The Parish Family - July 2011
Washington D.C - November 2009
Christy, Jonanthan, and Lauren - November 2009
Christy and Ben - San Francisco, November 2009
The gang at Alcatraz - Susie's wedding weekend
Gatlinburg, TN - Summer 2009
Ben (front L) and Christy (front R) white water rafting on the Pigeon River in Gatlinburg, TN
July 2009
Brittney, Christian, and Sydney at the Lincoln Memorial - June 2009
Ben, Britt, Christian, Christy, Cindy, Sydney, and PawPaw
Washington D.C. - June 2009
Mom, Jonathan, and I at Mom's surprise 55th birthday party - May 2009
New York City - March 2009
FDNY - Station just across from Ground Zero in Manhattan
March 2009
Mount Vernon - March 2009
Christy, Jonathan, Lauren - January 2009
Grandma, Paw Paw, Christian, Brittney, and Sydney
Summer 2008
Fathers Day 2008
Jonathan, Dad, and Christy
Fall 2007
We love and miss you Mamaw, Papa, Jenni, and Uncle Billy!
Folding Uncle Billy's Flag
Uncle Billy is pictured here on the far left
Mamaw - December 2008
Jenni Rebecca Rohr
May 30, 1989 ~ October 5, 2003On Oct. 5, 2003 of Gloucester Twp, NJ age 14.
Jenni was a freshman at Our Lady of Mercy Academy. She was very active in their soccer program. Jenni was a former student of St. Jude's and Ann Mullen Schools where she received a courage award for always having a positive attitude in life. Jenni & her family participated in the Walk for the cure for Juvenile Diabetes. Their walk team was known as Jenni's Happy Bunch. She was a very creative person who loved children and loved baby sitting. Her positive attitude will always be remembered by family & friends.
Beloved daughter of Joseph F. and Pamela J. (nee Hagensick) Rohr. Loving sister of Anna C. and Nicholas J. Rohr. Granddaughter of Mary Hagensick and Dorothy Rohr. Also survived by cousins, aunts, uncles and friends.
Relatives & friends are invited to attend her viewing Wed. eve. 6-9pm & Thurs. 9:30-11:00am at St. Charles Borromeo RC Church, 176 Stagecoach Rd. Washington Twp. Mass of Christian Burial 11am at the church. Interment St. Joseph's Cemetery, Chews Landing. The family requests that memorial donations in Jenni's memory be made to Chop Voorhees Hem/Onc, 1012 Laurel Oak Rd, Voorhees, NJ 08043 or Camp Sunshine, 35 Acadia Rd. Casco, ME 04015 or to Camp Nejeda, PO Box 156 Stillwater, NJ 07875. Condolences & memories may be shared with the family at http://www.egizifuneral.com/
'A Life Well Lived Is Worth Remembering'
Publication date: 10/07/03
Jenni Rohr Scholarship awarded
The first Jenni Rohr Scholarship was awarded to Kathryn Michele Bojanowski from Ann Mullen Middle School in Gloucester Township. She attends St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Turnersville. The scholarship will help reduce the cost of tuition while she attends Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Newfield. Applicants are required to write an essay that discusses their school and community involvement. This is the first year for the scholarship, which was started by a group of family and friends to remember Jenni Rohr. At the age of 5, Jenni was diagnosed with diabetes. At Ann Mullen School she joined the field hockey team and the band. She became involved in the community by working with the JDRF to help raise money to find a cure for diabetes. She even taught adults and other children how to manage their disease. Her plans were to go to high school with her older sister, Anna, at Our Lady of Mercy Academy. During the summer before her eighth grade year, Jenni was diagnosed with melanoma. She endured several surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments while continuing to attend school. She was able to attend the eighth grade dance and her friends even helped her fix her hair, but she missed the graduation ceremony because she was in the hospital receiving treatment. Jenni started high school, but after returning from a Make a Wish trip to Atlantis, she died on Oct. 5, 2003 at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Jenni and Katie have a lot in common, including being graduates of Ann Mullen and attending St Charles Borromeo Parish in Turnersvillle.
WATERBUGS AND DRAGONFLIES
By Doris Stickney
Down below the surface of the water of a quiet pond lived a little colony of water bugs. They were a happy colony, living far away from the sun. For many months they were very busy, scurrying over the soft muc on the bottom of the pond. They did notice that every once in a while one of their colony seemed to lose interest in going about with its friends. Clinging to the stem of a pong lily, it gradually moved out of sight and was seen no more.
"Look!" said one of the water bugs to another. "One of our colony is climbing up the lily stalk. Where do you suppose she is going?" Up, up, up it went slowly. Even as they watched, the water bug disappeared from sight. Its friends waited and waited but it didn't return. "That's funny!" said one water bug to another. "Wasn't she happy here?" asked a second water bug. "Where do you suppose she went?" wondered a third. No one had the answer. They were greatly puzzled. Finally one of the water bugs, a leader in the colony, gathered its friends together. "I have an idea. The next one of us who climbs up the lily stalk must promise to come back and tell us where he or she went and why." "We promise," they said solemnly.
One spring day, not long after, the very water bug who had suggested the plan found himself climbing up the lily stalk. Up, up, up he went. Before he knew what was happening, he had broken through the surface of the water, and fallen onto the broad, green pad above.
When he awoke, he looked about with surprise. He couldn't believe what he saw. A startling change had come to is old body. His movement revealed four silver wings and a long tail. Even as he struggled, he felt an impulse to move his wings. The warmth of the sun soon dried the moisture from the new body. He moved his wings again and suddenly found himself up above the water. He had become a dragonfly. Swooping and dipping in great curves, he flew through the air. He felt exhilarated in the new atmosphere. By and by, the new dragonfly lighted happily on a lily pad to rest. Then it was that he chanced to look below to the bottom of the pond. Why, he was right above his old friends, the water bugs! There they were, scurrying about, just as he had been doing some time before. Then the dragonfly remembered the promise: "The next one of us who climbs up the lily stalk will come back and tell where he or she went and why."
Without thinking, the dragonfly darted down. Suddenly he hit the surface of the water and bounced away. Now that he was a dragonfly, he could no longer go into the water. "I can't return!" he said in dismay. "At least I tried, but I can't keep my promise. Even if I could go back, not one of the water bugs would know me in my new body. I guess I'll just have to wait until the become dragonflies, too. Then they'll understand what happened to me, and where I went." And the dragonfly winged off happily into its wonderful world or sun and air!
