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Shannon Lee McBride was born on September 29, 1980 - The Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and all other angels. She believed in angels and once told her father "The only time your guarding angel will let you down is when it is your time to go to heaven." She was a healthy young athlete and college student and was very active in police and fire memorial societies and charitable events. Shannon bled to death at the age of 22 from complications following a tonsillectomy on July 29, 2003. Since then we've been passing out little gold angel pins in her memory to literally thousands of firefighters and police officers and nurses all over the world. Many of them have contacted us and told us stories about their own guarding angels. Perhaps, if you are a firefighter or a police officer or nurse have an "angel story" to tell - a story where you or someone else survived when you should have probably died, would you share it with us? Just send us the story at chiefjtm@aol.com. Thank you very much. - Copyright, 2006 by J.T. McBride
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Would you help us keep Shannon's memory alive by supporting the 2007 Shannon Lee McBride Motorcycle Run at Lakeland Community College? The proceeds go to her memorial endowment to help young female athletes like her attend Lakeland. The next Shannon Run will be held on July 29, 2007. Participants will get a gold angel pin, 2007 patch and other small gifts. For more information, or to get a patch from previous "runs" in 2004 - 2006, please contact Mary Brown at the Lakeland Community College Foundation Office by calling 440-525-7824 or by emailing her at the following address: MBrown@lakelandcc.edu. - Copyright, 2006 by J.T. McBride
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Shannon loved her Irish heritage a lot, and was a charter member of the Greater Cleveland Police Emerald Society (Irish-American law enforcement association", and also a member of the Greater Cleveland Police Memorial Society. She had been a drummer in the Memorial Society pipe band, and had marched in many funerals, parades, and memorials including the first two National Conference of Law Enforcement Emerald Socieities Memorial March and Service (founded by her father James and Michael Mitchell) in Washington, D.C. Through the Emerald Society in Cleveland, Shannon met a local but nationally acclaimed author named Les Roberts who subsequently came to be a family friend. Just prior to her death and while trying to recover from her surgery, Shannon was reading a Robert's novel entitled "The Irish Sports Pages", which is an extremely interesting Cleveland based mystery featuring our Irish-American community and starring Robert's fictional private investigator - Milan Jacovich. - Copyright 2006 by J.T. McBride
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The top photo shows a tribute to Shannon in her home. The bottom photograph shows her crypt at All Souls cemetery in Chardon, Ohio. Copyright 2006 by J.T. McBride
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Shannon with a bird. @2006 by J.T. McBride
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Shannon in her "new" car. @2006 by J.T. McBride
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