This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Brandi Noel Ogburn who was born in North Carolina on October 3, 1978 and passed away on November 21, 1998 at the age of 20. We will love and remember her forever.

Merry Christmas, Brandi!!  We know you are spending Christmas with Jesus and you are happy.  Everyone is rushing around busy here trying to get gifts together for each other but we haven't forgotten you. We still see things in the store we would like to buy for you.  Sometimes we almost pick it up and buy it.  We know you are happy and we can't wait to see you one day.  Until then we will keep praying because we know you hear our prayers.  We love you and always  will. We will never forget you and your beautiful smile.  You are forever in our hearts!!  


                           


Listen, gentle people, and hear my truest needs......

I hear you stumbling for words. Relax.
There are no words...
I hear you remembering a funny story about my loved one and looking embarrassed because you are laughing.
Share with me. Let me laugh.
It gives me something to hold on to in the middle of the night when I feel only pain.
Be your happy self....and let me be me.
On days when I can laugh, I will.
On days when I can speak of my loved one, I need you to share my memories...
You don't have to give me answers, for I will learn to live without them.
You don't have to pretend my loved one never existed, thinking I will forget if you do.
Let me speak her name, and you speak it too.
She is always there, the one I love so deeply, always a part of who I am.
If you take that from me, I will be less than who I am.
- Jacqueline L. Rogers 





What My Child Has Taught Me

I’ve learned that you can keep going long after you think you can’t.
I’ve learned that learning to forgive takes a lot of practice.
I’ve learned that friends can become strangers and strangers can become friends.
I’ve learned that ignorance isn’t an excuse for the lack of compassion.
I’ve learned that some people will never, ever “get it.”
I’ve learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
I’ve learned that your life can be changed in a matter of minutes.
I’ve learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
I’ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
I’ve learned that love isn’t measured by the amount of time you have with someone.
I’ve learned that some sorrow is so deep that it has no words.
But so is love.
I wish very much that you could understand, Understand my loss and my grief.  But I pray daily that you will never understand.  And to those of you who do, my heart aches with you…

                                                                           (March of Dimes)

     
IF YOU COULD SEE WHERE I HAVE GONE
If you could see where I have gone, the beauty of this place
And how if feels to know that you are home to see the Savior's face.
To wake in peace and know no fear, just joy beyond compare,
While still on earth you miss me yet, you wouldn't want me there
If you could see where I have gone.

If you could see where I have gone, had made the trip with me,
You'd know I didn't go alone, the Savior came with me,
When I awoke, He was by my side, and reached down His hand.
Said, "Hurry, you're going home to a grand and glorious land."
Don't worry over those you love, for I'm not just with you,
And don't you know with you at home, they'll long to be here, too?"

If you could see where I have gone, and see what I've been shown.
You'd never know another fear, or ever feel alone.
You'd marvel at the care of God, his hand of every life,
And realize He really cares, and bears with us each strife,
And that he weeps when one is lost, his heart is filled with pain.
But Oh! the joy! when one comes home, a child at home again.

If you could see where I have gone, could stay awhile with me
Could share the things that God has made to grace eternity.
But, no you couldn't ever leave, once heaven's joy you'd known,
You couldn't bear to walk earth's paths once heaven was your home.
If you could see where I have gone.

If you could see where I have gone, you'd know we'll meet someday.
And though I'm parted from you now, I am just away.
And now that I'm home with Him, secure in every way,
I'm waiting here at heaven's door to greet you some sweet day.

(Author Unknown)


 
Stairway To Heaven

Who You'd Be Today By Kenny Chesney
Sunny Days seem to Hurt the most.
I wear the pain like a heavy coat
I feel you everywhere I go.
I see your smile, I see your face.
I hear you laughin' in the rain.
I can't believe you're gone.
But death tore the pages all away.
God knows how I miss you,
All the hell I've been through,
Just knowin' no-one could take your place.
An' sometimes I wonder
Who you'd be today.
Would you see the world?
Would you chase your dreams?
Settle down with a family,
I wonder what would you name your babies?
Some days the sky's so blue
I feel like I can talk to you.
An' I know it might sound crazy.
It ain't fair, you died too young.
Like the story that had just begun,
But death tore the pages all away.
God know how I miss you.
All the hell that I've been through
Just knowin' no-one could take your place
An' sometimes I wonder,
Who you'd be today?
Today, Today, Today,
Today, Today, Today,
Sunny days seem to hurt the most.
I wear the pain like a heavy coat.
The only thing that gives me hope,
Is I know I'll see you again some day.
Someday, Someday, Someday.