Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Happy birthday, Babe. I hope Heaven is treating you well because I’m missing you like crazy. I took the day off work and I’m gonna celebrate you on your special day AND Star Wars Day! I wish I could go back in time to that last birthday again. We went to our favorite Mexican restaurant because you said it would double as a Cinco De Mayo celebration since that’s tomorrow. I even remember what you ordered and that big smile on your face. You will forever be 25 even tho I have continued to get older and older. I can’t wait to throw these arms around your neck one day when I get to come see you. I love you as much today as I ever have. Time changes nothing but makes me miss you more and more. I’m so in love with you, my brown-eyed boy. Happy birthday. I hope you’re proud of me and how I choose to celebrate your day. No I won’t be watching Star Wars or even Full Metal Jacket movie. I’m gonna do something WAY BETTER!! Send me a sign like always. Forever my 404 xoxoxo

Laura Gibson, Surviving Spouse
of Ofc. Allen W. Gibson, Jr. EOW: 04/25/98

May 4, 2023

Happy 27th Wedding Anniversary, Babe! I love you so much and can't wait "till you kiss the tears right off my face, when you walk me through those gates, feel her heartbeat next to mine...make up for lost time". Thank you for sending me daily signs and I will be watching for a special one today! Love you as much as I did on that beautiful Saturday in 1996. xoxo
Love always,
Laura

Laura Gibson, Surviving Spouse
of Ofc. Allen W. Gibson, Jr. EOW: 04/25/98

April 27, 2023

Officer Gibson,
On today, the 25th anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for the citizens of Waverly. And to your Family and loved ones, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

R.I.P.
USBP

Anonymous
United States Border Patrol

April 25, 2023

04/25/23 will be 25 years since you were taken. I still think of you all the time. I see signs you are still with me every single day. I love you more than I have ever loved you and I cannot wait to see you when I get to Heaven. Please keep watching over me and sending me signs. Your flag still sleeps beside my bed and your badge around my neck.
Forever yours. (Happy Anniversary 4/27)
Love always,
Laura

Laura Gibson, Surviving Spouse
of Ofc. Allen W. Gibson, Jr. EOW: 04/25/98

April 24, 2023

Driving thru your state
awoke all of my senses
to memories of you.
The scent of flowers blossom,
the sites of an old country road
conjured images of summers.
Summers you filled with joy, and special moments with your little one,
family and friends.

What a gift would it be
to see you again.
To be able to share a laugh
and call you old man, old friend.
The life you should have lived
I have no doubt would have been filled with love and eternal laughter.
The same laughter you etched in our hearts.
May that laughter be inherent in your kin.
Rest easy friend
Your loss is felt

You will always be remembered and adored
Margie Salas RN, AKA by you as Feliciano

October 31, 2022

So much I want say to you... I HONOR YOU DEAR FRIEND

You will always be remembered and adored
Margie Salas RN, AKA by you as Feliciano

May 8, 2022

Today is April 25 2022. A lot of time has passed and things have changed but one thing that has stayed the same is the hurt in my heart. Losing you has broke our family and I can't fix that. I love you and miss you. God bless me with the best brother.You are the definition of a true hero.

Douglas Gibson
Brother

April 25, 2022

You are not Forgotten My Friend !

Captain Dave Shidell
Emporia Police Department. (Former Waverly Police Department)

April 25, 2022

Some days it feels like the years have flown by and others it seems like an eternity. We all miss you dearly and wish you were here. You were such an amazing daddy and I know if you were here you would be an amazing papaw to your 3 amazing grandchildren. They are growing up so fast! Isabella is 12, Emmalyn is 9, and Camden is 4 ( your name is carried on as his middle name). They all know who you are and love you dearly. You are forever our HERO! I love you daddy and I will 10-25 you again!

Crissana Gibson
Daughter

November 23, 2021

Ofcr. Gibson,

I read sadly today of your struggle to do right for your community and your untimely loss to your family and Blue Family. I too lost two good friends in the line of duty many years ago. I think of and miss them everyday. That is how I know YOU are not forgotten, Sir. So unfortunate your tour was so short. Mine has been long and heavy with the loss of friends and fellow LEO's over the years. While local justice seemed to not have been done in your case it SEEMS the Federal system did the proper thing. I pray they are still right there and will be until they DIE. They should have to look at your official portrait on the walls of their cells everyday.

God Bless you Sir.

Rest well, we have the watch for now, and we will all be reunited when we follow you to Glory.

Dpty.Shrff. Dwayne E. Larriviere
Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office, La.
Co-LEO/Wrkr of:
M/Tpr. Stephen H. Gray,
Louisiana State Police, EOW: May 29, 1995

November 5, 2021

For some time I have been wanting to reconnect with you but life happened and before you know it time escapes. I never doubted you would be of service to others, to me you will always be the strong, flawless, kind, compassionate and loving super human I remember. I must be dreaming, has my search for you really lead me to this page? I can't imagine a world your no longer a part of. I will say a special prayer for your entire family especially for your daughter Crissana. I will hold with adoration the pics of your beautiful contagious smile and crazy antics and think fondly of the time in Parris Island S.C. 1994; You were always in sight despite the filled fields of camouflage. Your tenacity, intense take charge zest for life attitude will forever be engraved in my heart. We never said goodbye dear friend and never will. I was blessed to have met you.

Your unforgettable I will remember you always
Margie Salas RN, AKA Feliciano

Margie Salas, RN
Long lost Friend and Travel RN from New York/California

August 10, 2021

Rest in peace sir. Your sacrifice will never be forgotten... And to your wife Laura. You will forevermore be in my thoughts and prayers. Reading your writings is by far one of the hardest, and sweetest things I've ever come across. I'm so sorry for your Loss and continued heartache. Your husbands bravery and the loss will be in my thoughts for the rest of my law enforcement career. God bless you and your family

Officer Recruit David Muncy
Hopewell Police Department

February 18, 2021

Happy anniversary, my love. I can’t wait till you kiss the tears right off my face as you walk me through those gates. Feel your heartbeat next to mine and we make up for lost time. I love you ❤️

Laura
Wife

April 27, 2020

I miss you. I dreamed about you last night. Like so many other dreams, it leaves me so sad and missing you. I dreamed I found out you were still alive and just in the hospital. I rushed to you. You were smiling. I told you I was taking you home now. I was so glad you were alive. Omg it’s so crazy to miss someone this much after all these years. I love u so much. Keep sending me dreams and signs. I’m watching for them. xoxoxo

Laura Gibson
Wife

September 30, 2019

Rest in peace Patrolman Gibson.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 22, 2019

Happy birthday! I hope you are celebrating in Heaven today. Miss and love u so much! xoxoxo

Laura
Wife

May 4, 2019

I still hate 4/25. I can’t believe you have been gone 21 years. I still miss and love you. Happy anniversary 4/27. Enjoy Heaven and we will be together soon.

Laura
Wife

April 27, 2019

Happy Birthday, Allen. You would have been 46 today. I will celebrate your birthday and Cinco de Mayo by having your favorite Mexican dish! :) Hope you are celebrating in Heaven. I'm sure you and Dad are up to something lol. Watch over us from above. xoxo

Laura
Wife

May 4, 2018

Happy anniversary. It would have been our 22 :’(
xoxoxo

Laura
Wife

April 27, 2018

Yesterday was hard. I can honestly say that even after 20 years the pain is still right there. Until we meet again, I will keep you alive in my heart.

Laura
Wife

April 26, 2018

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Matthew 5:9

Marshal Chris Di Gerolamo
Federal Air Marshal Service

April 25, 2018

Some days if feels like an eternity...some days like it was yesterday. I'm in a much better place now than I was almost twenty years ago, there's no doubt about that. And although I don't go around grieving all the time, the grief is still there...and always will be. And although some wouldn't understand this, I am glad it's there. I never want to forget. I may never be "normal", but this is my "normal". It is who I am and that is okay. -xoxo


I read this online and loved it so much. This “old guy” gets it. He really, really gets it. He puts into words what I have tried my whole life to. God bless this man and his words of wisdom. Here’s what he wrote about grief:

“Alright, here goes. I’m old. What that means is that I’ve survived (so far) and a lot of people I’ve known and loved did not. I’ve lost friends, best friends, acquaintances, co-workers, grandparents, mom, relatives, teachers, mentors, students, neighbors, and a host of other folks. I have no children, and I can’t imagine the pain it must be to lose a child. But here’s my two cents.

I wish I could say you get used to people dying. I never did. I don’t want to. It tears a hole through me whenever somebody I love dies, no matter the circumstances. But I don’t want it to ‘not matter.’ I don’t want it to be something that just passes. My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love. So be it.

Scars are a testament to life. Scars are a testament that I can love deeply and live deeply and be cut, or even gouged, and that I can heal and continue to live and continue to love. And the scar tissue is stronger than the original flesh ever was. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are only ugly to people who can’t see.

As for grief, you’ll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you’re drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it’s some physical thing. Maybe it’s a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it’s a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.

In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don’t even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you’ll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out.
But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what’s going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything…and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life.

Somewhere down the line, and it’s different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O’Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you’ll come out.

Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don’t really want them to. But you learn that you’ll survive them. And other waves will come. And you’ll survive them too. If you’re lucky, you’ll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks.”

Laura
Wife

October 17, 2017

Happy Father's Day in Heaven.

Laura

June 18, 2017

Thinking of you as Police Memorial Week rolls on. Seeing your name on the wall in Washington seems so permanent. It's still just so hard.

Laura
Wife

May 16, 2017

Happy Birthday!! You would have been 45 today. I hope you are enjoying a wonderful celebration in Heaven today. I still remember your last birthday. You were 25 and we had a wonderful time celebrating your birthday at your favorite restaurant. Of course we had no idea it would be your last. I guess the words to this song says it best: "And now I'm glad I didn't know, the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance. I could've missed the pain, but I'd of had to miss the dance." And I wouldn't have missed that for the world. Happy Birthday and thank you for all the memories.

Laura
Wife

May 4, 2017