In my thought even more than usual today my darling boy.
Your last text to us.Your rush home for your Glastonbury tickets. Your excitement on msn at getting them `I have my tickets in my hand'. You last message on msn..`I'll be back later.'
Wish you could be back later x
Love you
Mum
Your last fun trip / Mum
This weekend three years ago you had a weekend in London with a friend.. went to see Ben Folds and did a bit of sight seeing. Life was good......
Miss you!
Mum
May 17th 2008 / John (uncle)
Haven`t written on here for a while joel so i though i`d tell you that our crappy old football club has reached the FA CUP final, i know i cant believe it either
Grandad , uncle Paul , me and your cousin Will are as you can imagine over the moon
We had a great day at wembley with your brother Jack and cousins Dan and Brad for the semi finals and i know your mum and dad and grandma and grandad enjoyed it live on the telly back home
But i know i and all the rest of the family would give it all away in a second to have you back with us
love you and miss you kidder
uncle john
Grand Slam / Mum (Mum)
Hey Joel
Not that it was any big thing to you but Wales COULD do another Grand Slam tomorrow!!!!! Dad is very excited about it.
Whether they do or they don't I'll be thinking of the last Grand Slam 3 years ago March 19th 2005, Joshie's 21st birthday.. us all together in the pub.. and Danielle with us for the first time. Something that will never happen again.
It was the last time we were all out together as a family and I will be thinking of you lots tomorrow. Love you Joel
Mum
Grand Slam / Mum (Mum)
Hey Joel
Not that it was any big thing to you but Wales COULD do another Grand Slam tomorrow!!!!! Dad is very excited about it.
Whether they do or they don't I'll be thinking of the last Grand Slam 3 years ago March 19th 2005, Joshie's 21st birthday.. us all together in the pub.. and Danielle with us for the first time. Something that will never happen again.
It was the last time we were all out together as a family and I will be thinking of you lots tomorrow. Love you Joel
Mum
Hey Joel. / Evelyn Parry (Friend) Hi there I only new you for a short time sadly you passed not long after we met. I was traveling at the time and every so often you sent me a text. I was in Croatia when I got the text saying you had your Glastonbury tickets in your hand. We met briefly in Aberystwyth and I was impressed at how fondly you spoke of your family it was clear you loved them all very much. You were passionate about everything from pizza to Sci fi. I can imagine you now sitting with the likes of Plato debating the afterlife.
I traveled a lot more after you died in fact I went all around the world and in a small way you were with me because I often imagined you looking down, chuckling at me and I spoke to you in my head. Sadly I never got another text or im from you. I was sad at your leaving this place so soon and my heart ached for your family. In a short time you touched many hearts Joel.
Occasionally You Cross My Mind / Anon Anon I remember when I first heard about your passing I was shocked and for the first time ever utterly speechless.
Every now and then it crosses my mind that it might not actually be true and that i'll bump to you and we'll be shocked how much both of us have changed in some ways and how in some ways not at all in the years that have passed since we last saw each other.
But obviously that will never happen.
I wish I'd been a better a friend over the years I knew you.
You will never be forgotten.
Rest In Peace my friend.
Missing you / Mum Missing you so much Joel, still waiting to wake up one morning from this nightmare and sighing with relief that this terrible bad dream is over.
Someone said to me this week that he would die if any of his children died. And thats how I feel some days....dead and a bit crazy. Cos this is crazy, how can you be gone? Slipped away in the night with out the chance to fight or say goodbye.
Your life went passed in the blink of an eye.... I feel like I almost missed it. We were just getting to know each other as individuals and then you were gone.
Want you back now son..its been to long .....you could chat my head off for hours I promise I wouldn't get bored.
Love you Joel.
Mum
Christmas Eve 2007 / Grandma And Grandad (Grandparents) This is the third Christmas without you. We miss you every day joel What we wouldn't give to have you here with us, having one of those amazing discussions, when you always vehemently stressed your points of view and opinions. You are never far from our thoughts and will always be remembered by us. Your loving Grandparents.
With love / Jane And Russ
With love to all our family and to all those who remember Joel at Christmas time.
Our 3rd Christmas without Joel and we miss him more and more as time goes on. Holding on to memories of Christmas past when he was here with us. So many special times x Love to you all.
Wish You Were Here / Martyn Rogers (cousin)
I remember christmas parties at uncle martyn's when i was a kid, all the older kids sitting in the bedrooms talking about things teenagers do, i remember joel passed out on the floor.......
Its never easy losing someone from your life, and it will never stop hurting. The thing is, though its a worn out expression, Joel wouldnt want people to be upset. If he was here hed be watching his films, or chillin with some Floyd, he wouldnt be stressing thats for sure.
I wish id gotten to know him a bit better than i did. I love Pink Floyd myself, and i must say if joel was still here i would probably have hooked up with him at some point to jam and chill out on the grass....
When i saw this page again i thought about how easy it was for me to detatch myself, because it was a while ago and he was a bit older so i never really got the chance to talk to him all that much, but for his parents, his brothers, his friends...i cant imagine the agony it must have caused. Just know that Joel would want you to be happy and so does everyone else. My deepest condolences over the loss of a great man and a great mind.
we share your loss / Julie McGregor (visitor to site )Read >>
we share your loss / Julie McGregor (visitor to site )
To Joel's parents and brother Josh, I have just discovered your website. What a great idea. We lost our son, also Joel to sudden death only 2 months ago. He was only 18. We are struggling to know what to do as a memorial to our son. Your Joel and our Joel seem like such similar personalities and even share the name, and I am honoured to be able to share your thoughts and feelings on this website. I realise this is now what I would like to do to share my Joel's life with others. He was our resident IT guy who just knew everything so it will be a task, but I want to make him proud of me. Close
Happy Birthday Joel / Donna Hopton (Close Friend )Read >>
Happy Birthday Joel / Donna Hopton (Close Friend ) Happy Birthday Joel, Still miss not getting your random messages about the weather and our long conversations about random stuff to pass away my night shifts. Hope you are having fun where ever you are, if you ever get the chance drop down to see me, I promise not to scream!! Or send me a dream. Love always Donz x Close
Happy Birthday Joel 26 today / Granma And Granddad (Grandparents)Read >>
Happy Birthday Joel 26 today / Granma And Granddad (Grandparents)
Its just over 2 years since you left we think of you every day and miss you all the time. the significance of the trapped birds we set free and the vivid dream of you tells us that you are fine and in a happy place. physically you are not here , but you live constantly in our thoughts and are always in our hearts, never to be forgotten all our love grandma and granddad Close
Some more random thoughts from your nearly-sister-in-law / Danielle Rayner (Josh's girlfriend )Read >>
Some more random thoughts from your nearly-sister-in-law / Danielle Rayner (Josh's girlfriend )
Hi again Joel, what's up man? Lots of things recently have made me think of you. Like the epic bonfires we had a couple of weeks ago in our garden, they were amazing! Your entire family informs me that setting things on fire was a favourite pastime of yours... On a serious note, what I think about most days is the implications of you not being here. I never got to know you properly so I can't miss you but I think about the wider impact of your absence in the long term. You'd have been a wicked uncle. It's sad how my kids will miss out on such a wonderful, unique individual. Mad Uncle Joel!! With pockets full of sweets and loads of sci-fi DVDs. I hope if I do ever have kids there's a bit of you in them somewhere, whether it's your ginger hair or pyromania, I don't mind. The other thing I think about is the sheer damn unfairness of it all. How can some people live for years, making other people miserable, and yet some people with so much promise get their lives cut short before they ever really get a chance to shine and show the world everything that they're capable of achieving. You achieved loads in the time you were here, the huge numbers of people at your funeral proved how many lives you touched. But it makes me so sad for Josh and Jack that their kids will never have Mad Uncle Joel to tell them stories and watch sci-fi with them. It's always about the "what-ifs". That's what gets me every time. Your Mum talks about you flying through space and time in the TARDIS and that's a wonderful idea. Every time I hear the Doctor Who theme I think of you with a bit of sadness and then with a huge smile because being seen off to that music is the most hilariously insane, touching, fantastic and brilliant image I can think of. What a way to go!! Good on you man, and take care. Dan XXX
Joel Phone Home / Mum
Hey Joel xx Josh answered the phone at home when I rang today and for one 10th of a second I thought you had answered, for a faction of a seconded...I forgot you couldn't.
He sounded so like you!!!!! I can hear your voice in my head xxxx I will never forget how you sound xxx
ginger butterflies / Charlotte Collier Roberts (friend)Read >>
ginger butterflies / Charlotte Collier Roberts (friend)
Hello Joel, I really wish I could of come to see you off at Glasto. I'm glad you're resting somewhere you loved, and somewhere mystical too! But that was always so typical of you ;) When I read about the butterfly, It really made me smile, because I remember you saying how it would be interesting to be a butterfly. Then you said "But it would look wierd with my hair" I really hope I can go to the stone circle some time and have some wine and think of you. You will always be in the hearts and minds of the people you met. You were such a funny, interesting and genuinly nice guy, though some times Joel, you really annoyed me! Not in a malicious way, just the fact you talked so much:P Hope to meet up with you again..who knows what will happen after this life...be sure to keep a beer cold for me Charlfoo Close
2 years / Mum And Dad
Its two years today since you died unyet to us it feels like yesterday.
We still can't believe you are gone son. Still waiting to hear your voice saying `Coffee Dad?' or hear your laughter at 3am in the morning.
Longing to see you, yearning for you, need you back home with us.
We don't need any reminders of you as you are in our thoughts every minute of the day. We will love, miss and cry for you as long as either of us are breathing.
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