Share your thoughts, memories and condolences with the family and friends of Laura Gainey.
Partagez vos pensées, souvenirs et condoléances avec la famille et les amis de Laura Gainey.
Share your thoughts, memories and condolences with the family and friends of Laura Gainey.
Partagez vos pensées, souvenirs et condoléances avec la famille et les amis de Laura Gainey.
Une sirène dans le château du Roi de la Mer.
My deepest condolences to the Gainey family.
I am really really sorry.
Beti
My deepest condolences to the Gainey family on your loss.
God Bless you all.
Amber
Please let people know about gaineyfoundation.com
This is the site set up by her family in her memory. Please send people to that site to learn more about it.
Bev H
Being a canadian fan i give my greatest and deepest sympothy to the gainy family for there loss of a loved one. all you can do is hope and pray and stay strong.
A Friend from Nanaimo.
Laura was the very first person i met in Nanaimo over 4 years ago. She quickly became one of my best friends here. We shared the same interest in outdoor activites and the enviroment.
It’s been hard this past month. Sometimes it doesn’t feel real. I really feel for Lauras family. She always talked highly of her family and knew that it was important to have them close in her life.
I want you to know that she was an irreplaceable soul and that she touched so many people out here on the West Coast and her passion for life will now live through us all. I have some things that Laura has given me over the last 4 years and I will cherish them. I am going to miss her.
In Feb. I will be holding a get together in Nanaimo for anyone that knew Laura even for a little while. It will give us a chance to share our stories and our memories. Please contact me if you would like to come.
I feel privledge to have known someone so passionate and I will always remember her and her warm hugs.
kristin.ross@gmail.com
Thanks, take care,
Kristin Ross, Nanaimo, BC
To the Gainey Family you have my deepest condolences.Doing somthing like this has been on my mind since the accident and I finally realized I might be able to connect in this manner.
Laura you were a wonderful young woman when I met you. Brave and courageous.You truly inspired me and I never really forgot you.Thank you for touching my life at a time when I was really on a journey of self discovery.You gave me such a feeling of comraderie and the gift you gave me I still have and look at regularly.
I met Laura at The Haliburton School of Arts the summer of 2001.We were in the same class.I have some wonderful pictures of her. She truly was special.
Blessings to you Little Angel Mermaid and to your family as well.
Fellow Searcher
Jo
Dear Gainey Family
I would like to express my most heart felt sympathy for your sorrow. I wish I could have hade the courage to write sooner, to be able to say the magic words to make it all better ,or offer the magic spell to you that would bring her home to you. I am a fisherman from Nova Scotia who fished side by side with my Dad for over 15 years. On December 1 2006, my Dad was lost at sea. After a night of Hell, my Dad’s body was recovered the next day. My entirer Family was still in shock and mourning over the loss of my Dad, when we heard the news of your Daughter.I could not bring my self to write sooner because I did not want to upset your family.I did not want you to lose hope and I hope my family’s prayers crossed the many miles to your family. It must be very difficult to deal with your emotions and feelings when it is in the public eye. No one knows what you are going threw or can even imagine. Family and Faith has kept me going and I hope yours can for you as well. I have not heard the magic words or received the magic spell yet or know that they even exist for me, but I do hope your Family finds peace in this difficult time. My Dad’s name was (Michael Brian Newell) and he was a great man and with the many letters your daughter (Laura) must be a great woman as well.
Take care and stay strong
Alen Newell
Nova Scotia
Canada
I came across Laura’s story just by chance, looking for something else in the web the incident popped up. I never knew Laura and I don’t think I’d ever would but when I saw her picture and learned a bit about her I knew this person was someone I could relate to. Coming from a fishing village northwest of Spain I know what it is to lose someone at sea, not being able to find a body you can bury it’s probably the hardest thing. I learned about Laura’s accident the day after it happened as I said looking for something else in the web and ever since I kept my eye on the story hoping she would be found. I then went home for Xmas (as I live in London) and I couldn’t keep myself from counting the days in the calendar she’s been missing and hoping, fiercely hoping she’ll be alright. I’m not a religious person so I won’t be offering any prayers but I just keep my hope, my hope that people like Laura make the world move. Their willingness to live is stronger that anything else and we should celebrate people like her.
Here it is to you Laura.
My best,
Maria
I was shocked when I heard about Laura. I went to high school with her in Dallas at Lexington Academy, and I only knew her for a year and we never really talked much. But the one thing I can remember most was one day at lunch when something absolutely hilarious happened, she opened up with this amazingly addictive laugh that just resonated through the cafeteria…it took most of us by surprise as she was pretty quiet for the first couple of months she was there.
I am saddened that a fellow mariner has been lost to the sea as two of my friends were as well. I wish I had more than one year with her, maybe I could have known her a bit more.
Mr. Gainey, I only met you once, but you and your family have my deepest condolences, Sir.
Laura, fair winds and following seas.
Very Respectfully,
GM1(SW) Jacob M. Frasier
United States Navy
Lexington Academy, Class of ‘96
usngunnersmate@yahoo.com