Ethan Bella Nicolette Heinze

“Ethan” Bella Nicolette Heinze

04.07.2004

02.25.2026

With love from your family…

It is not goodbye, it is see you later. You were too good for this world. God must have

needed you more than us. You were and still are a bright rainbow light in our lives. You were

and still are loved more than can be expressed. You had a passion for every part, and every

person in your life. You put everyone in front of yourself, standing back and watching you

grow, you gave us a gift. Your talent for humor, art, music, color, was amazing to all but no

match for how deeply you felt. We are blessed to be your family. Wherever God has you now,

however tight your family in heaven is holding you for us, we will count down the time

we are reunited. Thank you for your lessons and thank you for your love. We hope peace has

found you and we will patiently wait until we get to see you again.

Love, Mama

I still can’t believe I’m writing this instead of telling you, your life was cut too short

and will never be enough to fulfill your family. You and your kindness, stubbornness to change,

changed me. You made me stronger and weaker at the same time, I wish I could have taken all

your pain and insecurities away, at your deepest darkest moments. You were, loved and

appreciated, you brought a light with your smile and laugh that will be missed until I see you

again, you will always be my baby.

Love you, Dad

Ethan,

I’m not sure where you are, maybe with the trees, maybe the stars? All I know is

the ancestors have you. You were always a spitfire, you were you and no one else, it was such

an honor to know you the way I did. It was an honor to teach you, to watch you, to grow up

with you, and most importantly to love you. Thank your for looking up to me and giving me

something to strive for, thank you for the endless art, thank you for the endless conversations

on witchcraft and marvel and oddities, thank you for all the lessons you have taught me and

everyone else, and thank you for all the love you gave. I know you will watch over everyone,

until we meet again in the next world. I Love you forever and always

Love, Rose

I know you’re up in the stars now. You always knew the importance of being kind. You

lived your life so unapologetically. You taught me and so many others what it means to be

yourself without fear. Your voice was unique; your perspective was only ever your own and

you loved in a way only you could. You left a mark on this world in a way that can never be

erased. You will continue to live in my heart from the memories we created the childhood we

shared and the love you have ingrained into my boys. I hope you know how loved you are and

how deeply missed you will always be. I know you’re in the stars watching over us with the

same quiet strength and spirit you carried with you in your life. I know you’ll be waiting for us

but until that day I will hold onto your words, your art and your kindness. I know your love

will stay with my boys. You will always be my brother, and I will forever love you, until we

meet again, I love you more.

-Love Irey

I am writing this with a heavy hand and an even heavier heart. It has been a true honor

growing up with such a Compassionate, Wild, and Enduring sibling in which shows how

fortunate and lucky of a man I am. You brought light and warmth with your smile that can

never be recreated or replaced. I will never forget some of the memories we shared. Like playing

Cowboys and Indians camping with dad and how you worked so hard making the perfect

golden marshmallow for your smores. Or how we would use all the wood on the side of the

house making the gigantic bike ramp, to go speeding off. Looking back, it probably wasn’t that

big and yet it felt like a mountain to us. And who could forget the infamous Black X concerts

we use to perform. You never lost your passion for art and music, in which I cherished so much

in our childhood. You were so compassionate and caring you used to grab all of your stuffed

animals and give them each a hug goodnight and put them all on your bed to cuddle so no one

felt left out. You had a Wildness in you that could never be tamed, and it made you so free.

You taught me how to be strong and how to not care about what other people think. You

where always too good for this world in how deeply you cared. I will always cherish these

memories for it forged me into the man I am today. I’ve never been the best at goodbyes, so I

always say see you later. For I always see you in the stars and the moon. Or hear your voice in

the wind. It is never goodbye but until I see you again.

-Love your brother Hunter

I’m writing to you to tell you I know why you had to leave us, I would be lying if I

told you I had it all figured out though, honestly I am at a loss for words not because I have

nothing to say but because there is so much we never got to say. I cherish the memories that we

shared and created together while you were with us. I remember how you would dance and sing

around to your heart’s content laughing and joyful, it brings me joy to look back on it and to

remember how happy you can be and the love you had for arts and music. It does bring me

comfort to know that you are finally free from the pain and have found the peace you were so

desperately searching for, I just wish to the gods that we could have taken that pain away and

given you that peace you craved, but I know we will see each other in the next life. We wont

be joining you anytime soon so until then make sure to sing and dance with our ancestors, be

joyful and be free, Make sure to save some room on the dance floor for rose and I we cant wait

to dance next to you again, We will see each other again it’s a promise, I love you kid!

Love, Brent

Dear Ethan,

I am so incredibly lucky that I’ve had the chance to have you be a part of my life. A little over

two years ago, we became inseparable, and from then on you became my other half, my

soulmate. Thes past few years have truly been the happiest of my life I loved watching us grow

together learning side by side and experiencing new things as a team. Having you be a part of

my everyday life is something I will forever cherish. No one could ever come close to the impact

you have left on my heart. I hope you always know the depth of my love and adoration for you.

I love you entirely for your kindness, your passions, your brilliant mind, and especially your

goofy handsome self that could make me laugh no matter what kind of day I was having. I

miss your amazing laugh more than I could put into words, the kind of laugh that filled the

room and made everything feel lighter. I would have done anything in my power to make you

happy. You were my happiness; you were my person. I find comfort in hoping you are no longer

in pain, and that you are finally at peace. Oh, what I would give to hear you talk for hours

about marvel, your games, or philosophy, to see your eyes light up when you talked about what

you loved, what I would give to play with your hair while you lay in my lap. I will carry you

with me always, I will never forget you, nor the immeasurable mark you have left on my life.

My love for you is eternal, rest easy bubs. I love you ,forever and always.

Love, Jade

It breaks my heart to think that so much of our relationship is now boiled down to

what ifs, I should haves, and you should haves. I wonder what if I had reached out to you

more, every time something made me think of you and smile in a store. I feel like I should have

taken the time and been more pushy to hear how you really were doing those times I was busy

and missed a text or call from you. I feel like I should have swallowed my own fears and

insecurities that reaching out more may have been an annoyance or inconvenience to you. But

most of all I'll never get over the thoughts of things you should have gotten to experience. You

should have been here when Hunter and I moved home. And you should have gotten the chance

to build a relationship with us in person, without miscommunication through a screen. You

should have met our daughter. And you should have lived past this dark cloud and found the

happiness and fulfillment that you were searching for.

Love, Ashland