Suicide Prevention

MY VIEW: Help save a life by reaching out to our veterans

By Mary Jo Gibson

Kinderhook

First and foremost, I’d like to thank our men and women in uniform, our nation’s veterans, and their families for their service and heroic sacrifice to our country. As a co-chair of the Congressional Spouses for Suicide Prevention and Education and a spouse of a retired soldier, I’m taking the opportunity this Veterans Day to join the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in raising awareness of the problem of suicide among our active military, veterans, and their families.

Ariel Castro found dead in prison cell

Tribune staff and wire reports

6:19 a.m. CDT, September 4, 2013

CLEVELAND—

Ariel Castro, sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping, rape and beatings of three Cleveland women he held captive for years in his house, was found hanged in his prison cell Tuesday night, a state corrections official said.

The former school bus driver, who was under protective custody and isolated from other inmates at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio, was found dead at about 9:20 p.m. when prison staff were making their rounds, Rehabilitation and Correction Department spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said.

After prison medical personnel tried to resuscitate him, Castro, 53, was transferred to an area hospital and pronounced dead about 90 minutes later, she said.

Castro was sentenced on Aug. 1 to life plus 1,000 years in prison without the possibility of parole for abducting his three victims and keeping them imprisoned in the dungeon-like confines of his house, where they were starved, beaten and sexually assaulted for about a decade.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — It's been just four months since Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were found in the Seymour Avenue home of Ariel Castro.

Now, the swift-moving story that caught the attention of the world has taken another staggering turn. Castro, 53, was found dead in his prison cell Tuesday night at theCorrectional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio, south of Columbus.

Grace - a eulogy

Farewell Sweet Gracie 

June 5, 2012 at 7:45 am by Jim Letzelter

With the blessing of her parents, I am posting the eulogy I delivered yesterday. There’s no way to be prepared to write one for a 14-year-old girl, and this was difficult. I hope this in some ways helps those who knew Grace to heal, and for those who did not know her to get a sense of the person she was.

For Grace Antoinette Maney, August 20, 1997 – May 31, 2012

Jim Letzelter

Grace

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Grace Antoinette Maney

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Maney, Grace Antoinette EAST GREENBUSH Grace Antoinette Maney, 14, of East Greenbush died suddenly Thursday, May 31, 2012 at Albany Medical Center. Grace was born in Bellevue Hospital in Niskayuna. She was a ninth grader at Columbia High School and was a freshman on the varsity lacrosse team. She was an accomplished equestrian and loved Lake George and "being silly" with friends and family.

Today and Every Day

Love your children...and make them know it! 

Remind them often, talk with them daily, ask them, be nosy, hug them -  KNOW them!

Is too much better than not enough?