Please feel free to add your comments, memories or thoughts about Katelyn, the website or the scholarship fund. We appreciate that you have visited the website and hope that you may find solace in reflecting, as well as consider the impact the Katelyn Joy Derstine Scholarship Fund, Inc. has had and will have for many young aspiring high school ladies in the Sarasota community.
Dec 19, 2008
Oct 17, 2008
Im thankful to be a part of this ''family'' and I know we all still think about Katelyn all the time and how many lives she is still touching... Thank you Bambi for making something so wonderful that we can visit and share our love.
Oct 07, 2008
Miss you lots, Aunt Tawn
Sep 09, 2008
What a lovely tribute site!
We are so very honored to be a small part of making Katelyn Joy's beautiful "fly high" butterfly artwork come to life with sparkle.
xoxo
Lee & Andrew
Aug 04, 2008
8/4/08
YESTERDAY I WAS SITTING ON MY DECK LOOKING AT HOW BIG OUR BUTTERFLY BUSHES HAVE BECOME AND SAW 2 BUTTERFLIES DANCING TOGETHER AND I THOUGHT OF YOU
Jul 01, 2008
Kate,
Everytime I see a butterfly, I think of you. Everytime I see the Philadelphia Flyers play on t.v. I am reminded of you. I am sure you know that you are greatly missed, and I'm possitively sure your just as loved in Heaven as you were here on Earth.
Jun 14, 2008
A day never goes by that I don't think or pray for you Kate. You shall be held in the hearts of many for eternity.
Jun 01, 2008
Dear Bambi.
I just received the news of your daughter's passing today. With out knowing Katelyn, but with knowing you for many years, I am sure she was a wonderful human being. I still do not understand why so many young people are taken from us so early, but I guess we have to trust our faith that their are bigger plans for her.
Katelyn would be so proud of how you are remembering her with helping others. Stay strong, be healthy, and live life just as you are...you're awesome!!
Please send your family my best!
Love,
Dana Humes McKee
May 31, 2008
Bambi and family,
Though it's late, I wish to pass on my sincerest condolences in the loss of your daughter; she and my daughter Shawn both attended the daycare at Hatfield Quality Meats when they were little.
I happen to live near Katelyn's butterfly garden in Harleysville and butterflies are also an interest of mine since childhood. Late last summer I had a Monarch butterfly hatch for me and I released it in Katelyn's garden, since it seemed a safer place for it to get strong for it's flight back down South to Mexico.
I will continue to release any butterflies that hatch for me there and keep you and your family in my thoughts.
Sincerely,
Penny (Landis) Yoder
Harleysville, PA
May 27, 2008
I think that it was very special for our Lord to have sent her the most loving and peaceful gift of the butterfly. She must have been exceptionally special. Now, every time I see the butterfly, I will think of Katelyn.
I had been in a place where I also asked for a "sign", and I received my own special sign. And to this day, if I find myself "falling", God will send me His sign,without me asking,and I cheer up every time. God is so awesome! Katelyn is special.
Jan 30, 2008
katelyn truly was such a beautiful and amazing person. i first met her in cheerleading when we were 13 and 14 years old. she was so spunky, fun, confident and full of life. i went to school with her and saw her grow more and more, accomplishing each goal that she set herself up to, and surpassing more along the way than most at our age. her memorial was truly one of the most upsetting but uplifting moments in my life and i will never forget her. i have her mothers favroties picture of her on my mirror in my room and i look at her everyday. she is truly beautiful, in every way possible. fly high katelyn...
ashley little
Dec 31, 2007
There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of Katelyn! She truely impacted me as a person, sister, and friend. xoxo
Dec 31, 2007
There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of Katelyn! She truely impacted me as a person, sister, and friend. xoxo
Dec 30, 2007
I AM THE CLINIC AIDE AT RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL. WHEN I MET KATELYN SHE HAD JUST TURNED 18 YRS. OLD. I WAS SO PROUD OF HER WHEN SHE TOLD ME SHE HAD WON THE MOST TALENTED AT THE LADY RAM PAGENT. I DIDN'T KNOW HER WELL BUT THE LITTLE BIT I DID I KNEW SHE WAS A WONDERFUL YOUNG LADY WITH A BIG HEART.
Dec 05, 2007
katelyn deserved to have such precious tributes dedicated in her name...we miss her dearly and seeing her love spread in so many ways, including this special website..means the world!!! She is a true angel...thank you for the butterflies!!! We will be sharing the chrysalis's soon at our christmas celebration and new home..tree trimming party...the chrysalis will be the best gift to give our friends..and will spread the love of Katelyn
Dear Angel Katelyn,
Your spirit lives on through so many young and old
Many hearts have been touched by your legacy, so I am told.
May the "Fly High" Award be a gift to Sarasota young girls
Wearing blue jeans, suits, any kind of uniform or pearls.
We honor your memory through this special scholarship site,
As we watch our butterflies and young ladies take flight!
Fly High
Love
Mom
12/2008