In Memoriam Stories

Here is where you can send your story about your experience related to meningitis. Send us your story to fund@meningitis.ca and we will review it and post it on this page. 

These stories are of children and young adults who have died of meningitis and septicemia. Over and above the common cause of death is the speed, the moments it seems, between the first symptoms and last breath and the extraordinary need to be more aware of this disease. The stories are here to help survivors - parents and grandparents - deal with the aching grief and to ease the suffering of others with the knowledge that they are not alone.

A Grief Journey

Read A Grief Journey shared with permission from Sandy Peckinpah..

Michael Longo’s mother, Kathryn Blain, tells his story.
On May 18, 2001 we lost our precious, little grandson Tye to meningococcal septicemia. Tye was a lively, happy little boy who touched many lives in our community. On May 16th Tye was as healthy as…
June 11, 1984 - July 08, 2000 It has been 4 ½ long months since we lost our beautiful son Matthew to this deadly disease. It has left our whole family in shock. Matthew comes from a large family;…
June 15, 1981 - October 4, 2000 Our son Brett was a first year Business Administration student at NAIT. He lived by himself in his own apartment, which he had just moved into in July. Before that…
February 19, 1988 - May 13, 2005 Irishtown, N.B. Our nightmare began on mother's day 2005, our daughter woke up and said she wasn't feeling good. She had worked the night before and had…
September 15, 1980 - June 20, 2002 Kevin was born on September 15, 1980. He is my middle child and the one that made me the most exasperated. I wrote in his eulogy that even though I loved all of…
I was very young when I had Brandon; I was 20. After he was born I got very sick in the hospital and the doctors did every test on me to find out what was wrong. They had said it was a virus. They…
Dit is onze Dochter & Zus 08-04-1977 - 31-05-1994 De meeste mensen denken, dit overkomt ons nooit.
On Thursday evening I picked Dawn up from work at 6.00 pm because McDonalds sent her home; she wasn't feel well. I told Dawn on the way home she wasn't allowed to go to school on Friday and…
09/21/1977 to 09/11/1980 On September 6th, 1980, I was out of town and my girlfriend, who lived in the other unit of the duplex we were renting, was babysitting my children, Aimee, 4 1/2 months…