Dear friends and family of Dawn Ellen,

I just got the news today. (Feb. 6)  This news has hit me very hard.  I am sad that I can no longer send her my emails.

Dawn Ellen was given the best Christmas ever ... going home to heaven for her first heavenly Christmas.  Her absence during the Christmas season will make it that much harder for us who are left behind to live with.  I can picture her  in the heavenly horse pastures along with her dear friend Janet Gibney.

My fondest memories of her besides blue birds and camp fire girls is watching and admiring her artistic talents of drawing horses.  She was my dear and precious friend at Central School in Grand Rapids.  Dawn Ellen, I will miss you beyond words that I can express.  Please meet me at the pearly gates wen it is my turn to come home.  I am grateful that you are no longer in pain and are able to ride horses to your heart's content.

Thanks for being my  precious and faithful friend all these years.  Until we meet again,

Phyl Carlson Mueller

Dawn I was sad to hear of your passing :(  I hope you new adventure into heaven is an awesome one. You always had a smile and kind word for everyone in High School(Class of 1966). God Bless your beautiful children, family and friends at this time ....

I worked with your mother in the Emergency Dept.  I love her kind and gentle soul.  She was an awesome person to work along side when things were going crazy.  She was calm and quiet and helped settle the atomosphere.  I was sad to hear of her passing, but can't imagine her being limited by her body when she was so active.  Blessing to you both may your sadness be calmed by the remembrance of her life.

Marla Hall

I had the pleasure of meeting Dawn just two years ago and spent time sitting next to her at two weddings.  With just these two short encounters I realized what a warm, caring, loving, beautiful individual she was.  There will always be a special place in my heart for Dawn.  Her children have a wonderful guardian angel to whom to pray.  May they find comfort and peace during this very difficult time.

I worked with Dawn for many years in the ER and enjoyed every day that I spent with this fine and gentle soul. She was a wonderful colleague and a talented and kind nurse who everyone respected and appreciated. To learn that she had an incurable disease was heartbreaking for all us us fortunate enough to have known this wonderful woman. May she RIP knowing that her life made a difference to so many.               Bruce Fossum      

   Dawn was a neighbor of ours for many years.  She was a great personable, positive person, who took care of herself

   with exercise too!  I can still see her running around Silver Lake!  After she moved from our neighborhood we exchanged

   Christmas Holiday Cards for a number of years, upon her doing!  Her personable, caring, positive manner is a 

   wonderful legacy to leave!2

Dawn was such a wonderful coworker and friend to me while working in the emergency department. She had such a kind, giving, compassionate, gentle spirit.  I am grateful for the many shifts I worked along side her. Even as her body was failing, she was such a positive, encouraging person. What a blessing to have known her.  My sympathies to her family and friends who will certainly miss her. 

Kim

Jason and Marissa:

     I am so sad to learn, today, of your mother's illness and passing.  My daughter Sasha, too, was very sad when I told her.   Your mother and I spoke periodically, in depth, although not recently.   The last time she wrote to me, her words were of you both.   Whenever I am at the RAC, and sometimes when I look at the house that used to be hers and your home, next door to mine, I think of her.  I will remember her as a 'tall', gracious and caring presence.  

     Holding you both in my thoughts and prayers...

     Geraldine M. Sutcliffe, J.D.

I miss you so much, and I still can't quite believe you're gone. My Pisces birthday buddy, second mom, and caring friend. You welcomed me into your home and your family from the day I met you... almost 24 years ago now! I hope you always knew how much your guidance, friendship, and our Presto lunches meant to me.  Always smiling, always happy and encouraging, and so amazingly sweet and caring. I looked up to you so much, and I cherish the memories of all of our fun times. When I think of you now, all I picture is your huge smile, and that laugh that Jason was always bringing out in you.  And while I never got to tell you, I hope you knew that as I always felt a part of your family, Jason and Marissa will always be a part of ours, and we are here for anything that they need in the coming weeks and years.  You have two amazing kids who exemplify what an amazing person you were. Forever in our, hearts, we cherish your memory. 

Thinking if you, Jason and Marissa. I am certain that your mother greatly appreciated your support - especially through her illness. I hope the knowledge that you provided this essential care for her will give you some comfort as you get through these early days, weeks and months.

My thoughts and prayers for you.  I was a colleague of Dawn's in the ED.  She was a wonderful caring person who was an excellent nurse.  I admired her and am very thankful to have known her.There is a wonderful angel to look over us.  Deb

I am so sad to hear of Dawn's passing, but happy to know she is no longer limited by her disease. She was a wonderful person and I will always remember her. My deepest sympathy.

My condolences to Marissa and Jason and Sherlock. As their mother would say;

"thinking of you"

Their commitment to their mother was exemplary

Dawn knows I am thinking of her.

FTF

 Sad to hear about Dawn Ellen. She always had a twinkle in her bright blue eyes and dimples in her cheeks when she smiled and said Hi.Will miss my high school classmate.

Please be encouraged:

"And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more"

Revelation 21:4

The loss of a loved one is a very sad and heavy load to bare. May you find comfort at John 5:28,29 where it helps us to see that our loved ones can live again, it says "all those in the the memorial tombs will hear his (Jesus) voice and come out." As we await that wonderful day , may we continue to look to Jehovah God to comfort us because according to Psalms 46:1 he is "a help that is readily found in times of distress." Please accept my deepest sympathy.

Our condolences to Jason and Marissa as they mourn their mother.  They were a wonderful support to her in her last months.

I met Dawn when we were attending the University of Minnesota, Duluth.  Whenever I thought about Dawn, I pictured a gracious, lovely, gentle and caring person with a smile that was so inviting and I knew she was truly a person who valued her friends.  Though the span of time and distance occurred and I had not seen her for quite some time, I do know that Dawn was surrounded by loving family and friends.  God Bless.   With my most heartfelt sympathy,  Laurie Stein

Our heartfelt sympathy to all the family.