| Location | Seaham, Co Durham |
| Age | 28 years |
| Cause of Death | Misadventure |
| Date of Birth | 05/07/1977 |
| Date of Death | 07/06/2006 |
| Visitors | 2,207 since 12/12/2008 |
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Grant was a caring, loving brother untill he became addicted to heroin at the age of 23. This led to his death at the age of 28.
To his friends, Grant was known as Granty Boy, the comedian and always life and soul of the party!
Grant battled with herion addiction for 7 years, he was clean for months and then relapsed year after year untill the addiction took his life. He was a decent lad who made bad choices.
He was always trying to play the protective older brother and he always looked out for me. He now has 2 new little nieces Avah and Isla and a Nephew called Noel Grant. It is sad to think that they will never meet their Uncle Grant but I know he will be looking down on them from heaven and looking out for them!!
The good memories of my brother will last forever xxxxx
You're still here in my heart and mind, still making me laugh cause your stories live on. I promise you that I will make you proud and I will always hold you in my heart. You will forever be in our lives, you will forever be a brother, a son, an uncle and a friend.
Shocked
My name is Dean Bolton and Im from Liverpool. I used to be friends with Grant about 20 years ago, we met in Alcudia, Spain and used to visit each other from then on during six week holidays from school etc and became great friends. At some point, somehow, we lost touch.
I have often searched facebook for Grant, Michael, Cavin and Claire to no avail and have just stumbled upon this tribute page.
I was deeply shocked when I seen the photo of Grant as straight away I realised it was the Grant I knew all them years ago.
My heart goes out to the McNicholas family.
Please feel free to contact me. My email address is deanbolton@rocketmail.com
I wish Heaven had a phone so I could hear your voice again.
I thought of you today, but that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday, everyday and I think of you in silence, I often speak your name. All I have are memories and a picture in a frame. Your memory is a keepsake, from which I'll never forget God has you in his arms, I have you in my heart forever.
love and miss you.xx
The Broken Chain
We little knew that morning that God was going to all your name,
In life we loved you dearly, in death we do the same.
It broke our hearts to lose you, you did not go alone,
For part of us went with you, the day God called you home.
You left us peaceful memories, your love is still our guide,
And though we cannot see you, you are always at our side.
Our family chain is broken, and nothing seems the same,
But as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again.
Light a candle for those we mourn.
Into a new life they will be born.
Do not look for them at the gravesite.
They are somewhere else radiating their beautiful light.
They have gone to a new world where there is no darkness, no pain.
Their light and essence will always remain.
Light a candle for those who have left this mortal place.
They are free to travel through time and space.
When we think of them, they are near.
When we sit in a beautiful garden. Their voices we hear.
When we listen to a divine symphony,
We close our eyes, their faces we see.
Light a candle for they have not really gone.
With each flickering flame, in your hearts they will always belong.
Soar through the air
let your spirit fly free,
and with the catch of an angel
this is where you want to be.
You are lifted up with grace
and taken high above,
you are showered with peace and protection
but most of all showered with love.
For now you have no anger
no tears, fear or pain,
these feelings you held are released
and now happiness is all you will gain.
So take their hands of freedom
your new life is not to fear,
and remember we'll never forget you
as your love will always be near
From day one, without knowing it, I loved you with all my heart.
As I grew older I looked up to you, Michael and Cavan.
Yes, we fought many of times but you supported,
and encouraged me in everything I did.
You were my friend and my hero.
I miss the sound of your music and singing in my room,
I miss you climbing through the window when you were late.
I miss your comfort and the way you made me feel safe.
I miss our nonsense arguments and all our bickering over little things.
I like to remember our times together good times and the bad.
I regret the times I yelled at you, when you were upset and needed help. If you were here now I would be a better sister and do my best.
I miss your smile and your infectious laugh,
I wish I could go back and tell you how I felt, tell you that I really loved you no matter what I said.
I will always love you no matter how long it’s been,
fron the day your life came to an end, ours will never be the same.
You will be in our hearts until the day we are gone and then we will be with you and our lives will go on.
The Next Place
By Warren Hanson
The next place that I go
Will be as peaceful and familiar
As a sleepy summer Sunday
And a sweet, untroubled mind.
And yet . . .
It won't be anything like any place I've ever been. . .
Or seen. . . or even dreamed of
In the place I leave behind.
I won't know where I'm going,
And I won't know where I've been
As I tumble through the always
And look back toward the when.
I'll glide beyond the rainbows.
I'll drift above the sky.
I'll fly into the wonder, without ever wondering why.
I won't remember getting there.
Somehow I'll just arrive.
But I'll know that I belong there
And will feel much more alive
Than I have ever felt before.
I will be absolutely free of the things that I held onto
That were holding onto me.
The next place that I go
Will be so quiet and so still
That the whispered song of sweet belonging will rise up to fill
The listening sky with joyful silence,
And with unheard harmonies
Of music made by no one playing,
Like a hush upon breeze.
There will be no room for darkness in that place of living light,
Where an ever-dawning morning pushes back the dying night.
The very air will fill with brilliance, as the brightly shining sun
And the moon and half a million stars are married into one.
The next place that I go Won't really be a place at all.
There won't be any seasons --
Winter, summer, spring or fall --
Nor a Monday, Nor a Friday,
Nor December, Nor July.
And the seconds will be standing still. . .
While hours hurry by.
I will not be a boy or girl,
A woman or man.
I'll simply be just, simply, me.
No worse or better than.
My skin will not be dark or light.
I won't be fat or tall.
The body I once lived in
Won't be part of me at all.
I will finally be perfect.
I will be without a flaw.
I will never make one more mistake,
Or break the smallest law.
And the me that was impatient,
Or was angry, or unkind,
Will simply be a memory.
The me I left behind.
I will travel empty-handed.
There is not a single thing
I have collected in my life
That I would ever want to bring Except. . .
The love of those who loved me,
And the warmth of those who cared.
The happiness and memories
And magic that we shared.
Though I will know the joy of solitude. . .
I'll never be alone. I'll be embraced
By all the family and friends I've ever known.
Although I might not see their faces,
All our hearts will beat as one,
And the circle of our spirits
Will shine brighter than the sun.
I will cherish all the friendship I was fortunate to find,
All love and all the laughter in the place I leave behind.
All these good things will go with me.
They will make my spirit glow.
And that light will shine forever In the next place that I go.
Thinking of you
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