unexpected death in softball community...

I read TBR on a daily basis and read this off of the Chatham County's Schools website. I thought I would share it with the forum members on this board.

BTW, I enjoy reading TBR think it is a great informative site.


Cha cha, wondered if you or Earl knew this girl?

Reelturner

Public Relations & Community Schools Press Release

Fallen Friend Remembered by the Northwood Softball Team

Friendships that last a lifetime and life-changing lessons are often learned in school. Some are fun while others are sobering ones that are still able to make a positive impact on many. The Northwood Charger softball team had one such experience recently.

Kristy Mae Edwards, a student and softball player at Eastern Alamance High School, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, April 15. The tragic news of her death spread quickly to four of her former travel ball teammates who had played with Edwards for the North Carolina Rockers. Northwood softball coach Harvey Skinner noticed that some of his players seemed distraught at their Tuesday night game. Learning of what had happened to Edwards, he had Rocker royal blue ribbons ordered to be worn by all of the Northwood softball players during the next night’s game in support of his players and in memory of Edwards. She was remembered before the game with a short speech and a moment of silence.

Amazingly, Northwood scored twenty-nine runs that night, Edwards’ birth date and jersey number. A donation is also being made by the Northwood softball team to support the Kristy Edwards Softball Fund at Eastern Alamance.

Edwards’ former teammates attended her wake in Mebane. They gave a softball signed by the entire Northwood Charger team to the Edwards family. On the day of Edwards’ funeral, each of the girls retrieved her Rocker uniform and wore it to school along with a ribbon in memory of Kristy.

Steve Webster

04/28/2008

Bonlee Elementary

 

No, I didn't know Kristy, but we did hear about it. She played for Eastern Alamance and I believe the connection to the Northwood players was through travel ball.

 

Denver Dazzle Saddened !!!

The Denver Dazzle Organization is very saddened over the death of any kid, but it brings it home when it is one of our softball families..Our thoughts and prayers go out to this family at this very diificult time in their lives !!!


Denver Dazzle / Bobby Shoemaker & Girls

 

Great story reelturner!

The story still brings tears to the eyes of those that didn't even know Kristy, but the 29 runs being scored and coinciding with her day of birth & jersey number just gives you chills!

 

Believe

If you believe in God and Angels, and all that is good, U know why it happened. I know from what you have written you do believe, this is for others that may not have that feeling.

This young lady is playing softball on the most beautiful field ever! Prayers and thoughts go out to family and friends of this young lady from the Lady Blues family.

 

Kristy Mae Edwards

My name is Brooke wilkerson and i kristy was one of my best friends
i also go to eastern and i played softball there with her
ive known kristy since fifth grade and you may have heard thats she was one of the most happiest people you'll ever meet the kind of girl that is never mad and can make you laugh when you didnt even want to smile that she was the kind of girl that was never in a bad mood well unless you really knew her you would not even believe how true this was ...
at school on the softball field outside of school she was always sooo amazing she was the kind of person that everyone looked up to the girl that you knew you could go to even if you had no idea who she was.
It kills my now just to type this i hurts and not a day goes by that i dont think of her.. i can rember all the times that we would ride the bus home and when mr woody would drop her off she would try to run inside super fast to get me food befor her left :] or the time that we were science fair partners and i was at her house .. it was the night befor it was due also the night of the super bowl when the sea hawks played the steelers , well me and kristy hadn't even started on it soo we ran to the store and bought hershey kisses and did it on which one is most popular lol and well when i was in the bathroom kristy had spilt somthing on our board and well she also had ripped the paper off and stapled computer paper all over it.. it looked soooooo BAD!! but i didnt care her mom said we werent aloud to come down and watch the game until it was done .. so we wrote stuff down and stapled and glued what was left of the hershey kisses that we didnt eat.. lol it was sooooo funny i also rember when we were in the poetry slam and me caroline and brittany went to her house to practice and ended up sliding down her stair on huge pillows well at least until her dad got mad and made us stop,... but one thing im sure that the papers didnt tell you about her was she was a cat FREAK!! lol hehehe KRISTY loved cats she had three Twinkie_meme (which was hers) and Squirt who wasnt no bigger than your fist lol but she loved cat more than anybody i know idk i guess it was a New jersey thing ___ which is why they called her jersey she moved frm there in 5th grade ... i rember the day she came in our class i wasnt there but my other best frien tara called me and was like we have a new girl and then she told me she sat beside my boy friend Matt ... ohhh boy was i hott i was like man im going to beat her up just wait __ but when i got there i couldnt help but absolutly love her from the day i met her me and her were sooo Close.....ohh yeahhh another time we were doing a science project together on bubble and seeing what foods and substance would blow a bubble __ we had tried pickle juice peanutbutter all kinds of things and well we could finish because kristy kept eating all the peanutbutter so when she wasnt looking i poured bubbles in it lol she turned around to eat it when i wasnt looking and was like OMG!! what did you do lol it was hillarious sooo many memories that will be with me for the rest of my life you know my church goes on a mission trip to kentucky every year to leslie county and well this past year was my third year .. we got to telling our testimonies and i never really had one except for well i grew up in church the same old story but i got to telling about how when God took kristy from me i was sooooo MAD at him and it tested my faith not enough that i knew i wasnt a christian but it just made me stronger with god and i know that it was his will and that he had a reason for it ___ still to this day i know its bad to say but i wish god would have tooken someone else __ you know they always say you never know what you've got till its gone or _____ohh it'll never happen to me kind of thing" all you there who have never lost someone that close to you and i dont mean a grand parent of a parent i mean like a Friend your age you've grown up with_________ just never take anyone or anything for granit because once its gone you'll never get it back .... i still cry when people talk about her or about people dieing because i know i will never get past it but with everything in me i know that she is still her with me in my heart and that she always will be she will be my gaurdian angel and watch over me and i just want to say that i love you kristy mae Edwards more than you'll ever know ..... R.I.P K.M.E

 

I don't know you, Brooke, and I didn't know Kristy, but thank you so much for your post. I'm a grown man but your post has brought tears to my eyes. You both sound like wonderful girls. I'm sorry Kristy is not here but as long as you remember her and tell your story she will always be with us in spirit. You were very fortunate to have a friend like her and she was very fortunate to have a friend like you. Take care.

 

Hey Brooke, this is Padgett's Dad. For you other folks, my daughter, Padgett, is one of the Northwood players who played on the NC Rockers with Kristy. She still wears a rubber band on her wrist with Kristy's name and other stuff written on it. When one breaks she makes another.
The Rockers won some games and lost some games. But in the end, what these girls really achieved was the blessing of friendship that will last a life time, no matter how long or how short it may be.

 

Saddened !!

From a kids heart nothing else can be said !! Awesome Letter !!!

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