Image courtesy: This picture was posted on Facebook by @Tom Parks
There is perhaps no tragedy more heartrending than a parent losing a child. When death claimed his 24-year-old daughter, this grieving father made what must have been a difficult decision - to not gloss over the circumstances that led to his daughter dying of a drug overdose in a restaurant bathroom.
In a painfully honest obituary that first appeared in Tributes.com, Tom Parks outlined the details of how his daughter Molly Alice lost her fight against heroin addiction on April 16. "She tried to fight addiction in her own way," wrote her father Tom Parks on Facebook, adding however that his daughter's "fight came to an end in a bathroom of a restaurant with a needle of heroin."
He also pleaded with others in similar situations to reach out. "If you have a friend or a relative who is fighting the fight against addiction please do everything you can to be supportive," he wrote on Facebook.
Read his soul-stirring obit, circulated several times on social media, below:
OLD ORCHARD BEACH - Molly Alice Parks, age 24, who most currently resided in Manchester, NH, passed away in Manchester on April 16, 2015 as the result of a heroin overdose.
She was born in York, Maine on March 13, 1991, a daughter of Tom and Patti (Michaud) Parks.
Molly graduated from Old Orchard Beach High School in 2009 and attended one year at SMCC until her addiction took over. Most recently, she was employed as a delivery driver for Portland Pie Co. in Manchester, NH. She enjoyed theater, fashion, reading - especially Harry Potter, and will always be remembered for fearless personality and her trademark red lipstick. Along Molly's journey through life, she made a lot of bad decisions including experimenting with drugs. She fought her addiction to heroin for at least five years and had experienced a near fatal overdose before. Molly's family truly loved her and tried to be as supportive as possible as she struggled with the heroin epidemic that has been so destructive to individuals and families in her age bracket.
She is survived by her parents- Tom Parks and his wife Pat Noble of Saco and Patti Michaud Parks of Berlin, NH; sister- Kasey Parks of OOB; step siblings- Dustin and Delayna Denicourt of Biddeford; maternal grandparents- Rita and Raymond Michaud of Berlin, NH; paternal grandmother- Ruth Parks of OOB; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, and a niece.
If you have any loved one's who are fighting addiction, Molly's family asks that you do everything possible to be supportive, and guide them to rehabilitation before it is too late.
Visitation will be held on Wednesday, April 22, from 4-8 PM at the Old Orchard Beach Funeral Home, 36 Portland Ave., Old Orchard Beach, ME 04064
In a painfully honest obituary that first appeared in Tributes.com, Tom Parks outlined the details of how his daughter Molly Alice lost her fight against heroin addiction on April 16. "She tried to fight addiction in her own way," wrote her father Tom Parks on Facebook, adding however that his daughter's "fight came to an end in a bathroom of a restaurant with a needle of heroin."
He also pleaded with others in similar situations to reach out. "If you have a friend or a relative who is fighting the fight against addiction please do everything you can to be supportive," he wrote on Facebook.
Read his soul-stirring obit, circulated several times on social media, below:
OLD ORCHARD BEACH - Molly Alice Parks, age 24, who most currently resided in Manchester, NH, passed away in Manchester on April 16, 2015 as the result of a heroin overdose.
She was born in York, Maine on March 13, 1991, a daughter of Tom and Patti (Michaud) Parks.
Molly graduated from Old Orchard Beach High School in 2009 and attended one year at SMCC until her addiction took over. Most recently, she was employed as a delivery driver for Portland Pie Co. in Manchester, NH. She enjoyed theater, fashion, reading - especially Harry Potter, and will always be remembered for fearless personality and her trademark red lipstick. Along Molly's journey through life, she made a lot of bad decisions including experimenting with drugs. She fought her addiction to heroin for at least five years and had experienced a near fatal overdose before. Molly's family truly loved her and tried to be as supportive as possible as she struggled with the heroin epidemic that has been so destructive to individuals and families in her age bracket.
She is survived by her parents- Tom Parks and his wife Pat Noble of Saco and Patti Michaud Parks of Berlin, NH; sister- Kasey Parks of OOB; step siblings- Dustin and Delayna Denicourt of Biddeford; maternal grandparents- Rita and Raymond Michaud of Berlin, NH; paternal grandmother- Ruth Parks of OOB; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, and a niece.
If you have any loved one's who are fighting addiction, Molly's family asks that you do everything possible to be supportive, and guide them to rehabilitation before it is too late.
Visitation will be held on Wednesday, April 22, from 4-8 PM at the Old Orchard Beach Funeral Home, 36 Portland Ave., Old Orchard Beach, ME 04064
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