Phillip Silverman
Phillip
Michael Silverman September 6, 1988- April 13, 2007
One month
before high school graduation the police brief read: On Friday, April
13, 2007 an 18-year-old high school student from Marietta was killed
when the sports utility vehicle he was riding in overturned, authorities
said. Phillip Silverman was a backseat passenger in an Isuzu Trooper
that was headed south on I-75 in Turner County. The driver drifted off
to sleep, causing the SUV to veer off the edge of the highway. The
driver overcorrected and the SUV rolled over several times. Silverman,
who was wearing his seat belt, died at the scene of head injuries.
In part,
Phillip’s obituary read: Phillip left behind his parents, sister,
grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and loving dogs, was
president of Spanish club, an AP Scholar with distinction, a national
merit finalist and played viola in the Walton High School philharmonic
orchestra. He had also been accepted to Georgia Tech as an Applied
Physics major.
What neither
of the publications told you was how warm hearted and funny he was or
that Phillip was the sort of guy that would literally give you the shirt
off his back. If you needed him, you only needed to ask. Sometimes you
didn’t even have to ask. Phillip would just know and be there. It
didn’t tell you how much he loved life, family, friends and learning
something new every day. It didn’t tell you as his friends would, that
the world was Phillip’s playground. It didn’t tell you that when
Phillip walked into a room everyone smiled. Nor did these articles
mention that Phillip had that extra something. I call it a light from
within, others call it an old soul but either way Phillip had it. He is
so loved and so missed by so many every single day.
These
articles certainly don’t tell you how sad his sister Laura is that they
can’t just hang out and play guitar together. Music was one of many
shared passions between Phillip and Laura. She misses that they won’t
grow old together and most of all Laura misses that Phillip “got her”
better then anyone else.
If you are
reading this please understand that nowhere in print did it say that
living without our beloved Phillip every day causes a pain that will
never go away. Or that a huge part of our past, present and future has
been taken away from us in the blink of an eye. The pain and craving
for our son/brother is our new normal and we’re told we’ll get used it.
We know Phillip would not want us to live in a cloud of constant sadness
so we will try our best to look at life and living as the playground
that Phillip so enjoyed. We do smile, although most often still through
our tears.
We will
never again laugh at the superstitions associated with Friday the 13th.
So we say to
our dear sweet loving Phillip, we miss and love you more and more every
day. We miss all the things you’ll never get to do. We miss the great
husband and father you would have been. We miss how you enriched our
lives every day just by being you. We miss your bear hugs and your
smile.
Till we meet
again, and I know we will........... we will do our best to love, laugh,
learn and always make time to play.
We love you
the whole world and then some and then some more. Lovingly mom, dad and
Laura
Phillip
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