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Week Ago to day I attended my brothers funeral as I sat and listened to his favorite song play at the funeral I couldn't think of anything else but the good times we had. My brother was quite the dare devil. He jumped over a flaming table with a 10 speed or would jump on the trampoline with a snowboard. Anyway those were the good times but now he is gone I can’t help but think it should have been me, in fact I wish it was. The sad thing I guess was I didn’t even cry, am I human. My brother was only 23 he was to young to go and many people loved him including me most of all.

 

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After a night of hanging with his friends he decided to get some sleep. After a couple hours a sleep his friends got him up to go fishing, not knowing he would never return again. Once the reached their fishing location they had been weighting in the water for awhile when my brother bet he could swim across the lake in 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Well he is the type that worries about weird things such as stepping on something in the lake and getting hepatitis so he wore his shoes and pants. As he got further out about 24 feet he started to go under and his friend striped down to his boxers and jumped in to save him he did everything to save him but did not succeed. My brother was down there an hour before a rescue team of professional scuba divers recovered his body. Travis, my brother died, he did not make it.

 

Here is what is in the News paper article:

 

Orion graduate drowns

 

Web-posted Apr 18, 2004

 

23-year-old dies after attempting to swim across frigid lake

By CAROL HOPKINS

Of The Daily Oakland Press

A 23-year-old Oxford man drowned in Round Lake on Saturday morning while fishing with friends.

Police say Travis Towsley was fishing with two friends on the lake in Scripter Park when he reportedly told them he was going to swim across the lake.

He jumped into the frigid water, estimated to be about 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and did not resurface, police said.

His friends dialed 9-1-1 at about 8:20 a.m. for help.

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office's marine division responded and recovered Towsley's body 24 feet from shore in about 15 feet of water.

Late Saturday afternoon, Towsley's mother, Christina Hamp, stood in the duplex apartment she shared with her son. "He was my wild child," she said.

In the small living room, goldfish swam in a sparkling clean aquarium, and two parakeets fluttered in a large cage.

"He was a big nature lover," she said, pointing toward the birds. "He'd just made a condominium for them."

Towsley grew up in Charlevoix and graduated from Lake Orion High School.

He worked as a cook for Cottage Inn Pizza in downtown Oxford.

On Saturday, callers telephoning the pizzeria heard a recorded message stating the eatery was closed because of the "tragic loss of a young team member" and would reopen Sunday.

Steve Bowling, a friend of the family, said Towsley had gotten his life together and was planning to move to Ohio, where he was going to manage a Cottage Inn Pizza shop. "They'd given him an apartment and a car," Bowling said.

Neighbor Jason Feltz, 25, was shocked by Towsley's death. "We were just talking to him last night," he said. "He had a great sense of humor and was always playing his guitar."

Stacie Schiffman, 22, who lives next door, said Towsley had lots of friends, and he was always employed.

Bowling sat quietly, shaking his head. "His friends came and asked him to go fishing early this morning," he said. "They just walked to the lake."

Hamp, still coping with the recent Sagebrush Cantina restaurant fire in Lake Orion, where she worked as a member of the wait staff, said her son had struggled in his young life.

"He'd been in Grand Rapids, and I went and brought him here," she said.

"He lived trying to make sure his mom was happy and taken care of."

Towsley is survived by his mother; his father, Carl Towsley, a truck driver from Manton; and three brothers - Eric Hamp, 21, serving in the U.S. Air Force in Texas, and Joshua Hamp, 18, and Jacob Willis, 6, both of Oxford.

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I know how it feels man.

It's a good thing you're talking about it though, you need to get this out, and I'm sorry for your loss.

 

I lost a friend, who was blood to me, and it's not easy.

I blamed myself for over a year, and screwed so many peoples lives up.

 

All I can really say to you is, God has a plan for everyone, looks like your brother was sooner needed than anyone else.

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These are dark times when so many of us has lost somebody. I'm sorry for your loss. I fear the day my brother gets called up for duty after being out of the Army for so long. He'll get sent to Iraq. I fear the day that I lose him. As for you not crying, it's normal. Many cannot cry after trying to deal with a loss. You're doing the right thing though. You're talking about it and remembering the good times. That is all you can do. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers.

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I know what it's like to lose a brother. I lost one before Seph was born. It eats away at me everyday because Seph and I never knew my middle brother. I was too young to understand back then, but my parents said he died a few hours after birth, or so I remember. The only way I ever knew him was through the family pictures.

 

I understand that there's not much else I can say, but don't let your brother's death get you down. I'm sure he'd want you to enjoy your life and family to the best of your ability. He's strode into the Higher Planes now, and he'll be watching you from above, just like mine is now.

 

Rest In Peace, brother of Dark Lord.

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I'm sorry to hear this DarkLord :(.

When we loose someone we always tend to think that it should have been us instead. I guess thats because we feel that the person could've gotten more out of life than our selves. Just hang on to the good times, you and your brother had.

 

My condolances to you, your family and his friends.

 

-Clemme

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I offer my sincerest condolences to you and your family. It is never easy losing a loved one who is so close, and it's often hard to find comfort at such times. It's good that you can look back and remember the good times, and I can only reinforce that by saying cherish the times you had together. As long as he lives in your hearts and minds, he's never truly gone.

 

If you feel a need to talk about it, you know where we are.

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Darklord, I am truely sorry for your loss. I am sure he is watching over you right now. He is still with you, but not physically but mentally. You have all those experiances and memories of him. No one cant take those away. You will see your brother again Darklord, I know you will. So dont give up hope. If you ever need anyone, im here for ya. I know how losing a love one is. I lost my father almost 4 years ago. And plus you have the great people of the swamp to help you through your bad times.

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you have my deepest condolences. i myself lost a loved one last year. this year on May 25th will be one year since she has passed. it was my mother and i am still recovering in some ways more than others. I am sorry for your loss....but i am a firm believer in everything happens for a reason.

 

me for example: i lived with my mom my whole life living off her income. I never tried to find a job cuz i knew she would always be there. When she died i became the person that my mom was always trying to mold me into. that was a responsible adult who payed his own bills, and took care of himself. so in some ways my mom got what she wanted out of it.

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