OMG Owen is Gone!!
It was just like any other night but it was Saint Patrick’s Day. I was fell asleep on the coach while my mom was on her IPad doing something. And I woke up to her “Saying Owen died!!” she was crying. I was just in shock because he was only in 2nd grade and he was friends with my brother. She told me he was hit by a car coming out of MCD high school. I just couldn’t say anything I was mad, sad, angry, and scared. But I didn’t cry all that night cause I was in shock.
Then the next morning I woke up to my mom saying “hello”, It was the Vice principal of my school calling to tell all the parents of 2nd graders. So when my mom got off the phone she was crying again and my brother woke up. The worst part, my brother said “Mom what happened?” And my mom said “You know Owen Brezitski. Joseph sweetie he got hit by a car last night and he went to heaven.” Joseph just laid back down and rolled into a ball. My mom rubbed his back and said “You were good friends right. You guys played at recess together right.” My brother just nodded and started to cry. But we had to tell my sister Caroline who is in 1st grade. She started bawling when my mom told her. I didn’t want to go to school I didn’t want to do anything ever again but I still went to school.
But when my mom was driving us too school I started bawling (I guess it just hit me like OMG Owen is GONE!!!!!) But this is even worse. When you walked down the upper grade hallway in my school it was all crying boys and girls it was awful. When I got into my class room there was a group of girls by the hallway bawling so I just sat down with them and just thought WHY HIM??? He didn’t have time to live why?!?!
But to make me feel better I say to myself;
“Owen is a saint because God just couldn’t wait until he got older to take him so He took him in 2nd grade. Every time you cry Owen is laughing at you, saying “Why are you crying? You should be happy for me! I can do anything I am with God and I am a angel! Don’t cry-- be happy for me because I am crying tears for you because I want you to see how wonderful it is up here!”
Just remember you may be sad when a love one dies but they are happy because they rare with God and they don’t have to feel pain or get hurt and more they are more happy then they ever have been.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
When Owen Cole Brezitski wanted to play tabletop football on Thursday, his dad told him to be patient. They’d have more time tomorrow. The polite, well-mannered 8-year-old didn’t sulk.
He packed up his games and his portable Nintendo into a camera bag, swung it over his shoulder and went with his family to watch his two older sisters sing in a concert at Bishop McDevitt High School. “We didn’t get to play it,” said Mark Brezitski, his father, staring down at a school picture of the blond-haired second-grader. As the Lower Paxton Twp. family was leaving the concert just after 8 p.m., crossing Market Street to get to where they parked, police said a 16-year-old who was driving home from a study session ran over Owen with her car. At the time of the accident the family — Mom, Grandma, sisters and Owen — were in one of the several designated crosswalks on Market Street, police said. They were walking together, among several others leaving the school at the same time. “I can still hear it,” said the Owen’s sister, Makenna, 14. “Someone said the car isn’t stopping, and I started flagging them down, waving my flute and my arms, but they didn’t stop.”
View full sizeSubmitted photoOwen BrezitskiOwen — who had just offered to help buy Shamrock Shakes from McDonald’s with a dollar his grandpap slipped him for good behavior — was pronounced dead at Harrisburg Hospital. “I saw it happening,” said his mom, Karen Brezitski. “I knew right away. It was just horrific.” This was supposed to be a happy week for the Brezitski family. Owen’s aunt and brand new baby cousin were on their way up from North Carolina to baptize the newborn at the family church Sunday. Next Friday, Makenna will be confirmed in the Roman Catholic faith. “Now we have to have a funeral,” said Mark Brezitski, squeezing his eyes and wiping the tears. Harrisburg police haven’t commented on whether speed played a role in the crash and have not released the name of the driver. They only said that the girl and her family were cooperating with police, and that the teen was headed to her suburban Harrisburg home after a study session downtown. High speed has long been a concern in front of Bishop McDevitt. Scott Shepler said he’s lived in the 2200 block for 25 years and has had three of his cars totaled by inattentive drivers when they were parked. But nothing as bad as this. His wife drove the Brezitski family to the hospital after the crash. “I hate to say it, but I’m somewhat surprised that it doesn’t happen more often, given the speeds and the behavior of drivers,” he said. “It’s a major thoroughfare, and it’s a free-for-all.” Harrisburg police said they routinely monitor that street. Still, the speeds worry Sister Mary Anne Bednar, principal of Bishop McDevitt, which is set to move to a new building in Lower Paxton Twp. in 2012. “It’s scary. They drive too fast up and down,” she said. The decision to move was made because of the age of the current facilities, a lack of parking and the surrounding neighborhood. But that move won’t happen before Makenna starts there in the fall as a freshman. Her little brother was full of energy. Right before he died, he’d tried on his baseball cleats and uniform pants. Owen’s team held its first practice Friday without him. “He wanted to try pitching,” his dad said. The second-grader at Holy Name of Jesus also played soccer and loved Legos and art. He was a miniature man, who surprised his parents with maturity beyond his years. But he was also an “in-the-moment” kid who made the most of his short life. Owen didn’t whine about waiting two months to spend the last of his January birthday money on a Ninjago Lego set, his family said. He barely got to play with it. “He was just a joy to be around,” said his grandmother, Catherine Faiola. “Seldom did we have to reprimand him for anything.” Makenna and 11-year-old sister Kyla want to send some of his silliest moments, captured on tape, to “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” “He always wanted to be the bigger person,” said his mom, Karen. “Giving his spot up for someone else. He wanted to do the right thing.” Owen had been praying all week that a sick friend with an approaching birthday would get better in time to celebrate with his friends at school. “It’s such a nice day,” Karen said Friday. “He would have loved this day. ... That’ll be the only thing that gets us through this, knowing he went straight to heaven.”
He packed up his games and his portable Nintendo into a camera bag, swung it over his shoulder and went with his family to watch his two older sisters sing in a concert at Bishop McDevitt High School. “We didn’t get to play it,” said Mark Brezitski, his father, staring down at a school picture of the blond-haired second-grader. As the Lower Paxton Twp. family was leaving the concert just after 8 p.m., crossing Market Street to get to where they parked, police said a 16-year-old who was driving home from a study session ran over Owen with her car. At the time of the accident the family — Mom, Grandma, sisters and Owen — were in one of the several designated crosswalks on Market Street, police said. They were walking together, among several others leaving the school at the same time. “I can still hear it,” said the Owen’s sister, Makenna, 14. “Someone said the car isn’t stopping, and I started flagging them down, waving my flute and my arms, but they didn’t stop.”
View full sizeSubmitted photoOwen BrezitskiOwen — who had just offered to help buy Shamrock Shakes from McDonald’s with a dollar his grandpap slipped him for good behavior — was pronounced dead at Harrisburg Hospital. “I saw it happening,” said his mom, Karen Brezitski. “I knew right away. It was just horrific.” This was supposed to be a happy week for the Brezitski family. Owen’s aunt and brand new baby cousin were on their way up from North Carolina to baptize the newborn at the family church Sunday. Next Friday, Makenna will be confirmed in the Roman Catholic faith. “Now we have to have a funeral,” said Mark Brezitski, squeezing his eyes and wiping the tears. Harrisburg police haven’t commented on whether speed played a role in the crash and have not released the name of the driver. They only said that the girl and her family were cooperating with police, and that the teen was headed to her suburban Harrisburg home after a study session downtown. High speed has long been a concern in front of Bishop McDevitt. Scott Shepler said he’s lived in the 2200 block for 25 years and has had three of his cars totaled by inattentive drivers when they were parked. But nothing as bad as this. His wife drove the Brezitski family to the hospital after the crash. “I hate to say it, but I’m somewhat surprised that it doesn’t happen more often, given the speeds and the behavior of drivers,” he said. “It’s a major thoroughfare, and it’s a free-for-all.” Harrisburg police said they routinely monitor that street. Still, the speeds worry Sister Mary Anne Bednar, principal of Bishop McDevitt, which is set to move to a new building in Lower Paxton Twp. in 2012. “It’s scary. They drive too fast up and down,” she said. The decision to move was made because of the age of the current facilities, a lack of parking and the surrounding neighborhood. But that move won’t happen before Makenna starts there in the fall as a freshman. Her little brother was full of energy. Right before he died, he’d tried on his baseball cleats and uniform pants. Owen’s team held its first practice Friday without him. “He wanted to try pitching,” his dad said. The second-grader at Holy Name of Jesus also played soccer and loved Legos and art. He was a miniature man, who surprised his parents with maturity beyond his years. But he was also an “in-the-moment” kid who made the most of his short life. Owen didn’t whine about waiting two months to spend the last of his January birthday money on a Ninjago Lego set, his family said. He barely got to play with it. “He was just a joy to be around,” said his grandmother, Catherine Faiola. “Seldom did we have to reprimand him for anything.” Makenna and 11-year-old sister Kyla want to send some of his silliest moments, captured on tape, to “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” “He always wanted to be the bigger person,” said his mom, Karen. “Giving his spot up for someone else. He wanted to do the right thing.” Owen had been praying all week that a sick friend with an approaching birthday would get better in time to celebrate with his friends at school. “It’s such a nice day,” Karen said Friday. “He would have loved this day. ... That’ll be the only thing that gets us through this, knowing he went straight to heaven.”
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