Garrett Scott Harris

Time has some how went by and time has brought us to heart break and joy. If you can see it that way. Your death has forever threw our lives in a spiral. The birth of your only child has brought us hope, love, joy and a reason to believe that your still here with us in a way. Gabby has filled my heart with so much love and I didn't think I could ever live again with out you here, you made that happen. You made sure I had her to hold on to, When I needed you most. There's not a day that she's with me that I don't speak your name "Daddy". She points you out in pictures and that just melts my heart, She will know you for the man you are... It breaks my heart that your not here with her, I don't understand why and might not never know. I know how much joy filled your heart when you knew that you were going to be a father.... I just don't understand why Gabby has to grow up with out you, I know that you would have taken care of her like a father should... she's your heart....I watch her and at some unexpected time a little gesture you've done comes out....What a moment. love you Son...Mom

Memories that's all that is left of our Son, Grandson, brother,Daddy, great grandson,cousin, nephew and friend,

    Garrett would always come in the house and say Mom it's your only Son, coming around the corner to the living room smiling and laughing, he would just brighten up your day no matter what. He enjoyed his life to the fullest as any young man would. He enjoyed his friends, he would fit into any crowd. Garrett was shy at times, He really liked the girls, He would fall hard for them... He liked the monster jam.. going to the flea markets, riding buggy's in the Wal-Mart parking lot. riding motorcycles. He would walk the creek for hours at a time fishing and enjoying  time to himself.

Garrett was always cutting up but when he did get mad he was mad. He had to work things out himself but he would talk to Curtis and I about things that was going on in his life he didn't sugar coat anything it was what it was. We would go fishing and that we enjoyed , no matter what Garrett fished with he brought them in a true fisherman.  Garrett worked various jobs, some he didn't like some he did.

If truth be known Garrett would have fished for a living. Before Garrett passed away he and his girlfriend at the time was expecting their first baby together, she was 2months pregnant when he passed away, Garrett was so happy and couldn't wait to be a Father and to see his baby born, Garrett passed away the morning of Feb 14,2007 after being up for 26 hours straight. his girlfriend was having complications that evening before and they were at the hospital all night. Garrett came in around 4 o'clock a.m. and got his car keys and a card for gas, We hugged each other and told each other we loved each other, He said that he was going home to get a shower and head to work. He came by and put Valentine's card in the mailbox because he forgot to give them to me to take to daycare for his girlfriends children that he loved a lot. I heard him pull up and pull off from the mailbox and go to work I smiled when I heard him out there, thinking how much he cared for them to do that. Garrett never made it to work he fell asleep at the wheel and hit a culvert causing him to be knocked unconscious and flipping 3 times and coming to rest on the roof of the car pinning him with his chin to chest causing his death. He smothered because he didn't know he couldn't breathe. We didn't know about Garrett passing away until 11:15 a.m. that awful morning, He passed away at 5:15 a.m. Our lives has never been the same since how could it. On Sept 16 2007 Garrett's daughter was born and what a joyful but sad day that was. mixed emotions ran high. Today she is 6 months old. She looks sooooo... much like Garrett it's unreal. He left us a precious gift. We love every moment we have with her. We love and miss Garrett terribly. We hope that we can make it through Garrett's death some days are really hard. We know we will never overcome Garrett's death and we hope that we can put our whole beings into telling Gabriella of her Daddy and the Man that loved her before she ever was born. Father's Day is coming up I know that also will be a rough day to  wake up to. Hopefully we will have the strength to carry on. Holidays are so tough on families but we need to try to do the best we can to honor our loved ones. We need to keep their memories alive. They will always live in our hearts and minds. Thank God for that hug and to be able to see my child that dreadful morning. Thank God for the close relationship we had, Thank God for my mother and grandmother that showed me how to love and that made it possible to love my children. My Grandmother is a very loving soul and very devoted to her family she is the rock that holds us together. That strength has poured into our hearts and made us who we are. I appreciate her deeply. Garrett also came from that same line of strength. He did what he thought was best for him and he lived that way all his life. I am so thankful that God gave me the loving opportunity to be Garrett's mother what precious memories I have. I will always be thankful for knowing and loving my child.

No words can be expressed in telling anyone how much a child's death has affected you as a parent. Everyone who my Son knew will always remember him. He left his memories with them. We will live until the day we are called home to be with the ones we love and miss and hopefully we can honor our loved ones by living like they would want us to. Hard days will be there and maybe we can think of all the happiness that our loved one brought to our lives. I love you Son and for you I will do my best to make it through the days to come....

                                            Love,

                                            Mom 

I just wanted to write a few thing about my son, Garrett grew up in a loving one parent home, It was just me and him for awhile, I couldn't believe I was blessed to have such a sweet, kind, unselfish child. He was loving to his granny, he loved to go to her house and play in the fish pond. He loved his granny more than anything and she loved him. She watched him while I worked, she would feed him Nilla Waffers and milk for a snack. Needless to say he loved them. She would lay him on the front porch on a quilt and let him enjoy nature. As Garrett got older he would attend school by my mom's and he would have to walk to school. So for his Christmas present I bought him his first bike and put it together for him, He was so excited that he got a bike to ride to school, Everyone that asked him about his bike he would make sure that they know that his Mom put it together for him, he was proud of his Mom for that.... Garrett would take time to tear the bike apart and put it back together. He really loved to fish. Garrett was very loved by all. We lived next to a

couple that also had a son his name was Lil Buick (Robert Taylor). Garrett and

Lil Buck grew to be really close friends(like brothers) There wasn't nothing they wouldn't do for each other. Robert's mom is my very best friend still today. Garrett was like a son to her too. He loved Debbie & Buck they were his second family.

They moved and we stayed behind, but the boys still got to see each other. Garrett was in Lil Buck's Wedding in December of 2006. Then Garrett passed away Feb.

14th 2007. His death has left our lives shattered. Garrett left behind a daughter

(her mother was 2 months pregnant) when Garrett passed. Gabriella is now 5

months old. We enjoy every moment with her. We can't wait to see her. Garrett

wanted to be a father so bad, but he never got the chance. Days come and they go

with out him here, we are forced to make it through the next day even though we feel we can't go on. Life is just a fog. He will never be forgotten for he left a part of him behind.

Dear,Garrett,

I think of you all the time and you stay on my mind and .I remember the time that you had us laughing so much we cry . And the time that you and Kayla played that game It had us wondering how she know the number that you had.It seem that she got it right all the time that we all played that game. And i remember the time that i had you walk me a cross the street at night time and you would make fun of me you would say that i was scared and i was. I♥U SO MUCH

I remember the first fishing trip Garrett and I took . We went with Uncle Brownie to Black Creek that ran behind my Mom's house in Middleburg. We walk there from my Mom's house and Uncle Brownie went down to the creek and sat on a pallet that was sitting by the water, He told Garrett to put the line down in the water by some stumps that he would catch a stump knocker. Uncle Brownie showed him how to do it. not long after he put the line in the water, Garrett got so excited when the fish bit his hook , He jerked up on the pole and brought the fish out of the water haulering Momma I caught a head knocker, Uncle Brownie and I never laughed so much. From then on I guess you could say Garrett was hooked on fishing..... Many a more fishing trips followed.