Parents: Colleen Holmes (St. Pierre) “Momma” and Mike Holmes “Daddy”Siblings: Scott Holmes “My Gotty” Alicia Holmes “My Essie”
Grandparents: Carol and Luke St. Pierre and Tom and Connie Holmes
Parents: Colleen Holmes (St. Pierre) “Momma” and Mike Holmes “Daddy”
Siblings: Scott Holmes “My Gotty” Alicia Holmes “My Essie”
Grandparents: Carol and Luke St. Pierre and Tom and Connie Holmes
Story
Danny was diagnosed at the age of three with neuroblastoma. Danny was a fun loving always happy and focused child. He was determined to have a blast despite his disease.
He was and always will be our Little Boy Blue. We lost our precious Danny on April 30th 1997 one year to the day that he first went in the hospital.
Favorites:
Color: Everything always had to be blue (jeans preferred)
Nick / pet names : “little boy blue”, “Dan Dan”, “Dan the man”, “Little one”
Hospital staff : He loved all the nurses (Danny was a real ladies man), Terri ( in child life) and Tim (student nurse at the time), Ruth Bartley (ChildCan past Executive Director)
Camp Trillium staff : At Camp Trillium Danny found his best Friend … not a Counselor but a camper Courtney Kellar
Events / moments: “Grandma Can you put up the window my hair is getting in my eyes?”
Songs: “Hands up, Baby Hands up, Give me your heart give, give me your Heart, Give me give me”
Pets: Silver – he fed her food often
Past time/interests: Pitching a football at the intern’s heads, Toy Story, Space Jam
Traits: Defined “fighter” in the dictionary (12 weeks of chicken pox)
Books/cartoons" “I’ll love you forever.”, “How much do I love you?”
Child’s Wish (and Dreams for the Future)
“Danny want to see Cinderella and Pocahontas. He danced with Cinderella in the parade.”
Mom’s Wish and Dreams for the future
That no child or family every has to injure childhood cancer.
Mom’s Comments:
“I will love you forever, I will like you for always, until the end of time my Danny you will be.”,
“Little boy blue, go blow your horn, the sheep in the meadow, the cows in the corn, and where is my Dan who looks after the sheep. He’s under the hay stack finally at peace.”
“Losing my precious Danny taught me that life is too precious to sit and wait for what you want. He taught me that there is nothing too tough to injure“ love like you’ve never been hurt, work like you don’t need the money and above all else Dance like no one is watching.”
“Others say that I am strong. But it was Danny that was strong, I just held his hand.”
“It is terribly painfully that we lost Danny. But I would have rather had four short years to share with him then a life time without him.”
“My wish is that one day the words “your child has a tumor” will be stricken from any and all languages.”
“God bless the child that suffers”
“Right back at you BABE”