Kenneth Jay Powell - Online Memorial Website

This weekend we celebrated your sister. Hard to believe she is now officially a Mrs!! You would be so proud of her and I truly feel you would approve of Cody. I watch him and it reminds me of how you were with me. Oh how I wish you were here to celebrate with them!!! Miss you. You will always have a piece of my heart. I can only imagine the conversations you and dad are now having. Lol.

Today I just got flooded with sweet memories of your freindship and our love. I miss you and still thank you for all the lessons in life you taught me. I cherish how strong I have become, you never let me just lay down and let people take advatage of me. You showed me how to fight for myself and how much I was truly worth. You did this for so many people. I am not sure if you know the great gift you had with bring out the best part of the people you met. You showed us all how to fight for what we truly love. I love and miss you Ken thank you for being a part of my life, I was truly blessed to have you in mine. xoxo  always my Loki

Miss you - sorry I've not been here in a while.  Love you so much and 8 years have gone by.  Every night I kiss your picture and tell you I love and miss you.  There are times I'm still angry with you.  Just because I miss you so damn much.  Mikala is a ROCK!  And a like you in a lot of ways while yet so different at the same time. 
Keep watch over her please.  She's going to need you later on. 
Kisses my son and my love and heart forever.

Remembering you today, and everyday always. 

Its hard to believe it has already been 6 years since you were taken from all of us. You would be so proud of your mom and how strong she has been through everything since you were taken. Also can you believe your sister is graduating this year!!!! Scary I know :) She is looking to go to college *fingers crossed UNCG* hehe. You would be ssooo proud of her and the amazing women she has become. Its funny how much she is a little peice of you and everyone else in the group all rolled into one. Especially Kristy. Oh lord lol :) Still missing you even though I know you are looking down on us with the best view in the house :) Love and miss yah.

thinking of you, often. Miss you, always.

Ok, so your 26th came and we celebrated with one of your many favorite dinners and carrot cake (Mikala found out she loves it too).  Miss you always, wish you were here and things were different; if wishes were money...
I talk to you regularly, but you know that and I feel you with me at lot.  You would be so proud of the ones you held dear for the way their lives are going.  They miss you and have been a GREAT support for Mikala and I. Thank you for including us in your lives and the lives of those you 'grew' up with. They are a constant in our lives and allow us to share their triumphs and heartbreaks. We all talk of you and remember you fondly, lovingly and sometimes with brutal honesty. Thank you again for introducing all of us so that we can honor your memory.  Love you as always...Less today than tomorrow.
Mom

Happy Birthday bro <3 it's hard to believe that you'd be 26 today lolz, it doesnt feel like that much time has passed.  Some days are harder than others, but I'm getting through it.  You'd be so proud of me. :) I'm in honors chorus, I'm in with the right crowd, I have a really great boyfriend (and don't you dare come haunt the earth for that >.> lolz) and I might get to go to Europe this summer to study in France, Italy, and Greece.  I still wish you were here, but I always will.  I love you <3

It's been a long time Ken since you've left and gone to heaven, I will never forget that day i got that terrible news, it was just like yesterday I can remember every single deatil as much as i try not to. I don't dwell on that one bad memory, for that the great ones overcome it. You Ken have taught me so many things in life. Taught me how to enjoy nature and actually see what it offers. How to enjoy life, and live a little (: We had so many great nights partying, oh and our beach trip with Alice and Chad. Ha... you refused to get in the water.. and your boots. How we made fun of you wearing boots on the beach. That was the first time I met your dad. He was so nice. I have to say as Im sure you already know, because I know your keeping an eye on us. Im not as close with your family as I wish I was and want to be. Your mom and I aren't that close but we do stay in touch. Your dad, your dad's helped me alot. We even attended a family reunion last year, and every year from here on out. (:  He loves seeing nicholai. Nicholai calls him paw paw powell. Im glad he's apart of his life.

I've been told your son looks just like you-- the only feature he has of me is my eyes. He's just like you, so hard headed and so determined. He's all boy and loves being outdoors and being adventrous. He keeps me on my toes that's for sure. Been in the hospital @ least 4 times. He busted his head on a bike pedal.. had to get stiches. Im sure you've would of been like that's my boy. (:  I can't believe he's about to be 5 and starting school. I wish you were here, but I know you watch over us, and you watch as your son growns. I have put away a few items for Nicholai (yep named him the name you picked out even though i wasn't so fond of it back then) It's grown on me for him to have as he gets older pictures, shirts, blankets, and your dad has gave him a bb gun which is away put up out of reach. Things that used to be yours.  It's hard to explain to him now.

I wanted you to know that your thinked about and very much missed and you will always have a place in my heart. And know that you still live on through your handsome son. RIP Ken. My snookie love your bookie.
This is your son last year when he turned 4. (:

Ken i know its been so long since we talked last... miss u terribly crying for u know .. just tbh you were my first love and you will always have a space in my heart.... miss you boy no matter what if i was crying or some 1 picked on me you were there to help me and make me smile....
i know now that you are protecting me and you are taking care of my lil angels in heaven watch over alexus and xandria they can be a bit sneeky when i see them in heaven playing just to say please help them through the steps in heaven ... i will always miss yall 3 .. 4ever one love always

                                                                 Shoshannah Jacobs

"Come stop you're crying

It'll be alright

Just take my hand

Hold it tight

I will protect you

From all around you

I will be here

Don't you cry..."

 

"You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Colins is my most loved and most hated song. I love it because it makes me think that you're singing to me, and telling me everything's gonna be okay, and I hate this song, because of the third verse...it makes me think that, if you were singing it to me, that you were lying, and that everything was just gonna come tumbling down harder than dominos...but, in realizing that...I think I'm getting better...

                     I will always love you, Ken.  No one can match up to you, ever.

Lil' Sis

 

Hi Ken. You probably wouldn't know who I am other than the girl who occasionaly came over to talk to Mikala. You are very missed. I'm sorry that I can't add more but I've always had problems with words. I hope you know that all these people who have written on this site and all the others who may not have only because they didn't know what to say or how to say it; that they all loved and still love you.

It's only been over two years and I can't remember your voice, or what it's like when you hug me, and if it weren't for pictures, I'd forget your face. I don't see you in my dreams anymore, though I think of you every day in some way.  I feel like the whole connection we had is fading, and that you're really starting to be gone.  I've even come home a few times after something good has happened at school, and waited for you to come home so I can tell you, but then I realize you're not coming back, and it kills me...I love you and I miss you.

 

Ken,

It has been a little over two years now and I think about you constantly I still can't believe your gone but i know you are watching down on all of us making sure nothing happens to us.  You should see your little angel he is getting so big now he looks just like you Ken!  I remember all those times we got in trouble for doing destructive things.  Thanksgiving is approaching and it isn't the same with out you KEN!  Well I'm going to go I'm tearing up now ; (

p.s.

watch over us and keep a close eye on us all especially your mom and Mikala they miss you!

Love you & miss you

~Ashley~

How can 2 years fly by and certian life experiences still feel like yesterday??? So many thoughs runing through my head the past few days, I can hear certian words and I automatically have a flash back to times when you were here. Like I heard a song and they were talking about "moonlight' and it automatically made me remeber the night I realized that their was something between you and me. It was the night when all of us girls and you and kevin were all laying on the trampoline the night after my 16th birthday. I remember looking at you with the moonlight shining down and memorizing your face. :) The good times. I still wish I could bring justice to your name. Apart of me wishes I could still call you touch you wake up from this dream. Don't get me wrong I love Craig with my whole heart but I miss my best friend the one even when we weren't dating I could talk to you about anything. lmao I even miss yelling at you for doing stupid shit lmao. The new Darius Rucker song reminds me of you. It states even though I left there is not a day that goes by that I do not think about it. Kenneth Jay Powell I love you and miss you. xoxox

I dream about you often and then I wake up crying.  Sometimes it's easier than other times to put aside the tears and straighten up.  You are always going somewhere in my dreams; leaving me.  I have finally decided no matter how bad the pain is when I awake, and it is really BAD sometimes, it (the pain) is worth being able to see, talk, and touch you even if it is a dream.  I know this is the only way I can see you right now, but I can always feel you around me.

You would be so proud of MIkala.  She has taken on a lot of responsibility in just the past two years.  Some of it I put on her, but the bulk she has just stepped up.  She writes as "deep" as you ever did and she misses you.  We talk about you sometimes; about how much we miss you; other times, funny things you said or did. 

Please help Nanny and Papa keep watch over her.  She has a long way yet to go.

 

That's it for now, my beloved son, see you in my dreams until I can feel you in my arms.

Mom

My brother,

I know that when I was first born, you didn't like me.  I know that Travis beat you.  I know of a lot of things that happened to you and me throughout our lives, but even after enduring all of that pain, you didn't back down.  You never stopped trying to give me a better life than what you had.  You tried to play the father, and it got on my nerves from time to time.  But in the end, before I left that very day you died, I just looked at you, and you were beautiful.  I wish you could read some of the things I've written, or see some of the drawings I've made (I'm waaaaaay better now).   I just want you to know that I love you, I miss you, and that you have become part of me.  I love you.

                                                           Your sister,

Mikala Powell        

Hello my angel!! I know you are up there being able to protect us all now. I love you and still miss you. There is a country song , yah I know eewww country that talks about if a person thinks of you and it says everyonce in a while she calls my name out loud. Last night I had a dream I picked up the phone to call you and you anwered. It was great. Any way enough babling from me. Happy 22nd Birthday sweetheart. I know you are getting thrown the best birthday party around xoxox

Well Ken it has been a year since you have become an angel and can finally watch over all your loved ones at once. I keep holding my head up high and "doing my thing" like you always told me to do, but sometimes it is just hard, I don't have my smart ass there any more pushing me. You pushed me to Greensboro to always reach for my dreams, and I still am. There are just times though I want to fall stop acting like everything is ok. And what makes me feel even worse is I feel like I sshould have already done this b/c I have Craig in my life and I wouldn't trade him in for the world. God you would love him, and that is amazing for you. I have come to the conculsion I am going to have to bring myself to counciling I guess I am not as strong as I thought I was. I wish I could get justice for what they did to you. But I don't know how!!!!!!!!!!Ken I love you and no matter how hard I try you will always have a piece of my heart. xoxox

You have always taught me to live out my dreams Ken. I am I found this wonderful guy. That I think you would actually approve of. And guess what we are going to get married. Yah I know Can you actually believe Ms Independent settling down. hehehe yah I know its hard to belive. You will always have a piece of my heart Kenneth Jay Powell but I hope you are up there happy for me and looking down at me wishing me the best. I know you are but I found thinking about me getting married kinda upsets me b/c I always pictured you would be there to watch me get married. My best friend there cheering me on and at the same time threating my new husband if he hurts me then you will come after him. Even though Criag would never hurt me. Ken I miss you and it is hard not having you here any more for my life changing events b/c you were there for me through soooo many of them. Damn you are the one who pushed me to be who I am today. I love you and miss you. One thing I do know when I get married you will have the best seat in the house!!! Love you kisses

Well, another Mother's Day is approaching and it will be so hard without Ken.  He made all of my Mother's Days special just because he loved me.  There is no greater love than that of a child and a mother.  I remember last Mother's Day.  He took me to see "An American Haunting" and out to eat Italian.  I remember when we were leaving the theater, I told him I had to use the restroom and he asked for my car keys, which I gave him.  When I got to the outside door of the theater, it's was raining very hard and people were standing there waiting for it to let up.  I didn't have to wait or get wet because Ken pulled up under the shelter and reached across and opened the door for me.  I remember telling him that I couldn't believe he was old enough to be driving me around.  We both laughed and told each other we loved each other.  I MISS YOU, KEN!  I know if you were here now, and even with no money, you would have found a way to make my Mother's Day 2007 very special.  Mikala is here with me and she will, with the help of your spirit, make this Mother's Day as special as it can be.  I LOVE YOU, SON!!!

~~MOM~~

Happy Easter Ken I can remember a few years. Yah one of those times we were fighting and you were actin all big and bad and I called your house to tell you and your mom Happy Easter. And your punk butt answered the phone asking what I wanted. And I said to wish you a happy Easter and you were like I know your not calling for me and I told you you were right I didn't want to talk to you I wanted to talk to your mom. You were soo mad at me. Sometimes I wish you were still here just to have one of our stupid little arguements just so a few weeks later we could get a big laugh out of it. :) I miss you Ken and love you.

Life is short, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance...

Ken was a spectacular person. He taught me that i didnt need to be doing all the things that i was in order to make a living. He taught me the meaning of respect. I remember nights when we would sit and play pool for hours. And he would play in his roller blades just to make him beating me that much worse... lol. He trained me in martial arts. Something i am still thankful for today. WE went through a lot together and I will always miss him. Ken, you will forever live on. You will never truly die for me.

~Jeremy~

This is to honor Kens life. I hope this page helps everyone that loves him. Kenneth Jay powell you are my first love. You comming into my life has given my life more meaning then you will ever know. I love you for all that you have given me and I will keep your memory alive as best as I can. Happy 21th Birthday my sweet love for you will always be cherished in my heart. xoxoxox