Alex Ritchey Memorial Fund

Thank you all! You are amazing! The Ritchey Family feels your overwhelming flow of love! Though the sting of their loss is still present and will be for a long time to come it has been lessened by what you all have done for them. God bless you all! Alicia

Many of you know that this was tragic loss for our family and many tears have been cried and will continue to flow as we mourn the loss of my sweet nephew, Alex. What makes it harder for the family is having to worry about funeral costs at a time like this. Geo J. Carroll Funeral Home has been very gracious, helpful and deffered many costs already but we would like to lift that burden off of them and raise the money to cover the expenses of laying their sweet little boy to rest. We have all experienced loss at sometime in our life and isn't wonderful how even in a time of such sadness people come together and help their fellow Christian brothers and sisters in need. Please help this family by making a donation today of any amount. Alex's uncle, Chris Ritchey, just told me the sweet story his little girl giving him her piggy bank because she wanted to help too. If we all had the heart of a child what a wonderful World this could be.

Alex Hunter Daniel Ritchey 

Funeral services for Alex Hunter Daniel Ritchey, 5, of Gainesville, are set for 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 18, 2012, at Geo J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home. Pastor Hollis Parsons, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, will officiate.  

Graveside will follow in Nelson Grove Cemetery.  

Danny Ritchey Sr., Denton Sills, Chris Ritchey and Justin Ritchey will serve as pallbearers. 

The family will be at Geo J. Carroll Funeral Home Tuesday evening, July 17, 2012, at 7 p.m. for visitation. 

Alex passed away Saturday, July 14, 2012, at North Texas Medical Center.

 Alex was born May 17, 2007, in Gainesville to Danny and Jonie (Sills) Ritchey.

 We knew Alex a.k.a Spiderman, was very special from the day he was born. His presence was known wherever he was because of his overflowing, abundant personality. He had this ability to make you laugh at pretty much anything he did even when he was The Hulk and he crinkled his nose, put a grimace on his face, flexed his muscles and yelled, “I’m so angry!” You couldn’t help but laugh. He was loved by everyone but especially by his family. Though he is not here on Earth with us we know where he is. He is in Heaven with our loved ones that have gone on before us including his Uncle John that loved him very, very much. Survivors of Alex Hunter Daniel Ritchey include his father and mother, Danny and Jonie (Sills) Ritchey of Gainesville; sisters, Jennifer, Jamie and Brittani Ritchey of Gainesville; brother, Justin Ritchey of Gainesville; Grandparents, Danny Sr. & Roberta Ritchey of Gainesville; Denton Sills formally of Gainesville and Beth Holbert of Gainesville; great-grandmother, Joy Faulkner of Gainesville; uncle and aunt, Chris & Heather Ritchey of Lawton, OK; aunt, Alicia Sills Dunn of Keller; he also had many cousins. 

He was preceded in death by his Uncle John Sills.

 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4