Darren

Darren Harris,my son, 6th out of 7 children was born on August 11,1979. He was born at home in Sacramento. He was a planned at home birth. He has 5 brothers and one sister. The 7 D's. David,Danel,DeShelle,Donald,Darryl,Darren and Dennis. He has 11 nieces and nephews. David and his wife Kori have Rachel and Joshua. Danel and his wife Joanna have Aric and Abigail. DeShelle and her husband Matt have Jackson,Mariah,Jalyn and Shane. Donald and his partner Saundra have Kyle and Wyatt. (Saundra has two daughters Shante and Tameka.) Darryl and his wife Vicky have Cassidy and Andrew,Vicky has a daughter named Rosa. Darren was recently married to Holly and they didn't have any children. Dennis and his wife Karen have no children but love their cats. Darren loved riding motorcycles, driving trucks, loved disc golf, shooting his guns at the range, mosh pitts at some wild concerts, playing card games, dragons and wizards. One thing he is remembered for is his ability to have useless information he liked to share with everyone. (I used to buy him useless information books for his christmas and b-day presents just because he enjoyed reading them.) Darren also loved to read books. Darren is also remembered for his activities with his nieces and nephews. He brought great joy to his nieces and nephews and loved to play with them.(you could say he was just a big kid himself). Darren didn't want to kill spiders in his apt. because he thought they would keep other bugs away. Darren saved everything. Darren still has clothes he wore in high school. Darren was sentimental like that. Darren was a great yoyoer. He always had a yoyo in his pocket. He would always show anyone who would watch his tricks or show them how to do them.

Darren died on June 12, 2008, he was 28 years old, I was 28 when he was born. He died in a motorcycle accident, hitting a truck. Darren was speeding and most likely misjudged the driving of the truck driver and paid for it dearly with his life. Darren died instantly. A good lesson from this could be never underestimate the other driver and always be cautious and drive carefully and defensively.

Darren is missed by everyone. At his memorial there were over 250 people in attendance. Family and friends were everywhere and shared their sorrow in my loss and everyone elses loss. I was sorry for each of their losses of Darren. He touched everyones life. I was proud of Darren for his accomplishments. He had just purchased a house and had become a very responsible member of society. He changed his life for the positive. Darren use to tell me he didn't want to grow up and become responsible, but he did it anyway.