Amy was a special little girl who brought joy into the lives of her family and those who knew her. How wonderful to know that families can be together forever!
Poem by Amy:
I AM THANKFUL
Written By: Amy Carter 1999
I am thankful for all my eyes can see:
Puppies playing
My begging dog
A beautiful rose
A jumping frog.
I am thankful for all my ears can hear:
Church music
Bells ringing
Rain falling
My sister singing.
I am thankful for all my hands can hold:
My dog Mickey
My brother's baby boy
A book I can read
A stuffed animal toy.
I am thankful for all my heart can love:
My dog Mickey,
My sisters and brother
My funny dad
My nice mother.
Written By: Amy Carter 1999
Memories of Amy Marie
by Aunt Sandra
My first memories of Amy were photos of her newly born. It was incredible how much she looked like Kori. Later she seemed to be a mix of both Kori and Russell with a mix of their temperaments.
When I got to know Amy, she was a bit older. She loved to do workbooks and read--even though that was a bit of a struggle for her. She loved the ones I gave her and was proud when she finished them.
When the Carters would come to Salt Lake, we usually got together somewhere to visit with the family. Amy seemed a bit shy until you got to know her---THEN she was really fun and funny to be with. She loved to laugh and tell jokes.
Make-A-Wish is one of my favorite organizations. I kept suggesting to Geri that we ought to get Amy on the wish granting list, but Geri wanted to wait--especially since Brian and Shauna were both on missions and wouldn't be
home for Amy's wish.
Doing dishes in the deli at work gets to be really boring, with lots of time to think and day dream. One day in 1997, while daydreaming at work, a strong impression came to call Dr. Seigler to ask him to approve a wish for Amy. Being late in the day, I wasn't sure he would be in his office. I wasn't even certain that he would remember the Carters.
However...
Through my experiences in being led by the Spirit to grant Kori and Russell's wishes, I have learned to listen to those promptings.
Dr. Seigler wasn't in at the moment, but his secretary took down the information. Within a short time Dr. Seigler called back and said, "Of course I will approve a wish for Amy."
A few days later, I called the Make-A-Wish office and told them Dr. Seigler would give permission for a wish. They told me it could just be verbal for him, but we had to have Geri & Rich's permission, too.
Three-way calling is wonderful. I had Mary Brunner hold on the line while I called Geri, then the three of us talked. We finally convinced Geri that it would be okay to have Amy be a Wish Child.
Amy had the hardest time deciding between a computer to make Barbie clothes or a trip to Disney Land. There were problems, too with the wish coming from St. George, but Mary Brunner, of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Utah, pulled off a miracle with no time to spare, and the family took off on a plane to California for an exhausting week of trying to see everything at once in Southern California!
Amy's whole family got to go on the trip with her. They didn't have to wait in line because she was a Wish Child. She got to meet some of her favorite characters and Donald Duck who is her least favorite because he is so ornery. ["Fittingly ?" -- part of our family's "hex"] --the best close-up picture of Amy at Disneyland was the one with Donald Duck! That is the one published in the Make-a-Wish news. Poor Amy.
My favorite memory however is of the time I spent with her at the University of Utah Medical Center while Rich and Geri went on vacation to California.
For several nights I slept on the floor cushion by her bed. She and her roommate, Josie, and I would sing songs. Then I would tell them Time Machine Bible stories. [In the stories we would go in a time machine to different times in the Book of Mormon or the Bible--they would do things like sit on Jesus' lap as he told them how much He loved them. Or, they would visit baby Jesus in the manger. Mary let them hold Baby Jesus and talk to him.]
Aunt Sandra [me] would finally crash about midnight but the girls would be still going strong. Every time my voice would drift away into Never-Never Land, as I was talking, I would be startled awake by the girls giggling as a flying stuffed animal flew onto my body to wake me up. So I kept telling stories.
The girls thought that was so much fun to keep Aunt Sandra awake.
Later, Amy laughed every time we would talk about me staying in the hospital with them. Being with them was like a vacation for me. We cooked pizza and other fun things in the microwave. One day I saw that the girls had cut up hospital pajamas to make clothes for their dolls. They told me that it was okay to do it.
We watched a video of a former family reunion I had taped which included interviews with Amy's older sister Kori and her brother Russell. Amy had never met either of them because they died before she was born. We watched her sister Kriss as a little girl and her sister Shauna who didn't want her hair brushed. Her brother, Brian was also in the video, but didn't stick around much for little "interviews".
Amy laughed and laughed at those videos. She thought her dad looked funny, too.
We enjoyed looking at the "flower arrangement" made of cookie bears that her mother's cousins, Sharon Cox Morishita and Barbara Cox Englund had bought for her. [They were far too cute to eat!]
Amy painted the hospital room window with cute flowers and designs. She had crafts all over her room.
One morning I helped Amy have a sleep-over with her roommate, Josie. Amy climbed into Josie's bed while I stuffed Amy's robe with pillows. I put a pillow where her head should be and tucked the arm of her robe around a stuffed animal. I had one of her slippers on the bed poking out from under the blanket. It really did look like Amy was still asleep with a pillow over her head so the hospital staff wouldn't bother her with medicines and pokes to take blood.
A short time later, some of the staff came in and really thought it was Amy still sleeping. The Child Life Specialist tiptoed out and said, "I'll come back when she's awake." One of the other staff told her that Amy was in Josie's bed. She came back into the room and looked under the blanket. Amy laughed with such delight--more laughter than I had heard from her for a long time.
Amy also laughed at her funny dad pretending to get lost in the halls in the hospital.
On the Fourth of July we went out in the Hospital Parking lot and watched numerous fireworks all over the Salt Lake Valley. It was a beautiful evening and fun to see more than one set of fireworks. Amy rode in a wagon through the halls and out onto the patio.
Amy was a cute, fun, usually happy girl (unless the nurses were doing something that hurt). She brought joy and sunshine into many lives.
It amazed both Geri and I how many doctors and nurses remembered her each time she would go back to the hospital.
Amy, you will make a good missionary in heaven with your brothers and sisters. I see you as one of the strong, valiant servants of our Heavenly Father going
forth with the righteous to teach our ancestors about Jesus Christ. You, Kori and Russell will be watching over your family, gently leading them back to our
Father in Heaven. Your family truly is blessed to have had some of the choicest spirits in Heaven visit for a while.
Memories by Aunt Sandra:
Lying gently on my mind---
Memories--
Your footprints
In my sands of time.
Clickable links to the gravesites of her sister, brother and grandparents:
Sister: Kori Lynn Carter
Brother: Russell Carter
Grandpa Barton: Garth Barton
Grandma Barton: Mona Cox Barton
Grandma Carter: Clara Mae Carter
Great Grandpa Carter: Guy William Carter
Great Grandma Carter Effie Myers Carter
Poem by Amy:
I AM THANKFUL
Written By: Amy Carter 1999
I am thankful for all my eyes can see:
Puppies playing
My begging dog
A beautiful rose
A jumping frog.
I am thankful for all my ears can hear:
Church music
Bells ringing
Rain falling
My sister singing.
I am thankful for all my hands can hold:
My dog Mickey
My brother's baby boy
A book I can read
A stuffed animal toy.
I am thankful for all my heart can love:
My dog Mickey,
My sisters and brother
My funny dad
My nice mother.
Written By: Amy Carter 1999
Memories of Amy Marie
by Aunt Sandra
My first memories of Amy were photos of her newly born. It was incredible how much she looked like Kori. Later she seemed to be a mix of both Kori and Russell with a mix of their temperaments.
When I got to know Amy, she was a bit older. She loved to do workbooks and read--even though that was a bit of a struggle for her. She loved the ones I gave her and was proud when she finished them.
When the Carters would come to Salt Lake, we usually got together somewhere to visit with the family. Amy seemed a bit shy until you got to know her---THEN she was really fun and funny to be with. She loved to laugh and tell jokes.
Make-A-Wish is one of my favorite organizations. I kept suggesting to Geri that we ought to get Amy on the wish granting list, but Geri wanted to wait--especially since Brian and Shauna were both on missions and wouldn't be
home for Amy's wish.
Doing dishes in the deli at work gets to be really boring, with lots of time to think and day dream. One day in 1997, while daydreaming at work, a strong impression came to call Dr. Seigler to ask him to approve a wish for Amy. Being late in the day, I wasn't sure he would be in his office. I wasn't even certain that he would remember the Carters.
However...
Through my experiences in being led by the Spirit to grant Kori and Russell's wishes, I have learned to listen to those promptings.
Dr. Seigler wasn't in at the moment, but his secretary took down the information. Within a short time Dr. Seigler called back and said, "Of course I will approve a wish for Amy."
A few days later, I called the Make-A-Wish office and told them Dr. Seigler would give permission for a wish. They told me it could just be verbal for him, but we had to have Geri & Rich's permission, too.
Three-way calling is wonderful. I had Mary Brunner hold on the line while I called Geri, then the three of us talked. We finally convinced Geri that it would be okay to have Amy be a Wish Child.
Amy had the hardest time deciding between a computer to make Barbie clothes or a trip to Disney Land. There were problems, too with the wish coming from St. George, but Mary Brunner, of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Utah, pulled off a miracle with no time to spare, and the family took off on a plane to California for an exhausting week of trying to see everything at once in Southern California!
Amy's whole family got to go on the trip with her. They didn't have to wait in line because she was a Wish Child. She got to meet some of her favorite characters and Donald Duck who is her least favorite because he is so ornery. ["Fittingly ?" -- part of our family's "hex"] --the best close-up picture of Amy at Disneyland was the one with Donald Duck! That is the one published in the Make-a-Wish news. Poor Amy.
My favorite memory however is of the time I spent with her at the University of Utah Medical Center while Rich and Geri went on vacation to California.
For several nights I slept on the floor cushion by her bed. She and her roommate, Josie, and I would sing songs. Then I would tell them Time Machine Bible stories. [In the stories we would go in a time machine to different times in the Book of Mormon or the Bible--they would do things like sit on Jesus' lap as he told them how much He loved them. Or, they would visit baby Jesus in the manger. Mary let them hold Baby Jesus and talk to him.]
Aunt Sandra [me] would finally crash about midnight but the girls would be still going strong. Every time my voice would drift away into Never-Never Land, as I was talking, I would be startled awake by the girls giggling as a flying stuffed animal flew onto my body to wake me up. So I kept telling stories.
The girls thought that was so much fun to keep Aunt Sandra awake.
Later, Amy laughed every time we would talk about me staying in the hospital with them. Being with them was like a vacation for me. We cooked pizza and other fun things in the microwave. One day I saw that the girls had cut up hospital pajamas to make clothes for their dolls. They told me that it was okay to do it.
We watched a video of a former family reunion I had taped which included interviews with Amy's older sister Kori and her brother Russell. Amy had never met either of them because they died before she was born. We watched her sister Kriss as a little girl and her sister Shauna who didn't want her hair brushed. Her brother, Brian was also in the video, but didn't stick around much for little "interviews".
Amy laughed and laughed at those videos. She thought her dad looked funny, too.
We enjoyed looking at the "flower arrangement" made of cookie bears that her mother's cousins, Sharon Cox Morishita and Barbara Cox Englund had bought for her. [They were far too cute to eat!]
Amy painted the hospital room window with cute flowers and designs. She had crafts all over her room.
One morning I helped Amy have a sleep-over with her roommate, Josie. Amy climbed into Josie's bed while I stuffed Amy's robe with pillows. I put a pillow where her head should be and tucked the arm of her robe around a stuffed animal. I had one of her slippers on the bed poking out from under the blanket. It really did look like Amy was still asleep with a pillow over her head so the hospital staff wouldn't bother her with medicines and pokes to take blood.
A short time later, some of the staff came in and really thought it was Amy still sleeping. The Child Life Specialist tiptoed out and said, "I'll come back when she's awake." One of the other staff told her that Amy was in Josie's bed. She came back into the room and looked under the blanket. Amy laughed with such delight--more laughter than I had heard from her for a long time.
Amy also laughed at her funny dad pretending to get lost in the halls in the hospital.
On the Fourth of July we went out in the Hospital Parking lot and watched numerous fireworks all over the Salt Lake Valley. It was a beautiful evening and fun to see more than one set of fireworks. Amy rode in a wagon through the halls and out onto the patio.
Amy was a cute, fun, usually happy girl (unless the nurses were doing something that hurt). She brought joy and sunshine into many lives.
It amazed both Geri and I how many doctors and nurses remembered her each time she would go back to the hospital.
Amy, you will make a good missionary in heaven with your brothers and sisters. I see you as one of the strong, valiant servants of our Heavenly Father going
forth with the righteous to teach our ancestors about Jesus Christ. You, Kori and Russell will be watching over your family, gently leading them back to our
Father in Heaven. Your family truly is blessed to have had some of the choicest spirits in Heaven visit for a while.
Memories by Aunt Sandra:
Lying gently on my mind---
Memories--
Your footprints
In my sands of time.
Clickable links to the gravesites of her sister, brother and grandparents:
Sister: Kori Lynn Carter
Brother: Russell Carter
Grandpa Barton: Garth Barton
Grandma Barton: Mona Cox Barton
Grandma Carter: Clara Mae Carter
Great Grandpa Carter: Guy William Carter
Great Grandma Carter Effie Myers Carter
Amy was a special little girl who brought joy into the lives of her family and those who knew her. How wonderful to know that families can be together forever!
Poem by Amy:
I AM THANKFUL
Written By: Amy Carter 1999
I am thankful for all my eyes can see:
Puppies playing
My begging dog
A beautiful rose
A jumping frog.
I am thankful for all my ears can hear:
Church music
Bells ringing
Rain falling
My sister singing.
I am thankful for all my hands can hold:
My dog Mickey
My brother's baby boy
A book I can read
A stuffed animal toy.
I am thankful for all my heart can love:
My dog Mickey,
My sisters and brother
My funny dad
My nice mother.
Written By: Amy Carter 1999
Memories of Amy Marie
by Aunt Sandra
My first memories of Amy were photos of her newly born. It was incredible how much she looked like Kori. Later she seemed to be a mix of both Kori and Russell with a mix of their temperaments.
When I got to know Amy, she was a bit older. She loved to do workbooks and read--even though that was a bit of a struggle for her. She loved the ones I gave her and was proud when she finished them.
When the Carters would come to Salt Lake, we usually got together somewhere to visit with the family. Amy seemed a bit shy until you got to know her---THEN she was really fun and funny to be with. She loved to laugh and tell jokes.
Make-A-Wish is one of my favorite organizations. I kept suggesting to Geri that we ought to get Amy on the wish granting list, but Geri wanted to wait--especially since Brian and Shauna were both on missions and wouldn't be
home for Amy's wish.
Doing dishes in the deli at work gets to be really boring, with lots of time to think and day dream. One day in 1997, while daydreaming at work, a strong impression came to call Dr. Seigler to ask him to approve a wish for Amy. Being late in the day, I wasn't sure he would be in his office. I wasn't even certain that he would remember the Carters.
However...
Through my experiences in being led by the Spirit to grant Kori and Russell's wishes, I have learned to listen to those promptings.
Dr. Seigler wasn't in at the moment, but his secretary took down the information. Within a short time Dr. Seigler called back and said, "Of course I will approve a wish for Amy."
A few days later, I called the Make-A-Wish office and told them Dr. Seigler would give permission for a wish. They told me it could just be verbal for him, but we had to have Geri & Rich's permission, too.
Three-way calling is wonderful. I had Mary Brunner hold on the line while I called Geri, then the three of us talked. We finally convinced Geri that it would be okay to have Amy be a Wish Child.
Amy had the hardest time deciding between a computer to make Barbie clothes or a trip to Disney Land. There were problems, too with the wish coming from St. George, but Mary Brunner, of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Utah, pulled off a miracle with no time to spare, and the family took off on a plane to California for an exhausting week of trying to see everything at once in Southern California!
Amy's whole family got to go on the trip with her. They didn't have to wait in line because she was a Wish Child. She got to meet some of her favorite characters and Donald Duck who is her least favorite because he is so ornery. ["Fittingly ?" -- part of our family's "hex"] --the best close-up picture of Amy at Disneyland was the one with Donald Duck! That is the one published in the Make-a-Wish news. Poor Amy.
My favorite memory however is of the time I spent with her at the University of Utah Medical Center while Rich and Geri went on vacation to California.
For several nights I slept on the floor cushion by her bed. She and her roommate, Josie, and I would sing songs. Then I would tell them Time Machine Bible stories. [In the stories we would go in a time machine to different times in the Book of Mormon or the Bible--they would do things like sit on Jesus' lap as he told them how much He loved them. Or, they would visit baby Jesus in the manger. Mary let them hold Baby Jesus and talk to him.]
Aunt Sandra [me] would finally crash about midnight but the girls would be still going strong. Every time my voice would drift away into Never-Never Land, as I was talking, I would be startled awake by the girls giggling as a flying stuffed animal flew onto my body to wake me up. So I kept telling stories.
The girls thought that was so much fun to keep Aunt Sandra awake.
Later, Amy laughed every time we would talk about me staying in the hospital with them. Being with them was like a vacation for me. We cooked pizza and other fun things in the microwave. One day I saw that the girls had cut up hospital pajamas to make clothes for their dolls. They told me that it was okay to do it.
We watched a video of a former family reunion I had taped which included interviews with Amy's older sister Kori and her brother Russell. Amy had never met either of them because they died before she was born. We watched her sister Kriss as a little girl and her sister Shauna who didn't want her hair brushed. Her brother, Brian was also in the video, but didn't stick around much for little "interviews".
Amy laughed and laughed at those videos. She thought her dad looked funny, too.
We enjoyed looking at the "flower arrangement" made of cookie bears that her mother's cousins, Sharon Cox Morishita and Barbara Cox Englund had bought for her. [They were far too cute to eat!]
Amy painted the hospital room window with cute flowers and designs. She had crafts all over her room.
One morning I helped Amy have a sleep-over with her roommate, Josie. Amy climbed into Josie's bed while I stuffed Amy's robe with pillows. I put a pillow where her head should be and tucked the arm of her robe around a stuffed animal. I had one of her slippers on the bed poking out from under the blanket. It really did look like Amy was still asleep with a pillow over her head so the hospital staff wouldn't bother her with medicines and pokes to take blood.
A short time later, some of the staff came in and really thought it was Amy still sleeping. The Child Life Specialist tiptoed out and said, "I'll come back when she's awake." One of the other staff told her that Amy was in Josie's bed. She came back into the room and looked under the blanket. Amy laughed with such delight--more laughter than I had heard from her for a long time.
Amy also laughed at her funny dad pretending to get lost in the halls in the hospital.
On the Fourth of July we went out in the Hospital Parking lot and watched numerous fireworks all over the Salt Lake Valley. It was a beautiful evening and fun to see more than one set of fireworks. Amy rode in a wagon through the halls and out onto the patio.
Amy was a cute, fun, usually happy girl (unless the nurses were doing something that hurt). She brought joy and sunshine into many lives.
It amazed both Geri and I how many doctors and nurses remembered her each time she would go back to the hospital.
Amy, you will make a good missionary in heaven with your brothers and sisters. I see you as one of the strong, valiant servants of our Heavenly Father going
forth with the righteous to teach our ancestors about Jesus Christ. You, Kori and Russell will be watching over your family, gently leading them back to our
Father in Heaven. Your family truly is blessed to have had some of the choicest spirits in Heaven visit for a while.
Memories by Aunt Sandra:
Lying gently on my mind---
Memories--
Your footprints
In my sands of time.
Clickable links to the gravesites of her sister, brother and grandparents:
Sister: Kori Lynn Carter
Brother: Russell Carter
Grandpa Barton: Garth Barton
Grandma Barton: Mona Cox Barton
Grandma Carter: Clara Mae Carter
Great Grandpa Carter: Guy William Carter
Great Grandma Carter Effie Myers Carter
Poem by Amy:
I AM THANKFUL
Written By: Amy Carter 1999
I am thankful for all my eyes can see:
Puppies playing
My begging dog
A beautiful rose
A jumping frog.
I am thankful for all my ears can hear:
Church music
Bells ringing
Rain falling
My sister singing.
I am thankful for all my hands can hold:
My dog Mickey
My brother's baby boy
A book I can read
A stuffed animal toy.
I am thankful for all my heart can love:
My dog Mickey,
My sisters and brother
My funny dad
My nice mother.
Written By: Amy Carter 1999
Memories of Amy Marie
by Aunt Sandra
My first memories of Amy were photos of her newly born. It was incredible how much she looked like Kori. Later she seemed to be a mix of both Kori and Russell with a mix of their temperaments.
When I got to know Amy, she was a bit older. She loved to do workbooks and read--even though that was a bit of a struggle for her. She loved the ones I gave her and was proud when she finished them.
When the Carters would come to Salt Lake, we usually got together somewhere to visit with the family. Amy seemed a bit shy until you got to know her---THEN she was really fun and funny to be with. She loved to laugh and tell jokes.
Make-A-Wish is one of my favorite organizations. I kept suggesting to Geri that we ought to get Amy on the wish granting list, but Geri wanted to wait--especially since Brian and Shauna were both on missions and wouldn't be
home for Amy's wish.
Doing dishes in the deli at work gets to be really boring, with lots of time to think and day dream. One day in 1997, while daydreaming at work, a strong impression came to call Dr. Seigler to ask him to approve a wish for Amy. Being late in the day, I wasn't sure he would be in his office. I wasn't even certain that he would remember the Carters.
However...
Through my experiences in being led by the Spirit to grant Kori and Russell's wishes, I have learned to listen to those promptings.
Dr. Seigler wasn't in at the moment, but his secretary took down the information. Within a short time Dr. Seigler called back and said, "Of course I will approve a wish for Amy."
A few days later, I called the Make-A-Wish office and told them Dr. Seigler would give permission for a wish. They told me it could just be verbal for him, but we had to have Geri & Rich's permission, too.
Three-way calling is wonderful. I had Mary Brunner hold on the line while I called Geri, then the three of us talked. We finally convinced Geri that it would be okay to have Amy be a Wish Child.
Amy had the hardest time deciding between a computer to make Barbie clothes or a trip to Disney Land. There were problems, too with the wish coming from St. George, but Mary Brunner, of the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Utah, pulled off a miracle with no time to spare, and the family took off on a plane to California for an exhausting week of trying to see everything at once in Southern California!
Amy's whole family got to go on the trip with her. They didn't have to wait in line because she was a Wish Child. She got to meet some of her favorite characters and Donald Duck who is her least favorite because he is so ornery. ["Fittingly ?" -- part of our family's "hex"] --the best close-up picture of Amy at Disneyland was the one with Donald Duck! That is the one published in the Make-a-Wish news. Poor Amy.
My favorite memory however is of the time I spent with her at the University of Utah Medical Center while Rich and Geri went on vacation to California.
For several nights I slept on the floor cushion by her bed. She and her roommate, Josie, and I would sing songs. Then I would tell them Time Machine Bible stories. [In the stories we would go in a time machine to different times in the Book of Mormon or the Bible--they would do things like sit on Jesus' lap as he told them how much He loved them. Or, they would visit baby Jesus in the manger. Mary let them hold Baby Jesus and talk to him.]
Aunt Sandra [me] would finally crash about midnight but the girls would be still going strong. Every time my voice would drift away into Never-Never Land, as I was talking, I would be startled awake by the girls giggling as a flying stuffed animal flew onto my body to wake me up. So I kept telling stories.
The girls thought that was so much fun to keep Aunt Sandra awake.
Later, Amy laughed every time we would talk about me staying in the hospital with them. Being with them was like a vacation for me. We cooked pizza and other fun things in the microwave. One day I saw that the girls had cut up hospital pajamas to make clothes for their dolls. They told me that it was okay to do it.
We watched a video of a former family reunion I had taped which included interviews with Amy's older sister Kori and her brother Russell. Amy had never met either of them because they died before she was born. We watched her sister Kriss as a little girl and her sister Shauna who didn't want her hair brushed. Her brother, Brian was also in the video, but didn't stick around much for little "interviews".
Amy laughed and laughed at those videos. She thought her dad looked funny, too.
We enjoyed looking at the "flower arrangement" made of cookie bears that her mother's cousins, Sharon Cox Morishita and Barbara Cox Englund had bought for her. [They were far too cute to eat!]
Amy painted the hospital room window with cute flowers and designs. She had crafts all over her room.
One morning I helped Amy have a sleep-over with her roommate, Josie. Amy climbed into Josie's bed while I stuffed Amy's robe with pillows. I put a pillow where her head should be and tucked the arm of her robe around a stuffed animal. I had one of her slippers on the bed poking out from under the blanket. It really did look like Amy was still asleep with a pillow over her head so the hospital staff wouldn't bother her with medicines and pokes to take blood.
A short time later, some of the staff came in and really thought it was Amy still sleeping. The Child Life Specialist tiptoed out and said, "I'll come back when she's awake." One of the other staff told her that Amy was in Josie's bed. She came back into the room and looked under the blanket. Amy laughed with such delight--more laughter than I had heard from her for a long time.
Amy also laughed at her funny dad pretending to get lost in the halls in the hospital.
On the Fourth of July we went out in the Hospital Parking lot and watched numerous fireworks all over the Salt Lake Valley. It was a beautiful evening and fun to see more than one set of fireworks. Amy rode in a wagon through the halls and out onto the patio.
Amy was a cute, fun, usually happy girl (unless the nurses were doing something that hurt). She brought joy and sunshine into many lives.
It amazed both Geri and I how many doctors and nurses remembered her each time she would go back to the hospital.
Amy, you will make a good missionary in heaven with your brothers and sisters. I see you as one of the strong, valiant servants of our Heavenly Father going
forth with the righteous to teach our ancestors about Jesus Christ. You, Kori and Russell will be watching over your family, gently leading them back to our
Father in Heaven. Your family truly is blessed to have had some of the choicest spirits in Heaven visit for a while.
Memories by Aunt Sandra:
Lying gently on my mind---
Memories--
Your footprints
In my sands of time.
Clickable links to the gravesites of her sister, brother and grandparents:
Sister: Kori Lynn Carter
Brother: Russell Carter
Grandpa Barton: Garth Barton
Grandma Barton: Mona Cox Barton
Grandma Carter: Clara Mae Carter
Great Grandpa Carter: Guy William Carter
Great Grandma Carter Effie Myers Carter
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