In Loving Memory of Michelle "Mikey" Eddington

Welcome. This website is dedicated to the memory of Michelle "Mikey" Eddington who passed away Friday, January 30, 2009 in a car accident. All content written below was contributed by friends and/or family.

Mikey came into my families life about six years ago. She was a friend of my grandson, James Kimbrell. She and her enteroge of friends were in and out. She was truly a special young lady with the sweetest spirit. We would laugh together and cry together. Our family adopted her as one of our own. She called my husband and me grandma and grrandpa. She actually lived with us for about five weeks. I am glad to have had that time with her and to learn how precious she was. I expect to look up any day and she her bouncing in the front door sayin "I'm home!" I loved her as if she were my own. We will all miss her smiling face and bubbly spirit. Mikey, you truly were one of a kind. May you dance with the angels. I love you baby girl and you will be missed by all.

Mikey came into my life through my son, James Kimbrell. She instantly became a part of my family. She won our hearts from day one. She called me "Mom" and my kids her brothers and sisters. She stayed with us for awhile and I cherish the time we had with her. She kept me up all hours of the night teaching me how to play video games. I still can't believe that I will never again go into James' room and find her asleep on the couch. We love you Mikey and you will be missed.

WOW!!! where to start ive known mikey since the days of Damron. i remember all the goth crap from back in the day and how cool we all thot it was haha. ill never forget the time we were all sitting in her room and i tried to call someone with her phone and all of the sudden this epicly evil voice pops up, "welcome to verizon wireless...." and i lookd at her wide eyed like a scared puppy and said, "i think i calld god!" she lookd at me and like a gunshot she said, " dont think im payin long distance so u can get intouch with yourself" lol!

i remember the 1st time callin her a "matchstick" for being a skinny & white with a red head haha she chased me around the house 4 like an hr!

i do recall a time when me, ben, lex, nate, mikey, and jill were at some asian food place and ben had been trying to pry this fortune out of his fortune cookie without breaking it. he had been at this for like 30-45min and he finally got it out and began to open the fortune, but then in mid conversation jill reaches across the table and BAAMMM!!! the cookie was in pieces and he had the most priceless look of all time on his face. lex grabs the fortune and it said "1 look is worth 10,000 words" lol. we lost it! mikey was on the ground in tears she was laughin so hard literaly rolling on the ground after spitting her mountain dew all over the table. it was such a sitcom moment and i will never forget it.

ill never forget the time that she called me and jinks at like 2 in the morning in tears cuz "someone" had just broken up with her for the 2nd time. me and mike almost left rite there but she told us to wait til the next day so me and jinks met up with james and jerry early that morning and went to a liquor store to get tons of boxes to move her out whether it was voluntary or kicking and screaming. we drove out to morresville and packd her and scooped her up. then she was livin with me 4 the next couple of months which entailed getting a 24hr notice and being kickd out of our place @ paces river. so 4 that 24hrs we were on the road applying to every apartment complex in town haha. every place we went to kept tellin us that we were a cute couple and askd how long we had been dating lol we were both like "as if". so we wud make these off the wall stories abt where we met and our dating adventures. every complex was a different story and some were quite apolling and a little offensive. it was quite the day!

i never got to meet her current boyfriend but she seemd to actually be genuinely happy with him which i was happy 4 bcuz of her unreasonably long bad streak poor girl. i hope he can find peace as well knowing that he was 1 of the few to make her happy. in a time like this u tend to only think abt the bad but u will ,in time, only remember the good things. we had our ups and downs but so does everyone in life. i think what realy matters is that i did know her and i did love her like a sister even between all of the contravercial times. i think that the time we have with someone is more important than the time we have lost. remember the past, dont obssesse over the present and look toward the future. i hope all of you like me that knew here will still know her 4 leaving a little piece of herself in all of us and to her mother, greg, grandma, other family, and all of her friends who may need a little help thru this im always willing to lend an ear (NO, im not a priest, just puttin that out there.) whether i know u or not im here to help however i can.

I was just 1 person no better than her but i am now a better person for knowing her.

i find "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" a very appropriate song. act 2 scene 4 if i'm not mistaken. phantom of the opera, it's been playing over and over in my head since i found out.

i find that i'm not much for words, not that i can say anything that anyone else hasn't already. so please let these lyrics that have been playing in my head for days speak for me.

You were once
my one companion . . .
you were all
that mattered . . .
You were once
a friend and father -
then my world
was shattered . . .

Wishing you were
somehow here again . . .
wishing you were
somehow near . . .
Sometimes it seemed
if I just dreamed,
somehow you would
be here . . .

Wishing I could
hear your voice again . . .
knowing that I
never would . . .
Dreaming of you
won't help me to do
all that you dreamed
I could . . .

Passing bells
and sculpted angels,
cold and monumental,
seem, for you,
the wrong companions -
you were warm and gentle . . .

Too many years
fighting back tears . . .
Why can't the past
just die . . .?

Wishing you were
somehow here again . . .
knowing we must
say goodbye . . .
Try to forgive . . .
teach me to live . . .
give me the strength
to try . . .

No more memories,
no more silent tears . . .
No more gazing across
the wasted years . . .
Help me say
goodbye.

i'm going to miss that firey red head. my duet partner in crime, oh how i'll miss that voice. she could chew me up and spit me out with how good she was and yet she would never accept that she was any better than i was. i'm going to miss the long talks, the random outings so that we could belt phantom of the opera at the top of our lungs. she kept things alive and kickin.

she came into work thursday night, she was going to call me so we could go have lunch this week. i can't get her sneeze out of my head. i remember the first time i heard her sneeze. i looked at her and she looked back, i asked her if she had a mouse. she said no and asked me why i asked. i didn't answer just went back to whatever it was we were doing. she sneezes again and i saw her do it that time. i laughed! oh how i laughed, rolled on the floor. i think i got the hiccups. there was no reason for why it struck me so funny but it did. a sit up and she looks at me and asks "are you done", which almost throws me into another fit of laughter.