Danielle Marie Lafrance

Danielle was one of 4 children. She was my 2nd, and the one most like me. She was extremely popular with everyone and was a beautiful and vivacious girl from middle school on. She met her soul mate at 16 and they had 5 beautiful children by the time she was 26. They were almost 1, almost2, almost 3, and almost 4, and 9 at the time of her death on February 21st 2020. She doted on her children and her and their dad were together all the time. She knew about drugs and stayed away from them all her life until that last year. Unfortunately, on a night when none of the kids were home, she tried it one last time and it ended her life. She had a funeral with a two-hour line out the door at the wake. She had so many friends and she was such a presence. Matter of fact she was me at that age. She had my name tattooed over her heart at 18 and named her last baby Julien (my name is Julie) instead of using an a like it's normally spelled. Her story is in a book called Not in Vain, Mothers stories of their children's fight with the drug epidemic, by Bobnie Ziemer. She has a site on Forevermissed.com. Her name is Danielle Lafrance. If one person's life is saved by reading her story, I'll know I did right.

She was loud, full of life, beautiful like a model, and had an attitude and knew what she wanted. She loved her kids and family, loved social media, and being with friends. She is going to be remembered by all the pictures and videos I have of her as three of her children were too young to remember her. She was someone special and loved her children more than anything. She was going to be a nurse like her older sister. And her soulmate of 10 years is now like my son and we are working together to get things right for the children.

She loved her children so much.

Everything.