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This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Christie Sellers Willman, 29 years old, born on October 17, 1974, and passed away on January 28, 2004. We will remember her forever.
January 28
January 28
It’s hard to believe you’ve been gone for 20 years. There have been so many things that have changed since then. I would have loved to share them with you. LYLAS
October 16, 2023
October 16, 2023
Thinking of you on your birthday Bright Angel. Love you and missing you more as the years pass. Praying to feel your embrace again one day.
October 17, 2022
October 17, 2022
You’ve been on my mind a lot. I wish we were celebrating your birthday today. I really miss you. I always will. LYLAS
October 17, 2022
October 17, 2022
Another year passes and the memories remain just as vivid. Thinking of you on your special day and loving you as much as that first moment. Happy birthday my love.

Duane
October 17, 2021
October 17, 2021
Happy Birthday Christie. I’m missing you & Sophie today & every day. We should be celebrating today. There so much I’d like to tell you. Life just isn’t the same since you left us. The world is just not the same without you. LYLAS
October 17, 2021
October 17, 2021
Prayers and wishes of happiness for you my love on your 47th birthday. You're never far from my thoughts and will always have a place in my heart.

Always love,
Duane
January 28, 2021
January 28, 2021
Missing you a lot today but the memories still make me smile.

Love always,
Duane
October 17, 2020
October 17, 2020
Happy Birthday Christie. I still think of you & miss you every day. LYLAS
October 16, 2020
October 16, 2020
Christie,

Thinking of you today on you're forty-sixth birthday and remembering the time and love we shared. Walking through a slightly dimmer world without you still and holding onto the beauty of those memories.

Loving you always,
Duane
January 31, 2020
January 31, 2020
I’ve been missing you so much. Lots has happened over the last 6 months. You’d be happy to know I’m going to the ocean soon. Maybe it’ll heal me. I’d like to think part of you is there.
October 17, 2019
October 17, 2019
I wish we could be spending your 45th birthday together. We should be having Mexican food for dinner tonight, watching Beaches, & drinking mudslides. You are forever missed. LYLAS
October 16, 2019
October 16, 2019
Autumn always brings memories of us flooding back and the feelings that we shared. On your forty-fifth birthday I hope somewhere you remember me and can still feel the love I've carried for you since that time. Happy Birthday my angel, still here and missing you.

Forever Love,
Duane
September 12, 2019
September 12, 2019
I miss you every day, any time something good, bad, funny, or interesting happens, I want to call you. You made everything better. I miss you & I miss your daughter (name left out for her privacy). I loved you both. I missed watching her grow up. My life has been forever changed by knowing you, and by losing you. You were a bright light in a dark world. LYLAS
September 12, 2019
September 12, 2019
First to the person who created this page, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I went to the University of Kentucky with Christie. I first met her in a chemistry class. I was drawn to her from the first by that smile. Ahhh... it would light up a room . Over the next 3 years her and I became very close. She was my pal my buddy I was her shoulder. The biggest mistake of my life was not telling her I loved her. We lost contact in 98. I have searched for her ever since. Until I stumbled across this page. It is hard to believe she is gone and the world is a darker place for her passing. To her husband; take care of her legacy. She was without doubt one of the most wonderful, kind, and loving women I have ever had the privilege of knowing. Chriss I will forever mourn you.
October 18, 2018
October 18, 2018
Thinking of you especially today, your birthday. It’s hard to believe you’ve been gone so long. Thank you for being my best friend, and sister. You were there for me when no one else was. A beautiful heart, too good for this world. LYLAS
October 17, 2018
October 17, 2018
Thinking of you on your birthday. Sometimes I wander where I would be today if it weren't for sharing a moment of my life with you. A day never goes by without fond memories of our time together and just how much that meant to me and still does. Always loving you and forever missing that smile.
August 11, 2018
August 11, 2018
Twenty-four years since that first night. Miss you my love.
October 17, 2017
October 17, 2017
It felt like Springtime on this February morning
In a courtyard birds were singing your praise
I'm still recalling things you said to make me feel
All right I carry them with me today now

[Chorus]
As I lay me down to sleep this I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away I'll whisper your name
Into the sky, and I will wake up happy

I wonder why I feel so high
Though I am not above the sorrow
Till you call my name and it sounds like church bells
Or the whistle of a train on a Summer evening
I went to meet you barefoot, barely breathing

[Chorus:Repeat x2]

It's not too near for me like a flower I need the rain
Thought it's not clear to me every season has its change
And I will see you when the sun comes out again

[Chorus]

And I wait for and I wait for, and I wait for
When the sun comes out again
When the sun comes out again
When the sun comes out, when the sun comes out
When the sun comes out again
And we gotta keep holding on
We gotta keep holding on, we gotta keep holding on
I will wake up happy

Today you would have been 43 like me,and I still love you the same as I have for twenty-three years. Missing you, and always remembering,

Duane
October 17, 2017
October 17, 2017
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance
I hope you dance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'
Lovin' might be a mistake, but it's worth makin'
Don't let some Hellbent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin' out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance (Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance

I hope you dance (Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder)
I hope you dance (Where those years have gone?)

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

Dance

I hope you dance
I hope you dance (Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance (Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder?)
October 17, 2017
October 17, 2017
Dear Christie,
I think of you every day. You’re the best friend I’ve ever had, and I’ll miss you always. Your birthday is always sad. Today I will celebrate your life. I’m going to make gumbo, listen to Sarah McLaughlin, and recall memories of our friendship, but we should be celebrating together. So much pain. I miss you. You were an exceptional person with a beauty no one could match. A kind soul. It’s hard to believe you’ve been gone so long, and much too soon. The world lost so much when we lost you. So much has changed. I wish I could still call and talk with you about everything like we used to. I miss Sophia too. When we lost you, I lost her too. I love her so much. I want her to be happy. Your family was like my family. I miss you all. Happy Birthday. LYLAS
October 17, 2016
October 17, 2016
Happy 42nd Birthday Christie. I miss you every day. You truly were too good for this world. LYLAS
October 17, 2016
October 17, 2016
Happy 42nd birthday. Miss you everyday and you are forever in my heart and in my thoughts. My love for you goes on bright angel.

Always remembering,
Duane

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January 28
January 28
It’s hard to believe you’ve been gone for 20 years. There have been so many things that have changed since then. I would have loved to share them with you. LYLAS
October 16, 2023
October 16, 2023
Thinking of you on your birthday Bright Angel. Love you and missing you more as the years pass. Praying to feel your embrace again one day.
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