Mora Curtis Browning

Happy 54th Birthday Daddy! 

Hope you can see how much we miss and love you. Not a day or hour goes by that your not thought of.  You are on our minds and in our hearts everywhere we go.

I love you!

Ann 

In memory of Daddy this vacation I got my 1st tattoo.

I remember the night before all of this unexpected thing happened...it was so fun..and absolutely the best night id ever have...no of course...we didnt do anything special...but my uncle...my best friend...was there with me..and im positive he still is...i can still feel his warmth when i gave him a hug...i can still hear his voice telling me he loves me...and the memory i will NEVER forget is when...before he left to go play pool with my daddy jay browning...i was drinkin coca-cola with peanuts in them and he looked at me and was saying a bunch of stuff...lol...then he asked if i was playing ball and i said of course..haha..and he looked at me the way he did...with those big beautiful eyes above his glasses staring me down like an angel...and he said " I cant wait to watch you play ball this year. "...after that he went, played pool, had the time of his life. Then that morning...my oldest sister traci woke me up and told me to wake up...uncle curtis was in a wreck...we was all up waiting...and i went in the room...looking for my mother...and she was bursting out in tears...screaming..."its all my fault...i shouldve stopped him and talking to him before he left!" "its all my fault!"..and i knew right then and there...my other daddy was gone...but as my sisters (keasha) poem says...

    I Will Not Say GoodBye

    This Is Not The End,

    So Ill Say..So Long For Now

    Until We Meet Again....

i miss you uncle curtis...dont ever think i never hear a sad song, or pray without you in my mind...cause i never forget......never......

-Shawna

Curtis we miss you so much!  Its been a year and its so unreal....  So many memories of you lookin' over those glasses at us an shakin' your head.  You cracked us up so many times and its so hard for us to do without you.  Butch has a big peice of his heart missing right now and it's because he misses you so much.  You were more than a  brother-in-law to him and me (you were like our brother)  and we were just getting to spend time with you again.  Its the happiest I have seen Butch in quite a while.  You and him working  on cars again, just like old times and makin' them work.  Fussin'  over who was right and what all it was goin' to take to make it work.  I hope you knew just how much you were loved by Butch and all of us.  I often catch him staring over at your resting place and I know he's remembering some special memory of you .  He worked on the road some today, so when people visit you, they will have an easier way up the hill.  I hope somehow you can see this.  See the love people felt for you.  Jay and Carol  worked so hard the other day to make everything look so good for you and Hick.  You would be so proud.

I saw Becky talking to you the other day and I figured she was asking for guidance once again from her daddy.  You were her sounding board and I sure wish you could somehow still give her advice.  If there's one thing I can say, it's that your girls loved their daddy.  They were all "DADDY'S GIRLS". 

I know that tickled you.

Curtis, you had a hard life, but you never let it get you down.  You just kept pluggin along & I know we have to do that too.  We have to keep on, goin' on.  Just hope you know that we'll keep doin' that, but that doesn't mean it will be without rememberin' you .  You'll always be a part of us  and our life, no matter what!  NO MATTER WHAT!!!

Daddy ..... a name I have said for 32 years with pride and comfort. For the last year I have missed your response to, "Daddy". I sometimes say your name just to hope I can hear you again.  I miss you so much.  Today marks a year...a year of hurt and pain like i have never known.  Last year at this time I was beside the road on 119 screaming and crying to GOD for this horrible nightmare to not be true. The calls I rec'd to be a dream.  I was getting ready for church when Tony May called. The call I will never forget.... "Mary Ann...... you need to meet your Daddy at Charleston, they are flying him out... he has been in a horrible wreck. He ask me to come call his girl, that you would no what to do." I immediatley left the house and headed for Charleston, when I got there somebody called and said go to Logan. I headed to logan only to make it a few moments when Wanda called me, to pull over, stop driving...I knew then it was not favorable news.  I sat there heart broken.  Not really sure what to do. I knew I had to pull myself tegether! Daddy said I would know what to do.  I knew I had to get to my sisters. Jenny in PA somewhere for a trip and Becky in Gilbert and probably out of her mind.  I am so thankful for my sisters in Christ who drove me to Gilbert that day and all my coworkers/best friends who stayed on the phone and cried with me while I waited for my ride.  I should have went home that Saturday!

I hope Daddy knows how hard I fought for him.  How hard his brothers, friends and family all stood up for him and tried to see that justice was delivered in the whole situation.  Daddy was a good man...a great daddy and friend beyond need.  To be taken away from us so soon, so horribly. Daddy i am so sorry for all this...for the pain you must have known that morning and the fear. And if I know my Daddy at all in those last moments he was worried about his girls.

I have tried Daddy..to be strong and a role model for the twins. 

I sit here this Sunday morning, so thankful for your brothers. They where here this weekend and just their presence makes me feel like you are near.  Terry Lee has always been a father figure to me and Wanda like a parent too....I try to look at the postiives...I still have them.

Our hearts are broken, and the tears and hurt will never fade.  Not with time not with memories...it will never end.  Not a day goes by that I don't think of you.  I hold on to all the times we shared together. 

It has been a year but the brokeness is and pain is still as sharp as it was that Sunday a year ago.

And for those of you who visit this site PLEASE leave your memories and thoughts.  You are not causing any more pain. Yeah we cry when we read this cause Daddy isn't here but it gives us peace and joy to read the stories of his life.  After I read this stuff and have my moment, when it's all over I do feel somewhat better.  I want to read about the times he has shared for each of us, the times he made us laugh or times spent together.  I look at the book Sue gave me daily.  I can't imagine a day not looking at it.  I will never let go. I will never forget. Daddy was my best friend and I have to have these things to hold on to. 

Missing you always Daddy!

~Ann~

Another year has come and gone yet it feels like yesterday when I received that call that you had been in an accident. It is so hard to believe that you are really gone but, I remember that morning all too well.

It was Sunday and you had just left Jay and Carols on your way to go home and take hunter to Sunday School.

When I received the call that morning that you had been in an accident I didn't have time at the moment to panic. I immediately called Butch to get on his scanner to see what he could find out. We didn't know where you were.

We finally decided to start searching so Butch went toward your house and I went to Justice. Supposedly Justice area was where your accident was.

After having no luck, I called the fire dept. and they said out of Gilbert toward the apartments.  Jumping in my truck in houseshoes and pj's I flew through Gilbert.

When I arrived close to the accident I could see your little car, traffic was slowing and Ricky H. stopped me and took my and he said, "he is gone".

Those words were like a knife in my heart. You see you were more than a brother in law to me and Butch, you were like a brother.

Diamond Carter was there and said he had prayed, he also talked about what a good man you were as well as all the boys.

He said he hated this happened to such a wonderful family.

They had already placed you in the ambulance and wouldn't let me see you.

So I followed the ambulance, Diamond was behind and then me. I followed it to the Fire Dept but, they still would not let me see you.

The hard part was yet to come...calling Terry and DG at the car show (the same one they are at right now) and calling your mom and dad. Thank God Sue was there to take the call.

Sometimes I sat and think about those funny little things you would always say .

I will never forget taking you to make your drivers license and the many nights you stayed at out house watching tv.

Those hot ham and cheese sandwiches I would make for you and how you loved them.

Terry would  go to work and I had to go to bed early in order to get up for work.  I would say " just turn off the tv and lock the door when you leave".

Little did I know that you and my sister were doing some heavy courting, you never said a thing.

Seems like you always had bad luck with women...but, you got some beautiful children out of it.

Just doesn't seem fair...going through the cancer, the treatments and all the other things who would have thought your life would end so soon in such a tragic

way.

We sure miss you everyday. You are in our thoughts all the time.

We loved you very much, sometimes we are guilty of not telling each other how we feel while they are still with us.

Your mom never hesitated about that.

 I  can't remember how many times she would say" I don't know why I love my boys so much."

How fortunate you were to have been loved so much by your family.

Your friends also loved you more than you will ever know.

Time will go on but, we will never forget you.

Our prayer is that you are with your mom looking down on us.

Love, Wanda