Here is an article I found about leeloo's mom. I don't know if it has been posted yet. The article speaks about a recent message that she wrote to her two daughters. She speaks about wishing her job didn't keep her away so much. It is heartbreaking to think about, but obvious she loved them.
Relatives of Fort Hood Army nurse 'overcome' by slaying
"I just now got a few minutes. ... There's so much to do. So many lives to touch," Juanita Warman wrote in a final message to her two children.
Within days, the Army nurse was one of those fatally wounded in a burst of gunfire at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people and wounded 30.
On Saturday, her mother, Eva Waddle, other family members and friends gathered at the mother's Crafton apartment as Army officials came to officially deliver the terrible news.
Warman, 55, had arrived at Fort Hood just two days before the shooting.
Family friend Danielle Judd said Warman's family was "exhausted and overcome with emotion."
A lieutenant colonel, Warman was the highest ranking soldier to die in the gunfire. She grew up in Sheraden and graduated from Langley High School in 1972.
By the end of the month, the decorated psychiatric nurse was to have left for Iraq, once again to administer to the mental and physical needs of her military colleagues.
"I'm excited to be leaving," Warman wrote in that final message Oct. 29, sent just days before her death.
She added that it was so nice to see her children grown up, even if it was only in photos.
Warman, who received a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000, served previously in Operation Enduring Freedom, family and friends said last night.
She made multiple trips accompanying wounded soldiers on trips from Iraq to Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center in Germany and on to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington.
She was awarded a badge for meritorious service for her efforts in 2005 and 2006, Judd said.
In addition to her two daughters, Tawnya Patillo of Alabama and Melissa Papst of McMurray, and her mother, she leaves her husband, Philip, and four sisters and a brother.
The news of Warman's death came as a shock to those who knew her.
Robert Papst, Juanita's ex-husband, said he had not been in touch with her recently. Papst said Juanita was in the Reserves when they were married but had not been called to active duty.
"We kept a good relationship," he said, adding that he lost contact with her when their daughter, Melissa, became emancipated.
He said he knew that she had relocated to Maryland.
Pennsylvania licensing records show Warman was a registered nurse practitioner in addition to being a registered nurse.
"I just wish my job didn't keep me away from home so much," Warman wrote in that final message to her family. "I will keep checking in, so keep adding new photos."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/rss/s_652140.html
Thats so sad. :(
I just found out this weekend that a guy from my home town (Frederick,OK) had been killed. Nothing ever happens back home, so when something like THIS happens, its such a shock.
oh my, :( that is just heartbreaking
Koko- navy wife-mommy of two- currently baking baby #3
That is very sad.
Will keep Leeloo and the rest of her family in my thoughts.
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on Nov. 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM