We Continue to Celebrate Chase’s Life

After Chase’s passing last month, we were surrounded by so much love and support that it was overwhelming. We were extremely blessed to spend 3 days with so many of his Prayer Warriors, during the two days of viewing at the funeral home as well as the funeral service and wake. This was such a beautiful celebration and send off for Chase that it filled our hearts with joy and gave us much relief. There were too many messages and incredibly moving gestures of love to fully acknowledge and respond along the way; however, each one contributed to lifting us all through the process – we are just now getting though all of the cards, letters, etc and we’re receiving deep consolation from each one. We also wanted to mention how grateful we are for the help we received from Auntie Cathy and Sr. Carmela in planning the funeral. There were also memorials of pictures compiled by Cathy Connover and Peter Balanda which were shown at the wake as well as a beautiful arrangement of movie clips prepared by Kay Ponicall along with the incredible send-off of balloons at the cemetery.

We set up the slide show at the wake that included many of the messages that were posted on the blog by Chase’s Prayer Warriors since we were too caught up at the time to review our e-mails. All of your thoughts and prayers were greatly appreciated and helpful in soothing our grief. It truly was an amazing celebration and tribute to our little superhero. We feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to share his journey with so many loving people. We continue to remember the beautiful moments of Chase’s life and cherish the insights that we gained along the way – he touched many lives in many ways and we know he is now our little angel watching and waiting from above.

His memorial card read: Chase Angelo Sammut (May 23, 2000 – Sept 19, 2007). I’ll lend for you a little while a child of mine, God said. For you to love the while he lives, and mourn for when he’s dead. We will shelter him with tenderness, we’ll love him while we may... and for the happiness we’ve known forever grateful stay. But should Thy angels call for him much sooner than we’ve planned, we’ll brave the grief that comes and try to understand.

Thanks so much for all your prayers and support lifting our angel Chase along the way and our entire family. We are forever grateful and tremendously blessed by you all. We also appreciate all of the contributions to Life Horse in Chase’s name – they have collected over $8K to date and it is making a big difference to this worthwhile cause of providing rehabilitation therapy for handicapped children.

God Bless!!

John & Carol Sammut
Chase & Barbara Ann