![]() We would go from laughing to crying, and we would do this all day. People probably thought we were crazy because we were mourning. The two women added walking and running to their daily ritual. It was a tough talk, but we had each other, and we grieved together.” Lisa lost her mom and I had just lost my dad. We drank coffee, we talked, we cried, and we shared. In September 2009, Lisa called me out of the blue and said, I just need to come and be with you,” Warren said. “I have two other boys and they of course had to come back to school in Guelph. We chatted, but that was it.”Īfter the death of her daughter, Warren and her family travelled to Nova Scotia. “And then we met again when Isabel was at Lisa’s house. That was the first time we met,” Warren said. ![]() “We sat next to each other at graduation. They both had children who attended Crestwicke Christian Academy. Warren and Brombal had met only twice previously. “Losing her, it is still so hard every day,” Brombal said. There was one person Warren wanted to ask for help, her friend, Lisa Brombal.īrombal’s son Tate was a close friend of Warren’s daughter, Isabel. “As I was sitting there making a new bed in the garden, it was like God said to me, go now and just dropped this idea on me, a new school, Resurrection Christian Academy,” Warren said. The angel garden was in memory of Warren’s 14-year-old daughter Isabel.Ī student at Guelph's Bishop Macdonell Catholic High School, Isabel died tragically in 2009, after a cinder block wall at a nearby park collapsed on her. “I was building an angel garden for my daughter.” It was a completely gorgeous sunny day,” Warren said. I remember that the snow had just melted. With deep faith, a passion for education, and a great love for children, Sue Warren and Lisa Brombal established Resurrection Christian Academy in 2011. It’s been 13 years since two women from Guelph came together to find hope through tragedy.
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