Brandon's Mom

It's with sadness that I post that on Monday, July 9th, 2012, Brandon's Mom, Dawn Illyene Case died at only 50 years old. She was recently diagnosed with breast cancer again after surviving it many years ago but it was a sudden heart attack or blood clot that took her life. 

I've personally only met Dawn about a dozen times in the last five years of her life. I know that she was a wonderful mother the early years of Brandon's life and then after that she had some changes that led to a divorce from Mark, Brandon's Dad. Looking through the photographs that Brandon and Erin have found from her belongings, it was nice to see Dawn in those younger years. She was a mother of two adorable children. She was a big sister to six young men. She was a young wife. She was a beautiful woman that may have made some bad decisions in her life but her life was taken too soon. 


I wish I would have gotten to know her and our kids could of met her. I'm thankful that we have many photographs to remember her by though. Here are just a few...

Dawn and Brandon

Brandon and Erin

Brandon and Dawn

Brandon and Mark

Dawn and Mark

Dawn, her brothers and father. And Brandon and Erin.

Dawn as a young girl

Dawn and her older sister Donagene, who has also passed

Dawn with Hunter at a few months old, the only time they met