NEW CO-AFFILIATE LEADER! Helping Parents Heal - Coldwater, MI!
Posted
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- Dec
- 1
- 2025
by Elizabeth Boisson
Please join me, Kathy MacMannis, Rosanne Groover Norris, Patti May, and Irene Vouvalides in welcoming Bunnee Harper Smoker, who will be helping Louise Nelson Crist in Coldwater, MI. We are so grateful that she and Jamie will be joining our team.
Louise Crist
My name is Louise and I am the lucky mother of three beautiful girls. I live in Coldwater (which is very close to where Michigan, Indiana and Ohio all merge together) and have worked as an RN at the same local hospital for over 32 years.
Growing up in a close-knit community, I was deeply touched by the coping skills that the parents of several classmates we lost before graduation demonstrated by their examples of faith and love. Those experiences gave me the opportunity to show compassion in my career as a nurse, but more importantly, they prepared me for November 19, 2011; the day that my 19 year “old soul” middle daughter Jillian suddenly went Home in a car accident.
In April 2018, I attended my first HPH worldwide conference (a life-changing experience) and hope to help others become Shining Light Parents. I wrote a book about the journey (7 years in the making and due out in February) and the incredible signs that Jilly sends to assure us that without any doubt, the end is NOT the END. I will be holding online meetings a few times a year to start and am also willing to host a potluck Candle Lighting Ceremony once a year so that we can meet in person. I am looking forward to walking with you on this difficult journey towards Home, where our beloved children wait for us.
Bunnee Smoker
My name is Bunnee Smoker. I am a widow, retired nurse and mother of two wonderful sons. My oldest son Jamie,transitioned by suicide, November 13, 2013, three years after my husband passed from a blood cancer. I don't believe he ever grieved his father and he also went though a nasty divorce. I am blessed to have Louise Crist as a friend and she lead me to HPH. I was also able to go to HPH conference 2024 and plan to attend again in 2026. Attending really changed my outlook on the afterlife and knowing our loved ones don't really leave us. I am looking forward to working along with Louise at our Coldwater HPH group and helping others on their new journey in life.
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