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FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015
New Holy Communion
liturgical service
Beginning at 11 a.m. June 7, a
new weekly chapel service will be
held at the Prosser Chapel Annex,
Building #81502, and will offer a
traditional Protestant worship ex-
perience with Holy Communion
shared each Sunday. A fellowship
meal will follow the June 7 service think some people would argue that I en-
only.
For more information, call the
Garrison Chaplain’s Office at
520.533.1668/4778.
ASBP to hold blood drive here
Personnel from the Armed Ser-
vices Blood Program will hold a
blood drive from 3 to 9 p.m. June
9 at Fort Huachuca’s Eifler Fitness
Center. Make an appointment to
donate blood for Service members
at www.militaryblood.dod.mil.
Honor Guard plans open house
The Fort Huachuca Honor
Guard will hold an open house
from noon to 3 p.m. June 11 at
the Honor Guard facility, Build-
ing 70109. The public is invited to 15-year-old, it’s like JoAnne is right there.
learn about the roles Honor Guard
members play.
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frame picture hangs in Avery’s bedroom,
pictures of her mother.”
Once he was able to move forward, he
was able to find new love and begin to
start a new family.
“You know when I met Lindsey, I
tered a relationship with her sooner than
I should have,” Lokowich said. “I was
very fortunate that Lindsey was placed
in my path ... She would stop by my
house to help me fold laundry. We would
talk about the day, about Avery, about
JoAnne’s family and about that loss. We
weren’t so much dating as she was help-
ing me move through this.”
Lokowich and Lindsey now have a
family of their own with children: Abi-
gail and Jacob, 9-year-old twins, and Av-
ery. Luke said he often sees remnants of
JoAnne in Avery.
“JoAnne is walking, living, breathing
and smiling through her daughter,” Lo-
kowich said. “I’ve got a beautiful kid that
acts just like her mother and she never even
met this woman, but she’s got those pieces
and parts of her. When I argue with my
She is her mother’s daughter for sure.”
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Moving forward with Lindsey sub- my family. That was probably JoAnne’s
jected Lokowich to scrutiny from other
people. Some criticized his decision to re-
marry two years after the loss of Joanne.
“It was hard for some family members
to accept that I was starting to have an in-
terest in somebody else,” Lokowich said.
“There were a lot of people that didn’t
come to the wedding. For those critics I
would tell them that 13 years later it was
a good decision. I’m more happily mar-
ried today with Lindsey than the day I got
married to her. If you have healthy meth-
ods as a way to recover and move forward
from tragedy then no one can judge you
on the amount of time it takes.”
After all the grieving and the coping,
Lokowich decided to celebrate JoAnne’s
life. He said he believes her passing has
taught him that family is important and it
should never be taken for granted.
“Sometimes I feel like we have so
much safety in our society that tragedy
doesn’t strike often enough to realize
how good the good times are,” Lokowich
said.” “I still like to have nice things just abusive behavior, or they just close them-
like everyone else and have needs, wants,
and things that I care about. But they
don’t rise to the level of importance as
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biggest lesson to me that I can always
thank her for. She left me with a desire to
be a better husband and a better father. I
didn’t know what it could be like without
JoAnne and now being married a second
time I fully understand what it could pos-
sibly be without Lindsey and I’m not in-
terested in doing that.”
After the mourning process, Lokowich
said he thinks celebrating his passed love
is the right thing to do.
“I think JoAnne would absolutely
want me to celebrate her life as opposed
to mourning it,” Lokowich said. “That’s
always been my choice.”
Fifteen years after that tragedy that
shook his life, Lokowich is more grateful
for what he has and what he’s had, than
what he’s lost. He said he wants people
to know that, while life can be harsh, life
can also be better.
“There are a lot of people who turn
to thoughts of suicide, alcohol or other
selves up from everybody,” Lokowich
said. “My advice is to celebrate the things
worth celebrating and sometimes that’s
the person that’s gone.”