You are my friends.... I wasn't gonna say anything but I have to explain my just not being here. Our one kid up in Ga got out of ICU from diabetes Monday and other things when I get this phone call while talking to Jax Dem about the meetup. IGTNT we were discussing when IGTN most parents and grandparents dread. The cell kept ringing and Ikept ignoring when it just would not stop ringing.... It was my oldest grandchild's Mother. IGTN..our grandson in Georgia had walked on. Almost to the day we lost my husband's son the same way in 2010. The one in ICU was stable and the one grandchild I never worried about..hardly ever....was gone. 31, 4children and recently separated from his wife and lost his job. I won't post here how he died.... but this is what I know... The screaming inside hasn't stopped... the overwhelming sadness and all my people die at the end of the month.
We will be leaving for Ga. come tomorrow. I hurt for my kids, this was their big brother biolgically, and my son who is devistated and the Mother who calls me every mothers day and the former stepmom who was in his life a long time..My heart cries for those 4 children.
Anthony Lee “Pig” Thigpen, age 31, of Carrollton, Georgia passed away on October 27, 2015. He was born March 19, 1984 in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Cheryl Luke and Richard Anthony Thigpen. He loved fishing, Alabama football, and 4-wheel drives. He was a loving husband to Amanda Thigpen and is survived by parents, Cheryl Luke of Whitesburg and Richard Thigpen of Florida. He was the loving father of his four children: Hailey LeeAnn Thigpen, Toby Anthony Thigpen, Noah Lee Thigpen, and Annabella Skye Thigpen and is also survived by sisters and brothers, Candie Lawing, Brad Pender, Brandy Vaughan, Christopher Kato, and Elizabeth Kato; Maternal grandparents; Wallis & Melba Willis of Alabama and paternal grandparents, Jack & Amanda Kato of Florida. Funeral services will be conducted on Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 2:00 PM from Martin & Hightower Heritage Chapel with Pastor Michael Dunbar officiating. Those serving as pallbearers will be Eddie Jensen, Brad Pender, Denver Horn, Adam Lewis, Chris Lawing, Harmon Luke, Josh Garrett, and Jeremy Fisher. Interment will follow in West Georgia Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday, October 31, 2015 from 12:00 Noon until 4:00 PM. Messages of condolence may be sent to the family at www.martin-hightower.com. Martin & Hightower Heritage Chapel has charge of the arrangements.
Losing a child is horrible... Losing a grandchild is horrible as well...and when it is the first grandchild, it really tears your heart. You also grieve for your own child as well as the grandchild.
Just think of us at this time.. please. We have a long trip to Ga with watering eyes.