Compelling stories from parents who have had children pass away. The parents tell how they felt and how they coped with their grief. What people said and did that helped and what did not.



HOLLY FOX VELLEKOOP worked for many years as a registered nurse at a state mental hospital. She retired as a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing for Penn State University. Holly has a murder mystery, “STONE HAVEN: Murder Along the River,” published by Avalon Books, a division of Thomas Bouregy Publishing of New York and has also had newspaper and magazine articles and poems published. She currently lives in Florida with her husband, Dr. Ronald Vellekoop.