This memorial website was created in memory of our son Sean Kivlahan. He lost his battle with opiod addiction on 5/17/2017 and now our world will never be the same.
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Leave a tributeIt's your big 27! I miss you so much and you know that. Been teary eyed all week knowing your birthday was coming up and you wouldn't be here. We probably would have hit the buffet at POC and you would have done some damage, maybe played some poker or gone fishing and of course an ice cream or Publix cake (Publix please!). A day doesn't go by that I don't think of you. How much taller have you grown, or how you would be wearing your hair now, would you have become the next American ninja or professional poker player? What would you become? You have left an absence of laughter, funny slang sayings, nicknames, great hugs, huge smiles and unconditional love. Wonderful memories fill my head from the first time I saw you in the hospital nursery (moose!) to eating wings on Mother's Day. But knowing that your happy, in peace and watching over all of us everyday lessens my pain. Know that you are my sun, my moon and when I look at the stars I can feel you looking down and grinning at me and saying I got this Tia, its all good. Big hug and kiss sweetheart, I love you.
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![Rachel and Sean in LA](https://photo.forevermissed.com/lst/s/e/sean-patrick-kivlahan/p/0865918_235x235_83fb94.jpg)
![Sean at E](https://photo.forevermissed.com/lst/s/e/sean-patrick-kivlahan/p/0865917_235x235_83fb94.jpg)
![Sean and Home of Grace](https://photo.forevermissed.com/lst/s/e/sean-patrick-kivlahan/p/0865916_235x235_93e789.jpg)
![with Kiki](https://photo.forevermissed.com/lst/s/e/sean-patrick-kivlahan/p/0804892_235x235_4047e6.jpg)
![PGA work with Matt and Uncle Brian](https://photo.forevermissed.com/lst/s/e/sean-patrick-kivlahan/p/0804890_235x235_83fb94.jpg)
![PGA tour](https://photo.forevermissed.com/lst/s/e/sean-patrick-kivlahan/p/0804889_235x235_83fb94.jpg)
![studying for business](https://photo.forevermissed.com/lst/s/e/sean-patrick-kivlahan/p/0804888_235x235_83fb94.jpg)
![basketball injury](https://photo.forevermissed.com/lst/s/e/sean-patrick-kivlahan/p/0804884_235x235_83fb94.jpg)
![PGA work](https://photo.forevermissed.com/lst/s/e/sean-patrick-kivlahan/p/0804882_235x235_83fb94.jpg)
Thoughts about Sean's life
Sean loved us all so much. His love never waivered even when his demons tried to take him away. His family and friends loved him greatly in return offering all the love and support they could muster and forgiving him for sometimes causing pain, fear and sorrow in their lives. He was extremely smart. Especially with numbers. He was funny - the kind of person everyone loved to be around.
As a kid he had huge dimples and a face that lit up a room. He loved sports especially football and basketball and he excelled at both. He had an enormous appetite and a love of salads! He weighed 10 pounds, 11 ounces at birth so the hospitaly nurses nicknamed him "moose". He loved to give people nicknames like" momja" for mom and dad was "pa-squigly".
He loved his gradma and grandpa so much. Some of his favorite times were spent in Michigan with them at the lake. He loved to catch the large bass that lurked under the pontoon boats there. He sometimes made grandma cook them right after he caught them! He loved to play poker and wanted someday to try to play professionally.
He loved his sister, aunts and uncles and his cousins. He loved Kiki the cat and I often marveled at the gentle loving way he petted her- especially since he was sometimes like a bull in a china shop because he was so big and had those size 15 feet! Everyone was always in awe of his giant shoes.
In Mississippi at a place called Home of Grace he found religion and excepted God and Christ- this gave him hope and joy for the first time in a long while.
While living in Bradenton we were directed to Bayside Church by his aunt Kathleen. He attended eagerly and it was amazing to watch him pray so ferverently.