Danielle "Danni" Marie Craft

 To My Beautiful Danielle,

When you were born I received the most precious gift.

I willingly and lovingly wanted to provide for you a home where you felt safe and happy, a home built on a foundation of security, respect, and hope.

I wanted to be there to catch you when you fell, share your successes and encourage your dreams.

I wanted to be there to comfort your fears and share your laughter.

I have tried to help you to see the roses among the thorns in life and that they were there for you to pick.

I tried to earn and keep your treasured trust.

I loved and will continue to love being your mother,

And remember,as will I, if we need each other we are both just a thought away.

And yes my precious daughter, you have and will continue to have my unconditional love ♥

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She is loved by family & friends and missed dearly; a piece of her is with us always.

Danielle was a very talented young lady. She had a beautiful singing voice and would bring tears to your eyes when you heard her sing. She always talked about being on American Idol someday and I know that she would have definitely been a contender for the title!

 Danielle liked to sew and was quite good at it! She also liked to scrapbook; she secretly put together a scrapbook album for me (Mom), for my wedding. She also enjoyed making crafts and planting flowers.

Danielle was also an accomplished artist with a natural God given talent. She loved to draw fairies perhaps because they were as mystical as she was! As she entered high school she began talking about pursuing a career through her artwork. I know that whatever avenue she would have chosen, her artwork was certainly a reflection of her soul.

 Danielle was naturally beautiful but often liked to paint on different masks according to her mood. Her beautiful smile would light up a room whenever she entered and that smile is sadly missed!

 Danielle was a spiritual young lady who tried to see the good in everyone around her, even though sometimes she didn't see the best in herself. She struggled with painful emotions of the father that abandoned her as a small child.

 She, at times, made some bad decisions but was growing up and starting to face her fears and demons in a more adult like way. It's because of this that she wouldn't want bitterness between those that she loved. Instead, she would rather have her loved ones unite in her memory. There need be no guilt placed on anyone regarding Danielle's short time with us. We cannot go back in time and change the past; we can only learn from it and move forward towards each brand new day that God gives to us.

Danielle loved with ALL her might, and she was loved in return by many. She made some bad choices from time to time but what teenager doesn't? She was my daughter, my first born, and my love for her is unconditional  ~ Always and Forever~

Danielle went to her eternal home, with the Lord, the result of a hit & run repeat drunk driver, while she was out walking with her friends. Her short life left a mark on the hearts of many around her. We all hold many memories of Danielle with us and we keep them very close to our hearts.

Please cry only happy tears when you remember her and know that she is only a memory away and now lives within our hearts forever♥

She is sadly missed by many.

Until we meet again sweet angel~ Love You ♥♥♥

Danielle took a cross country trip with her good friend, Tara, shortly after graduation in the summer of 2006. She was so excited to be on the "roadtrip" of a lifetime, even though I was scared to death for her to travel this far from home. I am so thankful that she took the chance anyway and was able to see the beautiful portrait that God has painted on earth. Here she is at the Grand Canyon reaching toward the Heavens as if shouting... "Here I am... I have arrived!" .......Finally Free My Sweet Angel!

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The Next Place

(by Warren Hanson)

The next place that I go will be as peaceful and familiar as a sleepy summer Sunday and a sweet, untroubled mind. And yet….it won’t be anything like any place I’ve ever been… or seen…or dreamed of in the place I leave behind. I won’t know where I’m going, and I won’t know where I’ve been as I tumble through the always and look back toward the when. I’ll glide beyond the rainbows. I’ll drift above the sky. I’ll fly into the wonder, without ever wondering why. I won’t remember getting there. Somehow I’ll just arrive. But I’ll know that I belong there and will feel much more alive than I have ever felt before. I will be absolutely free of the things that I held onto that were holding onto me. The next place that I go will be so quiet and so still that the whispered song of sweet belonging will rise up to fill the listening sky with joyful silence, and with unheard harmonies of music made by no one playing, like a hush upon a breeze. There will be no room for darkness in that place of living light. Where an ever-dawning morning pushes back the dying night. The very air will fill with brilliance, as the brightly shining sun and the moon and half a million stars are married into one. The next place that I go Won’t really be a place at all. There won’t be any seasons—winter, summer, spring or fall— Nor a Monday, Nor a Friday, Nor December, Nor July. And the seconds will be standing still… while the hours hurry by. I will not be a boy or girl, a woman or a man. I’ll simply be just, simply me. No worse or better than. My skin will not be dark or light. I won’t be fat or tall. The body I once lived in won’t be part of me at all. I will finally be perfect. I will be without a flaw. I will never make one more mistake, or break the smallest law. And the me that was impatient, or was angry or unkind, will simply be a memory. The me I left behind. I will travel empty-handed. There is not one single thing I have collected in my life that I would ever want to bring except…. The love of those who loved me, and the warmth of those who cared. The happiness and memories and magic that we shared. Though I will know the joy of solitude… I’ll never be alone. I’ll be embraced by all the family and friends I’ve ever known. Although I might not see their faces, all our hearts will beat as one, and the circle of our spirits Will shine brighter than the sun.

Paint Me A Picture

Paint me a picture of what Heaven must be

 For I'm a mere mortal, and I cannot see

The realms that you dwell in -

The places you know

So paint me a picture and help me to grow

Into the knowledge which you now possess

Impart to me wisdom, counsel and rest ---

Twirling around in the Light of God's Love

Grant me a glimpse of Heaven above.

Yes, paint me a picture with guiding hands Of Heavenly Hosts

- Waterfalls - Angelic Bands- Majestic Mountains - Singing

Saints - Places and scenes, which only you could paint!

And I'll wait for tomorrow to come

When we'll be united,

Together, as one

Until then -

While we must dwell apart

Just paint me a picture,

To hold in my heart ♥!

Precious Angel

You can shed tears that she is gone Or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left. Your heart can be empty because you can't see her Or you can be full of the love that you shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember her and only that she is gone Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on. You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back, Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.

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 You can listen to Danielle sing to you the song "Over The Rainbow" on the "Voice Of An Angel" page here on the Virtual Memorial.......

Danielle Loved Blue Roses, Lillies, Frogs,and Fairies

In Loving Memory of Danielle and Mark Daniel

A heart of gold stopped beating.
Two shining eyes at rest,
God broke our hearts to prove
He only takes the best.
Only God knows why you had to leave us;
But you did not go alone
for part of us went with you the day
He took you home!
To some you are forgotten,
and others just a part of the past,
But to us who have loved and lost you
The memory will always last.
We love you more than you will ever know!!!!!!

Danielle's mother, Diane, in an effort to bring beauty form ashes, now speaks to DUI offenders around the area with a group of other mothers for the MADD association.

She tells the attendees about her daughter, Danielle, and shares with them the magnitude of her and her families loss.Diane is a very strong woman and it is evident where Danielle received her inner strength....she received it from her mother.