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Tori Sleeping

Tim Schmanski — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:19:28 -0500

Thank you so much for your love, prayers and support

Tim Schmanski — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:13:01 -0500

I lost my baby girl a year ago today and I miss her greatly each and every day... I love you Tori. You are always in my heart and mind. You are my hero and I am forever grateful for the sacrifice you made. Your presence is constant and we try our best to live by your example. Please continue to guide us until we meet once again.

Thank you to all of you who continue to pray for and support our family. It is all greatly appreciated and needed by all of us.

Sincerely,

The Schmanski Family

Tori's Headstone

Tim Schmanski — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:43:02 -0400

Happy Birthday!

Shaid DePalma — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:56:16 -0400

Today, It's you birthday Angel! I know that you are having fun Dancing with the Angels! MISS you like crazy Tor!

Happy birthday to our beautiful angel Tori!!

Tim Schmanski — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Happy birthday to our beautiful angel Tori!! We love and miss you greatly and are doing our best to make it through this first birthday without you... We arrived in Orem very early Monday but at 1am went to to see your wonderful new headstone and of course the sprinklers were running!! We know you were smiling and laughing as we danced around all of the spray with flashlights to admire it :)

We also held a gathering at the cemetery for many friends and family. Please add Tori Schmanski as a Facebook friend to view many of the pictures. I will also post some on the Pray 4 Tori site. as well.

Thank you for checking in on Tori and our family.

With love,

The Schmanski Family

5 Years ago our lives changed forever

Tim Schmanski — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:18:51 -0400

Today marks the 5 year anniversary of Tori's brain injury and certainly tears were shed once more... But we chose to celebrate our time together as a family and begin our Father's Day with steak and salmon on the BBQ and watching Tori's favorite movie "She's the Man" which just 'happened' to be playing on ABC tonight. We love and miss you greatly Tori and can feel your presence. We look forward to being with you again.

Thank you all for your love and support. It's still very difficult for us all but "one day at a time" is the only mantra we can now follow.

With love,

The Schmanski Family

Tori's Celebration of Life

Tim Schmanski — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:13:38 -0500

Heaven's not a place that you go when ya die it's the moment in life when ya actually feel ALIVE.
-Tori Schmanski (early 2005)

Thank you for your patience and I have finally included the audio recordings and other items for Tori's Celebration of Life service below. I sincerely apologize for the delay. They have been ready for some time though I haven't in my ability to accumulate and present them for all of you. I tried many weeks ago but struggled greatly and just needed some time and to make it through this difficult holiday season first. We love and miss you so very much Tori...

Pages from Tori's wonderful Memorial Book will hopefully be posted on this page shortly as well.

Thank you all once more for the love, prayers and support for Tori and our family. It is greatly appreciated and we are truly blessed to have all of you in our lives.

Sincerely and forever grateful,

The Schmanski Family

Funeral Program (PDF)

Lyrics (PDF) from the songs played during the service

Tori's poem From Losing You (PDF) that was recited by Whitney and Brendan

Audio Recordings:

Disc 1 Track 1 (2:13) - Bishop Bob Cluff, Family Prayer - Todd Schmanski

Disc 1 Track 2 (39:19) - Bishop Bob Cluff opening, Opening Prayer - Mark Harris, Music 'Victoria' by John Mayer, Eulogy - Chris Dowling , Tribute - Whitney and Brendan, Tribute Song - Dance Company friends 'Praise the King', Tribute - McKenzie Lambright and Kourtney Boyack

Disc 2 Track 1 (38:24) - Tribute - McKenzie Lambright and Kourtney Boyack (cont), Poem - Sandy Schmanski, Speaker - Mark Harris, Music 'Hear you hear me' by Jimmy Eat World, Closing Prayer - Janine Schmanski Kopff, Hymn - 'God be with you till we meet again'

Disc 2 Track 2 (4:10) - Dedication of grave - Mike Newsome

The head panel tree of life (PDF). Inspired by Whitney and Maria from all the things Tori loved, was designed and created by Jakub Steiner.

Here are some select photos from the service as well taken by Eric Ward.

Tori's Tree

Tim Schmanski — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:45:55 -0500

Tori's Tree - This represents Tori's favorite things from the color orange, computers, flowers, dance, Paris, legos and music.

Orem's ways to connect us to where Tori has been laid to rest

Guy Lunardi — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:38:30 -0500

What's the weather like?
Orem city daily weather summary on location

What is it like right now?
Webcam view

What were the 24 hours like?
Short time lapse movie of the last 24-hour

All this information is provided by the City of Orem and Weather Underground. Having found myself wandering to their site quite often lately I wanted to share it with all of you. While we all have reasons to visit Orem, UT (great people there), it is sometimes difficult. Right as I am writing this, I am finding myself 7840 miles or 12617 kilometers away from there... The Weather Underground information site provides a way to stay connected. I am sure I am not alone.

So to make it as easy as possible to access, I have placed a widget on the right side of Tori's site for all that information to easily be available to all of us.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Love, -Guy

Thank you

Tim Schmanski — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:37:35 -0500

Thank you for all of the love, support and sympathy our family has received over the past nine days since Tori's passing and we are very grateful for all of those who could attend Tori's viewing, service, dedication and luncheon afterward. We consider all of you as part of our family.

We would also like to especially thank Paul and Sandy Schmanski for everything they have done for Tori and us over the past 4.5 years and for all of the preparation last week for the celebration of Tori's life. We love you both so much!!

To Guy Lunardi, you are and always will be a part of family and your heart, kindness and generosity are boundless. You amaze us continuously and we love you more than you can imagine. Guy also put in so much time and effort in making Tori's life celebration so special.

To Marilyn Hess who has also supported Tori and our family for many years, you are the ultimate example of what a friendship should entail. We love you so much as well and thank you for all you have for us during this very difficult past week.

Pictures, video and audio was taken during Tori's celebration of life and I will be putting together a presentation for all of those who could not attend over the next couple of weeks. It truly was special and I will share the celebration with all of you.

If you wish to see many of the wonderful pictures now please use Facebook and add 'Tori Schmanski' as a friend and I will approve the friendship.

Thank you all once more,

The Schmanski Family
Tim, Maria, Tori, Whitney and Brendan