Goodbye Spenc

Monday, June 24th, 2024

On Monday evening about 7 PM my dad called to tell me that my mother found Spencer, dead in his vehicle. 

It was the night before we were supposed to go to Lagoon. 

Shay had come to pick up my kids and Oaklee and Kash (whom I had been babysitting) and take them up to have a sleepover at the trailer in the lagoon campground like they do every year. 

After we found out we got a hold of Shay and got her to come back to the house. 

During that time I had been talking to Sarah. No one was sure if we were still going to go to Lagoon the next day or not. 

Eventually mom decided, upon the advice of the social worker whom she met while working with the police downtown, to go to Lagoon the next day. 

So at about 9/9:30 PM, Jake drove the van full of kids, and I drove with Shayla in her car towards Farmington to drop everybody off. 

We didn't end up leaving til midnight, because Sarah and Brady had driven all the way up to sleepover in the trailer and be with their kids and my parents. We spent hours talking and crying. 

Mom said that the police told her Spencer had been dead for several days, and that because of the heat his body had been forced into decomposition rather quickly. 

Mom's friend, Lisa, was with her when they found Spencer, and they both smelt the decay and Lisa ended up setting a glimpse of Spencer, and pulled my mom away before she could open up the car door or peak in the windows. Lisa called the police, and Lisa told me later that mom was crying and fighting her to try and get "to her son." Lucky enough or because of divine intervention, my mom did not ever see Spencer in that state, and the funeral home told her it would be a closed casket funeral because of the state of his body. 

 

These are the last pictures I have of Spencer, from Saturday, June 15th when Jake and I drove Spencer up to the Harvey Family birthday party up at the park by Mountain Dell golf course

 

We will miss you Spenc. Love you.