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Monday, September 21, 2020
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This past summer, a friend of mine was planting trees in the front yard of his new home. He asked if I wanted to plant one on condition I give it a name. So I did, and named it Chicago in memory of Robert. So far, the tree is doing well.
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Kevin senne lit a candle
Friday, July 3, 2020
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I remember the day I left and the day you called about 6months later....i picked you up in my Toyota Corolla my girlfriend lol OMG did she ever get a reality check on who I described you to be. I just said babe he is Bo. That smile the hug we gave and the pain I saw. I cry still at what happened and I cannot seem to let anything go
I finished what I needed and I honor you still in my thoughts and when I try to write.
I miss your calls i miss the things we created together.
You are in my heart and my thoughts
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Scott Gutches uploaded photo(s)
Monday, March 30, 2020
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Two poems by Robert. Even after he left the writing workshop, we continued to send each other rough drafts of our work. Robert's was the only critique, other than Jim Ciletti's, I looked forward to. And I was honored that he thought enough of my writing to trust me with the first readings of his own. And man, could he write! Both in quality and proclivity. He'd fill up 6 composition books in the time it would take me to go through half of ONE. It was as much inspiring as it was intimidating. One day, in the workshop, we decided to present each other's works. It was cool to hear my own stuff in Robert's voice and style. I miss his voice. The way it would move up and down in waves, pausing here and there for effect, leaving his audience stunned, but always wanting more.
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Jim ciletti Posted Mar 31, 2020 at 10:31 PM
I just learned of Bo’s passing and my heart is so heavy. Perhaps he is wearing that speedo he wrote about and made us all laugh; or that image of apartment building fire escapes as the skeleton backbone of Chicago. Bo, one of the best writers ever in my workshop, perhaps he has a story yet, bend your ear, whisper a prayer for him. Jim Ciletti.
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Scott Gutches uploaded photo(s)
Monday, March 30, 2020
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Towards the end of this letter, Robert tells me, "Scott, you are by far the better writer and I only wish I could lay it down like you do." Oh, Robert! As much as I appreciate that compliment, especially from a poet like you, I cannot completely accept it knowing that YOU were the one whose writing grabbed ME by the throat, shook me awake, and screamed "Don't come back until you have something worth saying! Something real!"
And after you exited our workshop, Jim had a guest writer come in - young, local Colorado Springs poet whom you would have enjoyed. He went around the group, asking each of us who our favorite writer was. I swear on your book of Rimbaud my answer was "Robert Roeder." He asked me who that was, and I told him all about you. It genuinely moved him that I chose a peer over the canned responses some of the other cats in the workshop gave. I don't remember what my response was to this letter, but I wouldn't be surprised if I told you about this moment. Because this is just one example of many where your presence lingered long after you left the room.
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Monday, March 30, 2020
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One of the last letters I received from Robert. I find comfort in the fact that he writes, "Anyway, on your writing; every time I feel overwhelmed or blocked I always re-read a letter from Rimbaud to George Izambard..." I don't think Robert could have or would have ever believed that his letters do the same for me. They always will.
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Scott Gutches lit a candle
Saturday, March 28, 2020
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For my friend, fellow poet, and literary co-conspirator, "Chicago." I have been searching and searching for you for 5 years, hoping to reconnect, looking forward to heading to the Mercury Cafe, reading our work, and having long conversations over coffee and cigarettes. I never would have dreamed I'd find you here. This is devastating. I am heartbroken. Your poem "West" lifted me out of pretentious writing and into the stratosphere of existential authenticity. You were brilliant! You were able to write about darker things in such a tender way. Rest in peace, my friend, my brother, my favorite poet.
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Barb Roeder lit a candle
Friday, August 23, 2019
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Barb Roeder lit a candle
Thursday, May 23, 2019
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The Broken Little Sister posted a condolence
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
I love you Bo. So much it hurts. I need you too big brother. I feel like another injustice has been done to you... I feel like it's so horribly wrong for me to be here, alive and breathing, while you were so cruelly taken away. You were so brilliant, and talented, and funny and every single person that met you loved and adored you. You affected people's lives in such profound and amazing ways... you are the one that should be here enjoying your life, not me. I don't know how I'm expected to ever be me again...to be ok. I go through the motions and routines of daily living but that's all it is and only to keep people from locking me up in jail or a psychiatric facility. Even as I write to you or when I talk to you... I always feel like the oxygen has been sucked out of my lungs; my heart hurts so bad that it takes my breath away from me. These words will never be enough to convey how much you meant to me...how much I needed you...how much I will always love you my big brother.
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Kelly Roeder lit a candle
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
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I love you Bo, my one and only big brother, whom I hero-worshipped all of my days and strived to make you proud to call me your sister. You will never be forgotten or put to the back burner of my mind, no matter how much time passes. I miss you so excruciatingly and will only truly breathe again when I am back at your side. I love you through eternity and from before time began.
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Kelly Roeder posted a symbolic gesture
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
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Kelly Roeder posted a symbolic gesture
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
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Kelly Roeder posted a condolence
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Bo,
Today is December 12th, 2017. One more week exactly and you will have been gone from my life for 2 years. I don't know how 2 years have flown by so quickly. It still feels like it all happened yesterday to me. Sometimes I still think it's just a bad dream or that it wasn't really even you, that it's an awful joke somebody played on me, because I still don't believe that person on the hospital bed looked like my big brother...not at all. Similar maybe...but not you!! It comforts me sometimes believing it wasn't you. I feel a little peace sometimes when I let myself believe the fairy tale I've created. But sooner or later my reality always invades and continues to wage war on my sanity and thus, my stability. I'm on the fence about my own life: I'm sure you've been keeping an eye on me so I'm sure you know about my 6 suicide attempts in the first 18 months after you left me. I know that's not what you want for me to do but you of all people I know at least understand why that's been my only option. I was closer to you big brother than anyone ever since even before our births. Our connection surpassed time and space and distance, literally and figuratively. You were the other half of me and my soul is incomplete and disconnected without you. I always thought we'd be together as family...FINALLY...after Colorado released it's unrelentless grip on your freedom to be in society. When you did come back to us it was like an indescribable excitement and a dawning realization that we'd finally get to experience a union of sibling oneness. I had so many plans for you and I. Just to be able to hang out with you and do nothing or something or whatever was more than enough to make me smile and look forward to our future as a family. But I was foolish to think I could have plans laid out for us...not us....never us. Our entire lives were a series of sadistic and tragic events predestined by a God I can only assume is hell-bent on utterly destroying any semblance of us Roeders. I loved you and my Lily-boo more than anything or anyone since the existence of the universe...so of course you and Lily were both taken...stolen....eviscerated from my life with no thought given as to the detrimental effects it would have on me. I miss you so much...everyday I feel an agonizing ripping in my chest, my heart being torn away from my soul as my soul cries out it's desperation to no avail. I need you and you are not here. How do I force myself to even want to go on breathing when my reason for it is gone forever?
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Kelly Roeder posted a symbolic gesture
Saturday, March 18, 2017
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Kelly Roeder posted a condolence
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Hey Big Brother
I forgot to tell you that me and Jared are together now. He is super sweet to me and I like him and his girls lots!! So please don't worry about me.
He's funny because he trips out sometimes about me being your little sister but I told him you would be ok with it because you just want me to be happy. And Jared makes me happy!
We talk about you a lot, which really helps me. I like to hear stories about you. You have lots of people who loved you and whose lives you affected. More than you'd think. But you were super awesome so it's not a surprise.
I love you always Bo.
Love, Kelly
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Kelly Roeder posted a condolence
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Hi big brother
I just want to tell you I miss you so much. My world has been turned upside down since you've been gone. Nothing is the same without you here.
I have good days...sometimes, not often. Mostly I cry myself to sleep at night talking to you.
I still can't understand how this is right. How you can be gone forever...especially because I need you so much. I've always needed you Bo!!
You were so brilliant and artistic. I still have the last drawing you made me for my birthday. I have pictures of you everywhere. It's hard to look at them sometimes....it just makes me want to be where you are.
I tried to come to you but I'm pretty sure you prevented that. I only did it because my heart is so broken without you. My life will never be the same again.
Why couldn't you have just stayed?? I just got you back and had so many plans for us. And now you're gone forever.
I miss you...I miss you so much. And I love you more than you could ever imagine. You were my idol and my hero. I will always love you Bo.
Love,
Your Brokenhearted Little Sister Kelly (Ducky)
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Kelly Roeder uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, March 18, 2017
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My brother Bo with his infectious smile
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Kelly Roeder uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, March 18, 2017
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Bo with his niece Lily
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A friend posted a condolence
Friday, August 26, 2016
I think of you a lot.... I believe i always will.
We had some really great laughs..
You taught me to really write.
There is a place for you in my heart my friend
Ill carry that with me forever.
Ill write you here from time to time....
I think you would like that...to know how your thought of.
I still have your photo and your bukowski post to me...
I hope there is peace...and no fear with you now.
Ill talk to you soon Bo.
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Friday, December 25, 2015
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barb saben lit a candle
Friday, December 25, 2015
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barb saben posted a condolence
Friday, December 25, 2015
Oh my precious bird of paradise my Bo I will. Weep forever and be with you in time. A mothers love never dies I love you baby
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