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This memorial website was created in the memory of our beautiful and beloved Daughter & Sister, Amberly Faith Wright. Sunrise in Virginia Beach, VA on Thursday, October 13, 1988, to Steven & Dana Wright and Sunset at the age of 18, on Friday, December 01, 2006. Surviving members of family, (mom & dad) Dana & Steven; and (brother) Korbin, (sister) Jadalyn & (brother) Ridge. We will love Amberly and remember her forever.
Amberly Faith came into the world born to us, Dana & Steven Wright on Thursday, October 13, 1988 at 8:31 p.m. in the evening. She was born 5/6 weeks early, weighing in at 4 lbs., 12 ozs., and 19 inches with a full head of hair, a very feisty, strong and beautiful baby girl. The night I had her, she was placed in the NICU center and I remember feeling pressed to go see her at 3am. I found her sedated in the incubator, on oxygen and an iv in her head. I told the nurse I hadn't even held her after I gave birth to her. Against the hospital policy, they picked her up and placed her in my arms. They stated that moment was one of her being most alert than she had been all night! She knew who her mother was and we bonded so instantly with one another! The hardest thing was to leave her in the hospital as I was released to go home, for two weeks. I went to see her everyday. I was so excited the day that she was able to come home.
From the moment I carried her, I fell in love with her. We were an inseparable pair since her birth! She didn't want anyone to hold her than me. Her first word was, "ma-ma". She was my hip baby. You could always find me holding her! She always felt secure with me. This stayed with her as she went to preschool and began kindergarten. When she was upset, the teacher's would ask her what was wrong and she would say she wanted me, her mom. As secure as she felt with me, I worried that much over her throughout her life. I couldn't believe how a child could open your heart up, in full bloom. I thank my first born for showing me that I could know how to love a child, unconditionally!
She amazed us, as she was an "A" student. She was a perfectionist.
I rememeber as a toddler, as we would read books together, she would turn the pages, and she liked to lick her thumb and turn each page of the book separately. Always thoughtful of others, helpful and a bright little girl. She was very sensitive, never did well with change. Early on, she fell in love with animals. Amberly enjoyed riding horses. She had a way with them. She could make horses that were stubborn, open up to her. (perhaps I use to think, because she was quite stubborn, they could understand one another the best. Takes one to know one). It was amazing to watch her with her tiny little self and how she wasn't the least bit of afraid when riding them, 20x's larger than herself! Amberly always seemed to be at peace when working with them.
Amberly was so proud of her brother, Korbin. She was 2 years old when her brother was born. They were paci buddies. I have a photo
of her holding him in her arms and they both had pacifiers in their mouths. You wouldn't see one without the other. Her brother was very active and Amberly would join in the fun, because she knew he would get into trouble for everything. (two fond memories I have are, her brother got into my fuschia fingernail polish and he and his sister decided to use it as body paint. There was nail polish everywhere! The second memory was that of, Amberly liked to scribble on the wall, since she knew that her brother got into trouble for everything she made a K on the wall beside her scribbling and told me that her brother did it. However, I knew she was school age and could write!) Her brother always loved being around her and would sneak in her room to lay at her door, asleep on the floor every night. They loved playing outside together and her brother was the busy one. Amberly was very responsible, anything that her brother would do, she would come get my attention and let me know if it was an emergency.
They grew up as best friends! They could always rely upon one another.
Amberly loved her baby sister, Jadalyn as they were 5 years apart. She felt some competition with another sister coming on the scene. Amberly held her sister the day we brought her home. I have home videos to prove it. She was quite the ma-ma over the siblings by now. She always liked being known for herself. Never took to having to share her belongings well with her sister. She felt as if she was giving away her identity. Her little sister loved hand me downs from her big sister, but Amberly didn't approve. No matter how out grown something was or that she didn't play with it anymore, it was hers. The three siblings all played together. They would do acts of a play and put on a show, pretend to be a band, pretend play and Amberly was the ma-ma, her brother the father and lil sis, the baby. As years grew, she became protective over her baby sister. Especially, when her sister's friends would be mean to her. Sher would take up for her. As her little sister got older, they began to connect more and do fun thing's together as sisters. Amberly would take her sister shopping, to eat and to the mall. Her lil sis, looked up to her so much and was very proud of her big sister. She was her idol.
Nine years later, her baby brother was born. She was not too happy to have another sibling, but in time she came to love her brother so much. How could she not, they had so much in common. They were preemie babies, sensitive, book worms, asthma buddies and were very much alike. She helped me change his diaper when he was a baby and always looked after and worried about him. For being nine years apart, they had an incredible bond and she was so proud of him. She couldn't wait to get her own place and let her little brother come stay with her and dote on him.
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We're So Sorry / Keinan (Ernie) And Chris Martin (Former Neighbor )
We're so very sorry to hear about Amberly. We'll always remember the 4th of July cookouts on Appalachian Ct. Take care and God bless.
Keinan, Chris, and Emily Martin
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Amberly's story with Mary Kay / Dana Wright (Mother)
My name is Dana Wright, I am a Women, Wife, Mother of 4 and Amberly F.A.I.T.H. Wright’s VOICE. I am about to tell you about a personal story that has been life changing and altering in my life.
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Mary Kay Fundraising for F.A.I.T.H. / Dana Wright (Mother)
June 21, 2009
Dear Family and Friends,
Many of you know that my family lost our oldest daughter and sister, Amberly FAITH Wright to a MVC, motor vehicle collision, December 1, 2006. Amberly originally wanted to be a Mary Kay consulta...
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GA LAWS FOR TEEN DRIVERS / Dana Wright (MOTHER)
Some helpful tips: Your child needs to be properly educated about driving. They need time to develop their driving skills. Below, I have listed the phases of licenses and helpful GA state guidelines, that teens will need. For additional informati...
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Amberly's story for Mary Kay / Dana Wright (MOTHER)
My name is Dana Wright, I am a Women, Wife, Mother of 4 and Amberly F.A.I.T.H. Wright’s VOICE. I am about to tell you about a personal story that has been life changing and altering in my life.
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April 1, Calendar Court Date / Dana Wright (mother) Read >> |
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Worldwide Candle Lighting Remembrance Ceremony / Dana Wright (MOTHER) Read >> |
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Candle Lighting Memorial Ceremony, 12/6/2008 / Dana Wright (Mother) Read >> |
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Amberly Faith's Awareness of Tragedies to Teen Driver's
Amberly's life ended all too soon. She had rekindeled a friendship with a friend she formerly attended high school with a week previously. He introduced himself to us and appeared clean-cut and nice. We were told that he was 19 years old. On November 25, 2006, she innocently went out to a movie with him. As her curfew approached, we grew worried that she hadn't contacted us; as she knew to let us know she would be late. My son text messaged her and said to hurry home, she replied, saying "they were on their way and had dropped two other teens off, which took longer than they expected." More time went by and my husband received a phone call from the boy that there had been an accident and to go to the hospital. As we arrived, they had not seen the ambulance arrive with her yet. We waited which seemed like forever. We were met by a pastor, which scared us. We thought she was deceased. Later they transported her to the neuroscience center and we were brought in to identify her as our child. At seeing what I didn't recognize to be my daughter in the hospital bed, she didn't appear to be the child I knew. I was trying to find something on her that would resemble that she was my child. In not being able to distinguish it was her, I looked up at her hair (which she was a brunette and had blonde highlights) and then it hit me, that this was my daughter. We told the hospital officials that she was our child. They told us they had to work on her and get her stabilized before we could come back to visit her. Finally, we were able to go back to see her and she was hooked up to tubes everywhere and monitors and in a comma. The trauma doctor met with us to let us know this was a serious life-threatening accident. She was in a trauma comma due to the impact of the collision.
What we came to know of the driver was that he was 17, instead of 19! The driver that caused the vehicle collison, drove recklessly and was speeding, when he lost control of his vehicle. The vehicle sped off of the road and T-boned the front passengers side into a utility pole. My daughter, Amberly was the passenger on that side of the vehicle and took the brunt of the vehicle's total impact. Which placed her in an immediate comma at impact of the collision. As the emergency team arrived they had to extracate her from the vehicle as she was trapped inside of it and transported her to the hospital.
The driver of the vehicle was arrested at the scene of the accident for possession of marijuana and taken in custody. He was able to get out of
jail on bond. My daughter remained in the hospital for 6 days and unconscience. On the 7th day we ran into severe brain swelling and they couldn't release the pressure in her brain. As a result of having recieved too much irreperable damage to her brain, she died. As she was deceased, the young man was arrested and charged with homicide in the first degree, failure to drive within a single lane, speeding, reckless driving, two counts of violation of driver's license restricitons (prohibited to drive past a curfew of 12amto 6 am, and during six months of issuance of the license, driver is not allowed to have a passenger under the age 21 or not being an immediate family member, in the vehicle), driving on the wrong side of the roadway, and for possession of marijuana. The driver was able to post bond and has been out of jail and awaiting a trial.
My mission as her mother is to be her voice. I am dedicating myself to public speaking about Awareness in Tragedies and Teen Driver's. I currently am in the process of establishing a website in this cause. I took up selling Mary Kay products to raise money to donate for the cause. (Amberly had wanted to sell MK as a job along with attending college) and I am involved in an online grief group, griefhaven.org (which supports parent's who have lost a child and established a chat line available for people to talk and find comfort and support, in talking amongst others). I currently attend church grief groups and family counseling.
A few organizations I'd like to share with you are:
Griefhaven
Susan Whitmore
(Online support group)
Griefhaven.org
Brakes for Brett
Michael Karlin
(Safety Issue's of Teen Driver's)
Brakes for brett.org
18664RTEENS
Debbie
(Teen driver bumper stickers to alert other driver's of awareness of teen drivers)
Debbie@18664rteens.com
It Won't Happen To Me
Bill Richardson
(Public speaking to teens to about tragedies & driving safely)
Itwonthappentome.org
Grief Book List:
*A Time To Grief
Author, Carol Staudacher
*A Journey Through Grief
Author, Alla ReneeBozarth, Ph. D.
*How to Survive the Loss of a Child
Author, Catherine M. Sanders, Ph. D.
Amberly leaves behind three sibling's, 16, 13 and 9 years of age. Upon my oldest daughter's death, we seeked family counseling within a month to help our family deal with this void.
I feel very strongly about seeking help (support groups and counseling), as immediately as you can. It will help you to see the road of grief and help you deal with and be aware of the stages. You will be on the road to healing faster with a good support group. (which doesn't mean you will forget the person you lost).
There are many things you can do to give meaning to their life. A memory website is a good place to memoralize them. Establishing a personal webpage with your cause. Join a cause to be active in and raise awareness about your cause. A united voice speaks louder in educating about the purpose. Public speaking and helping head a grief group are great sources of helping others and continuing to heal within yourself and heal at the same time.
RAISING AWARENESS OF TEEN TRAGEDIES & SAFE DRIVING
MaryKay.com/danawright
Anyone that uses Mary Kay products and purchases from me, the money accrued is donated to my cause to raise awareness about Teen Tragedies and Driving Safely. I will be establishing a site for my cause and I will donate funds to further help other organizations. Which will help educate and support others needing our help. We all walk together to help one another!
Thank you in advance,
Dana H. Wright
Amberly's MOM
To my Family, Friends and Clients,
Thank you for your constant support of us and for coming to our rescue throughout this crisis. We appreciate your constant love and support of our family. Words can't express the comfort it is to know I have a friend in each of you and have been able to rely on your help!
Love,
The Wright Family,
Dana & Steven, "Amberly", Korbin, Jadalyn & Ridge
THIS IS OUR STORY THAT WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A BOOK,
"IT WON'T HAPPEN TO ME", Bill Richardon
(The book features stories of teens lives that were lost in auto accidents)
Presentations about this purpose, educates teens & their parents of the awareness of proper condut and responsibilites, for teen drivers. His guest speakers are parents of victims, surviving victims, friends or driver that caused the incident.
Bill@itwonthappentome.org
(OUR STORY)
As Amberly Faith Wright's parents, we always worried about her! She was our first born. Life didn't begin easy for her, as she was born a preemie, 5
weeks early and 4lbs. at birth. She was a fighter in many ways throughout her life of 18 years.
Amberly was stunningly beautiful, had a way with horses, a talented singer, writer of poetry and a perfectionist. She touched many peoples lives all around her. She was wonderful with children, they all looked up to her. Found her religious faith, 4 weeks prior to her passing. She was instantly accepted and connected with a college ministry. Amberly excelled in college, and dreamed of owning her own business.
As a child, Amberly exhibited being passive, sensitive and one of delicate
nature. I called her the golden child, she was the most well behaved and loyal child. I fell in love with her the moment I laid my eyes on her! When I had her, I knew that I wanted to be front and center in her life. My desire was to stay home and be a hands on mother. I never missed a beat of her life.
As her family, we couldn't have been more aware, active or involved in her
life. We were always there for her and Amberly knew that she could count on us for anything! Her older brother, Korbin was more than a sibling; they were friends.
The younger sister, Jadalyn looked up to her sister, Amberly as a role model, confidant, mentor and idolized her big sister very much.
Amberly was very mothering and protective to her youngest brother, Ridge. She was Gods gift to us!
The night of her accident, I knew WHO (person) she was with, WHERE(place) she was going to be, WHAT (plans) she was doing and WHEN (time) she would return home. WHAT I didn't know was DECEPTION
would encounter me. The driver deceived me, about his age. He should never have allowed my daughter to enter the vehicle with him. He had
the second phase of his license, class D. (no one under age 21 should have ridden in the vehicle with him). Speed, distraction
and inexperience, caused him to loose control and hit a utility pole. They
impacted on the front passenger side. Amberly wore her seat belt. The air
bags didn't eject, as the vehicle only had front air bags.
Being CAREFUL parents, we made the decision to have Amberly refrain from driving until she turned 18 years old. I always FEARED this very situation would happen to our family. As parents we agreed that under the age of 18, was too young for teens to have the responsibility of driving.
The facts you need to know are, that your child needs to be properly educated about driving. They need TIME to develop their skills of driving. We were just entering the stage that Amberly would learn to drive. Therefore, I wasn't educated enough on the stages of licenses for teens.
As a parent, you do everything within your power to protect your child, teach them and prepare them to be a viable person in their life. One mistake by this driver, and our family is now DEPRIVED of seeing the outcome of what Amberly worked hard to become.
I'm not letting you go
I don't care who knows
It's not happy
It's not our mistakes
They're everywhere
Sometimes its hard to carry on
Sometimes its hard to be strong
Life doesn't always go our way
It will be hard to breathe everyday
Will you always be there for me
Hold my hand and help me through it.
written by Amberly, 2006
We love you and miss you!
Daughter of Dana & Steven
Sister of Korbin, Jadalyn & Ridge Wright
I was chosen by Susan Whitmore, to write a comment for People Magazine, about Griefhaven. Griefhaven is an online grief website.
There is constant support, 24/7.
Griefhaven.org
Susan,
I was refered to GriefHaven, by Michael Karlin. I found Michael
Karlin's webiste, Brakes for Brett. I lost a child, from a motor vehicle
accident, 10 months ago. In talking to him just a few times, he encouraged me to seek the online grief group.
In the beginning of my loss, it took time for me to tune in and learn about GriefHaven. I think the moment I was accepting to reach out for help from GriefHaven, is when I found out that Michael Karlin had passed away. I reached out to your grief group to help me to continue to know how to deal with my tragedy and to find the proper help for my family.
Your support group has been there for me to seek comfort and advice
from others that are going down the same path. I have been able to post
comments and have been inspired to help others, as well. I appreciate
finding this network to share my experience and listen to others about their loss.
Many of us go to grief groups and counselors in the public. There are always times when I need help additionally and grief issues arise
outside of those sessions. I rely on GriefHaven for the extra support, needed.
Grief Haven has been a life preserve for me, in having the opportunity to
reach out for help at any time of the day and know that no matter what
question I ask, there is always someone that is willing to lend support and
advice to help you through your day. In time, I have seen how GriefHaven
has mirrored my exact personality, which has always been, being able to help others.
Supporting others who may experience a similar journey is therapeutic in the process of healing from loss. Importantly, you never know when you may be called upon to help the next person deal with a loss.
Thank you GriefHaven for helping me, not be alone in this journey. I
am truly touched Susan, by you sharing your wonderful gift of helping
others.
People uniting together to be a stronger voice, to help one
another......
Fondly, in memory of Michael Karlin!
Sincerely,
Dana H. Wright
of Suwanee, GA
Amberly Faith Wright's, MOM
(WEBSITE TO COME, UNDER DEVELOPMENT)
F.A.I.T.H.
(Family Awareness Involving Teen Hazards)
TRAGEDY PREVENTION IN TEEN DRIVERS
dwright387@charter.net
UP-COMING
FAITH & HOPE HAVEN
Teens-Grief Support Group
Dana & Jadalyn Hope Wright
dwright387@charter.net
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