Bently Carter,

What can I say? I love you so much! I didn't even get to meet you in person but I know you know who I am. I remember how I used to sing, Teach me How to Dougie, to you when you were in mommy's tummy. She used to yell at me because you would be asleep and when I started singing to you, you would start kicking like you were dancing. I hadn't even known what you looked like but I would've still given my life for you if it was asked of me. 
Your mommy told me about the story of the dragonfly when I came back to Ohio after you went to heaven with your Great-Grandma pat and your cousin Bryson Lee. When I came back to Florida I was really sad and I didn't understand why you couldn't be with us. I started to slip into a very bad heartache, then Me and Auntie Val went out to get me out of the house. When we came back I saw a dragonfly on the pourch light on the next door. I took out my phone and got within a couple inches from it and took a picture to send to your mommy and daddy. I knew deep in my heart that it was you! It wasn't scared of me, so it didn't fly way from me. you mommy agreed and said she knew it was you too. She told me that you and I were so connected and close that you didn't have to see me to know who I was, your heart knew mine and that's why the dragonfly wasn't afriad of me. She said it was you and you were probably like, "hey thats the one who sang Teach me how to dougie." 
There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about you. I often write about you and Bryson. Though I did get to hold Bryson and not you, I feel just as close to you as I do him. You two were 2 of the cutest babies i've ever seen!
I love you and miss you. I know Grandma is taking care of you. She loved babies so much! I love your mommy and Daddy and I know they think about you every second of every day! We miss you so much but we will see you, all of you, someday!

Love,
Auntie Coco!

Words can not express how sorry we are for your loss. 

God does everything for a reason and even though we may never understand why He took Bently home with Him, take comfort in knowing that your beautiful baby is now in Heaven. 
We love you-
Kim, Andy, Ally & Hunter

Our deepest sympathies for your loss. Jeff and Terry Corsello

  Seth and Krystal,, I Just wanted  you both to know.. that although no words can really help to ease the loss you both bear, just know that you are very close in every thought and  prayer.
   We love you both,,Love Uncle Paul & Aunt Debbie

Krystal & Seth...This story helped us a lot when my Mom lost my brother in our house fire and I wanted to share it with you and your family....may Bently always be your Dragonfly!!!

Waterbugs and Dragonflies



Down below the surface of a quiet pond lived a little colony of water bugs. They were a happy colony, living far away from the sun. For many months they were
very busy, scurrying over the soft mud on the bottom of the pond. They did notice that every once in awhile one of their colony seemed to lose interest in going
about. Clinging to the stem of a pond lily it gradually moved out of sight and was seen no more.
"Look!" said one of the water bugs to another. "One of our colony is climbing up the lily stalk. Where do you think she is going?" Up, up, up it slowly went....Even
as they watched, the water bug disappeared from sight. Its friends waited and waited but it didn't return...

"That's funny!" said one water bug to another. "Wasn't she happy here?" asked a second... "Where do you suppose she went?" wondered a third.

No one had an answer. They were greatly puzzled. Finally one of the water bugs, a leader in the colony, gathered its friends together. "I have an idea". The next one
of us who climbs up the lily stalk must promise to come back and tell us where he or she went and why."

"We promise", they said solemnly.

One spring day, not long after, the very water bug who had suggested the plan found himself climbing up the lily stalk. Up, up, up, he went. Before he knew what
was happening, he had broke through the surface of the water and fallen onto the broad, green lily pad above.

When he awoke, he looked about with surprise. He couldn't believe what he saw. A startling change had come to his old body. His movement revealed four silver
wings and a long tail. Even as he struggled, he felt an impulse to move his wings...The warmth of the sun soon dried the moisture from the new body. He moved his
wings again and suddenly found himself up above the water. He had become a dragonfly!!

Swooping and dipping in great curves, he flew through the air. He felt exhilarated in the new atmosphere. By and by the new dragonfly lighted happily on a lily pad to
rest. Then it was that he chanced to look below to the bottom of the pond. Why, he was right above his old friends, the water bugs! There they were scurrying
around, just as he had been doing some time before.

The dragonfly remembered the promise: "The next one of us who climbs up the lily stalk will come back and tell where he or she went and why." Without thinking,
the dragonfly darted down. Suddenly he hit the surface of the water and bounced away. Now that he was a dragonfly, he could no longer go into the water...

"I can't return!" he said in dismay. "At least, I tried. But I can't keep my promise. Even if I could go back, not one of the water bugs would know me in my new
body. I guess I'll just have to wait until they become dragonflies too. Then they'll understand what has happened to me, and where I went."

And the dragonfly winged off happily into its wonderful new world of sun and air.......

Krystal and Seth,
My heart goes out to you and you are in my thoughts and prayers.  Take comfort in knowing the Bently is with God and Grandpa now.  They will take care of him until your chores here on Earth are done.

Take comfort in knowing that now you have a special guardian angel to watch over you.

OBITUARY

Bently Boo Boo Greathouse-Thompson

8 December, 2010 – 8 December, 2010

Wood-Kortright-Borkoski Funeral Home

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