{"id":13335,"date":"2012-07-14T19:49:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13335"},"modified":"2012-07-14T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T05:32:12","slug":"guest-column-gratitude-overflows-in-time-of-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13335","title":{"rendered":"Guest column: Gratitude overflows in time of sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michelle Matchett<\/strong>
\nBoistfort Valley resident<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hello. My name is Michelle Matchett.<\/p>\n

My son Nicholas Matchett drowned in the Chehalis River on May 4th.<\/p>\n

I want to thank everyone for helping us during this time of great loss and being here for my daughter Alex and myself.<\/p>\n

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Michelle Matchett<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank you for the cards, flowers, letters and donations to help with expenses.<\/p>\n

Thank you all for being there to hold me up.<\/p>\n

Thank you to the Boistfort school staff and students for the letters and memories they shared to me and the celebration of his life they held for us.<\/p>\n

Thank you Pastor Rex and Gayle from the Boistfort Community Church for reaching out to us.<\/p>\n

Thank you to Jerred and Melissa Hunt for the most heartfelt beautiful service for Nicholas.<\/p>\n

Thank you to Lewis County Search and Rescue, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, Ronnie at CPS and all the medical personnel who tried to revive Nicky when they found him.<\/p>\n

Thank you Joy, Faye and Tammy for going to the funeral home and helping me plan the services; I would have been completely lost.<\/p>\n

Thank you to my entire Home Depot family, store manager James, Desi, Bob, Jim, Ron, Jerry, Emily, Zach, David, Barb, Melissa, Joy, Faye, Duane, Renae … thank you all.<\/p>\n

Thank you to my neighbors\u00a0Starla and\u00a0Bruce, Cathy and Terry.<\/p>\n

Thank you to Jeff at Cattermole Funeral Home for his knowledge and\u00a0care he gave to helping with the funeral arrangements\u00a0for\u00a0Nicky.<\/p>\n

Thank you to Lewis County Coroner Warren McLeod and his staff for the priceless gift of the last footprints of Nicky on paper; framed with loving care hand delivered to me. Thank you for treating him as a person, thank you for telling me you would never forget him.<\/p>\n

I cried the entire time writing this, there is no way that I can mention everyone that has touch us and helped us. It hurts so much losing my father and son in one month and words are hard to come up with.<\/p>\n

Thank you all and God bless you and your families.<\/p>\n

Michelle<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Matchett, 2004 - 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

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For background, read:<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Breaking news: Child drowns in Chehalis River” from Friday May 4, 2012 at 7:38 p.m., here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Celebration of life set for 8-year-old Boistfort student who drowned” from Monday May 7, 2012 at 8:09 p.m., here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Michelle Matchett Boistfort Valley resident Hello. My name is Michelle Matchett. My son Nicholas Matchett drowned in the Chehalis River on May 4th. I want to thank everyone for helping us during this time of great loss and being here for my daughter Alex and myself. Thank you for the cards, flowers, letters and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13335"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13348,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions\/13348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}