Memories be they good, or bad: Mark Brian Brizell was my father. A troubled man who abused drugs and made wrong choices that sealed his fate forever. I know no positive memories of this man, but from what others have said, he was a good man. I wish things would have been different for him so i could have known that side of him. My mother and father met in high school, they met from other friends who did drugs together. My father, from what i'm told, loved my mom very much he would have done anything for her. After I was born, my grandma thought that because my mom was shooting up it would be best if my dad took custody of me and took me away from my mother. My father didn't like that idea but he always listened to my grandma. My dad won the custody hearing and We began moving to different cities to avoid my mom. Mark was so upset that he had to do this that he began using drugs. As time went on I started to notice my dad was acting weird. I knew, even as little as I was, what was happening. Weird people come in and out of the house all the time, my dad would get violent and throw things. I always loved my father, I will continue to love my father, but all respect was lost one christmas day when he almost ended my life. It was christmas eve and I was very very ill, I had been taking some medicine but it made me very dissy. I was making my bed with some clean sheets that night and watching the sheets go up and down and up and down, made me sick and I threw up all over my fresh clean blankets. My dad came into my room and grabbed me by the hair dragging me out of the room. I was so scared. He dragged me next to the christmas tree and said, "If you move, I will kill you!". So I didn't move, I barely even took a breath. He walked towards his room and came bad out with this very unusual bad he had made. I was an ordinary wood bad with hundreds of needles coming out of it. He walked toward me with it and held it over my face like he was going to swing, I started crying so hard and I squeezed my eyes shut. Then he stopped, I looked up at him and he fell to his knees and started crying uncontrollably. I didn't know what to do so I got up and just hugged him. He held me tight and cried. I don't remember what happened after that but I know things got worse. I love my father and I don't want him to be remembered as a bad man. That wasn't who he was it was the drugs and the sadness that consumed his life and eventually ended it. I was devastated to find out my father had killed himself, but at the same time I felt I was free. If that wouldn't have happened, my father probably would have killed me or my siblings. Things only got better, my mom changed her life around and is know 12 years clean, I got my high school diploma and now I'm attending a college for cosmetology. My dad may not have had the chance to watch me grow up, but that, I believe, is the sacrifice he made to give my family a better life. He was a good man, young and foolish. He deserved better, but he isn't suffering anymore and thats all I can ever be grateful for.
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Brizell, William (Jan 3, 1897 - Dec 1967)
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Brizell, Lazar (Jul 23, 1884 - May 1, 1964)
Brizell, Murray (Jun 17, 1923 - Dec 3, 2004)
Brizell, Rose (Mar 15, 1906 - Dec 1981)
Brizell, Edna (Aug 22, 1886 - Aug 1985)
Brizell, John (Aug 31, 1927 - Apr 1, 2011)
Brizell, Annie (Mar 7, 1880 - Feb 1970)
Brizell, Ernest (Jul 18, 1884 - Aug 1973)
Brizell, Ernest (Apr 22, 1912 - Dec 6, 1996)
Brizell, Ronald (Oct 19, 1948 - Nov 7, 2001)
Brizell, James (Jan 14, 1918 - May 1984)
Brizell, Grace (Jan 31, 1918 - May 20, 2007)
Brizell, Emma (Jan 17, 1875 - Aug 15, 1966)
Brizell, Mark (May 6, 1976 - Oct 5, 2002)
Brizell, Susan (c. Jan 7, 1953 - Sep 25, 2015)
Brizell, Paul
Brizell, Kendall (Born c. Nov 9, 1995)
Brizell, Ashley (Born Jun 23, 2000)
Brizell, Eric (Born Jan 18, 2002)
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