Shelly Sue Pierce

Shelly Sue Pierce was born on Feb.25, l967.
She was the sweetest and prettiest little baby that I have ever seen.
I spent hours just looking at her
and counting her fingers and toes.
WhenI left the hospital and brought Shelly home,
it was easy to see she was the apple of her Daddy's eye.
Since I was a only child and had never been around babies
before I had to learn from Mom
I had to learn how to boil bottles and mix formula,
which was made with Karo syrup back then.
I had to learn alot and even though it was hard,
I was determined to be a good Mother.
Shelly was a good baby,
she seldom cried, she was so very sweet.
All too soon it was time for me to go back to work
Mom kept Shelly till she was 5 years old.
She got to see her walk for the first time at 9 months,
Shelly never did crawl, Mom potty trained her.
Everyday Dad would take her to the park to play.
He was so proud of his granddaughter.
When I would come home to pick her up
she would ask where is Daddy...
I think she was a Daddy's girl.
But she had her moments, she was a TomBoy all around.
She would climb fences and run across the street
and see the Peacocksthat the neighbor had.
Thats when she would get into trouble.
But as time went on Shelly grew to be a beautiful young lady,
she had the prettiest blonde hair and blue eyes.
When she was 5 years old, Tony told me to quit work
and be at home when she got home from school.
Shelly was very smart in school, did not get it from me! =)
But she loved school.
She started swimming when she was 5 years old,
by the time she was going into the 9th grade,
she was swimming and diving in competitions
Her school did not have a swimming pool.
I transfered her over to Glencliff
where she could keep competeing, she won alot of ribbons
When she went into the 10th grade like most girls
she went boy crazy and I hated to see that,
she gave up swimming, except at the Swimming Pool we belong too.
She had one boyfriend after another,
like most mothers I did not like any of them!
But she did and like a teenager would not listen to me,
we had a lot of fights over boys. But I loved her anyway.
Shelly was dating a boy named Ricky,
he had a old car with no seat belts in it.
On June 14,1986 Ricky came to pick up Shelly
they were going to Shelly's company picnic,
she worked for Royal Insurance Co. at the time.
On the way home, Ricky decided he wanted to drag race.
Oh God why didn't he wait? Why with my baby in the car?
Ricky lost control of the car,
it flipped over 3 times throwing them both out,
the car landed on my precious Daughter.
He only got one scratch, but it killed my beautiful 19 year old daughter,
the only thing I had to look forward too was gone.
When hospital called they said come to Vanderbilt,
that there had been a accident
my husband ask how bad, all they said was just get here.
He knew it was bad and forgetting about me,
he ran out the door and went to the hospital,
There was no way I could go by myself.
When I told Mom we got her neighbor to take us.
Tony was crying so hard when I got their
He was fighting with the doctors,
they would not let him see Shelly.
They told us she was gone, and they just walk away.
Mom fainted and a nurse came to help her.
I don't remember much of anything
but hollering somebody give me my baby.
The next thing I knew we were back home, how I do not know.
Mom's blood pressure was up alot
and they had to give her something,
Dad was crying and saying he wanted to go see Shelly.
This was the most awful thing anyone can ever imagine.
Hell could not be this bad.
We had to go to the funeral home,
Shelly's Godmother Sue wanted to see her,
to this day she will not talk to me about it.
She did tell me half of her head was gone.
I think about that all the time.
Her Godmother still had nighmares about it.
I don't remember anything about the funeral
just crying and screaming and young people everywhere.
I was just in another world.
We buried Shelly on Daddy's Birthday. It was awful.
I just want everyone to know that losing Shelly was the end of my life,
how you go on must be the strength that God gives us.
I go through the motions of each day,
not a day goes by that I don't think of my precious Shelly
Sometimes her Dad and I just sit here and cry.
Their is not to much laughter in this house anymore.
I was looking forward to being a grandmother
now that will never be.
But life goes on whether you want it to or not.
The boy that killed by daughter.........
they did not do anything to him, took his license away for a year
Three weeks later he was out drag racing again.
He has never come around,
we have never heard from him.
Am I angry? Yes I am,
he did not care that he took a person life,
that person was my beautiful Shelly, my little girl.
he just goes on with his life.
I just do not understand and guess I will never understand.
But thanks to all of my wonderful internet friends
like my Sis (Monika) I have made it.
When I am feeling blue
I just write to them or call them and they are their to help me.
I hope and pray that this will never happen to you,
the worst thing in the world to go through is losing your only child.
Now I am here alone on this earth,
I have a very sweet husband that I love very much.
I have lost Mom and Dad now
Since I am an only child I have no family here.
This makes me sad,
I do not know what my purpose is here on earth.
I pray to God everynight to show me. But I have not had a sign yet.
God Bless you all.

Cynthia Pierce