Juvenile
06-15-2004, 06:55 AM
Here in Ohio, I play at RUSH Paintball. It's made me the player I am today, helped me grow, and I love the guys there. Without RUSH, and a lot of the members of team RUSH, I wouldn't be so into paintball. I never forget the people that help me, and today is very hard for me. I just learned that one of the members of team RUSH has passed away from his fight with cancer.
This was posted on the RUSH Website:
Ryan Dionne (March 4, 1987 - June 4, 2004)
http://www.rushpaintball.com/dbimages/0000/i0000566f.jpg
Ryan was only 17 when he passed away on friday June 4, 2004. Ryan spent almost the last two years fighting cancer. Ryan life consisted of baseball, football, paintball, and many other school and community activities. Ryan had so many dreams, he wanted to attend Notre Dame, and he wanted to serve in our country's Marine Corp. Ryan was very brave. courageous, outgoing, funny, friendly, an all around wonderful honest person. Ryan survived by his mother, Kathy (Stevens) Dionne, father leo "Jim" Dionne, sister Holli Dionne, and girlfriend Shana Wilson. He also survived by other family members in Ohio, Flordia, California. Ryan and his family will be in our prayers. We will miss him tremendously and will forever cherish the memories and moments we had with him.
It hit me hard to see someone who I had played with, laughed with, spoken with, had guidance from, just a true guy be taken away like that. He loved to paintball, even when he was fighting a battle with cancer that he knew he could not win. His cancer had been defeated in 2002, but in 2003 it relapsed and grew worse. I am lost for words because I've never truly realized how sad the passing of a friend can be, and at 17 he was full of life, just like me. I wonder why, just why...
This was posted on the RUSH Website:
Ryan Dionne (March 4, 1987 - June 4, 2004)
http://www.rushpaintball.com/dbimages/0000/i0000566f.jpg
Ryan was only 17 when he passed away on friday June 4, 2004. Ryan spent almost the last two years fighting cancer. Ryan life consisted of baseball, football, paintball, and many other school and community activities. Ryan had so many dreams, he wanted to attend Notre Dame, and he wanted to serve in our country's Marine Corp. Ryan was very brave. courageous, outgoing, funny, friendly, an all around wonderful honest person. Ryan survived by his mother, Kathy (Stevens) Dionne, father leo "Jim" Dionne, sister Holli Dionne, and girlfriend Shana Wilson. He also survived by other family members in Ohio, Flordia, California. Ryan and his family will be in our prayers. We will miss him tremendously and will forever cherish the memories and moments we had with him.
It hit me hard to see someone who I had played with, laughed with, spoken with, had guidance from, just a true guy be taken away like that. He loved to paintball, even when he was fighting a battle with cancer that he knew he could not win. His cancer had been defeated in 2002, but in 2003 it relapsed and grew worse. I am lost for words because I've never truly realized how sad the passing of a friend can be, and at 17 he was full of life, just like me. I wonder why, just why...