Danny

This month has indeed been full of happiness and sadness all within a couple of weeks. On March 12th, my younger brother Daniel Raymond Monsour passed away due to an accident at work. It still seems unreal. He was 26 years old and a welder, iron worker. He was working on a new hotel at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah on scaffolding 4 stories high connecting steel beams when it seems he somehow lost his balance and fell suffering severe head trauma. They life flighted him to the UofU but pronounced him dead once he arrived there. He leaves behind a wife (Kami) and 3 small children, Nicky 10, Karan 3 and Johnny 1. It all still kind of feels like a bad dream that we are going to wake up from. That is how it feels to me, I can imagine how it must feel to Kami. She has been very strong thru all of this. I hope she can remain that way, for her and the kids. Danny and I were not raised together. We have been a little closer the last few years since he as lived in Tooele. He is the son from my Dad's second Marriage to Karan. They adopted him when he was almost 2 years old in Riverside California. My Dads job took them all over the world from Germany to Carolina to New York I didn't get to spend much time with him while he was growing up, just a visit here or there. My biggest memory of him is that he was very, very smart and loved to watch army movies on the history channel and play GI Joe. He was a very good and quiet kid. They adopted Danny because Karan had severe Type 1 diabetes and couldn't bare children of her own. He was her greatest love. Because of her diabetes she (Karan) passed away when she was only 36 and Danny was only 8. Poor kid had a rough life from beginning to end. After Karan died, my dad wasn't much for raising kids on his own, so he (Danny) was passed from my aunt Lanie to his aunt Karm then to his Grandpa and Grandma Garcia thru his teen years, then eventually he tried things on his own. He made some bad choices and has always had terrible luck that he made on his own sometimes, but I believe he had finally found his happiness with his wife and kids and they were making a life when this happened. I hope he is happy and at peace now with his Mom and Grandmas that passed on before him, he sure deserves a happier afterlife then he had a life here on earth. Please keep his family in your prayers as we all will do.