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September 12, 1986

Eric Bohn was born to Marlene and Phil Bohn on September 12, 1986. He was the youngest of the family. Had one older loving brother Ryan.

 
October 26, 2003

Eric Passed away on October 26, 2003. He had been in a Car Accident on Saturday night on the way home from being out with friends. He was involved in a two-car accident at State Route 161 and Sawmill Place Boulevard late saturday night. HE was the passenger in a Chevrolet Corvette driven by a Senior at Worthington Kilbourne High School (WKHS) Christine,18. The corvette was eastbound on state route 161, and according to police, went left of center and was hit by a Ford Taurus on Eric side of the Corvette.  Eric Died at 6:30 Sunday October 26, 2003 at Riverside Methodist Hospital.

- This is where my poem starts (skip the School part and picks back up at the Funeral it ends with Cause you see i remember it liek it was yesterday..)

" I Remember the day you left like it was yesterday, You see?
I woke up and was told you had gotten in that crash, 
I thought not Eric? Not bad, right mom? She just looked at me.
I went to church prayed you were alright, cause you see,
I have looked up to since we were little, since you chased me around your house,
to playing at grandmas, to just, watching you play some baseball.
I can remember getting to
Riverside cause that where they had you at. Went to ER,
but you were no where to be found, my dad just wanted to find you.
 The little desk guy said you were on the 4th floor ICU. Right there and then I knew it was worst then I thought. I knew ICU was bad.
We got up there and they wouldn’t let me see you. I was so upset.
i sat in a room and watch family and friends be dead silent praying for you crying just wanted everything to be okay. It seemed like hours as we waited around to hear for the doctors. you see he lost a lot of blood and they couldn’t get him stable to go surgery, so it was a waiting process for him to get stable again. Ryan came out with your dad (Phil) and they said your brain was starting to swell and if it didn’t go down then that’s would be another thing we would lose you on. It was hard for me Eric to watch you go through that. I wonder if you ever felt pain. Because I’d give anything to take that pain you felt that day away from you.
I had finals that next day I couldn’t study I couldn’t get you off my mind. I left that floor,
the hospital that day. I went home worked on a project. And I remember I couldn’t even do that I just wanted to cry, I just wanted you to be okay I asked friends online to pray for you. 
I turn to God to pray for you, my prayed where un-answer. That phone rang it was my mother, in tears all I said was what happen and she said " Eric not.." and I no don’t tell me that please mom don’t but she finished " Eric's not going to make it" I went back to that hospital to fast to be with the family. Finally around
5:30 or 6:00 they let me see you. My dad just kept asking do you want to see him. are you sure? And all I could think about was when grandma died I wouldn’t go in to see her cause I didn’t want to believe it. And to this day I still regret that. So I went in and saw you. And this is what I saw, Saw Kendal sitting in a chair holding your hand crying pray to the lord, Ryan right behind her and then You,  Yea Eric you laying there not looking like you use to when I’d get to see you. They were pumping oxygen in you like no other; you were swollen and had blood still on you. I cried and had to turn away; I walked out and fell into "Uncle" Daves arms I lost it that day, that moment Eric. Before we left that hospital I went and saw you one more time again. Watch you take you last breathe right in right of me. I'll never forget that. At 6:30 your mom called and said you were dead. I just cried and cried. I went to school the next to days failed my finals because I could get you off my mind but that was the least of my worry's. Your Funeral was so hard for me. I remember they closed that casket in front of us and I fell into "uncle" Daves arms once again and he just held me tight and said I'm right here hunny. That day went to long....But the Funeral mass came soon enough....

 
Monday October 27, 2003 (School)
While my aunt and uncle where going through the trauma and shock of Eric's Death, they were still concerned about his many friends at WKHS. The first question Bohn parents asked was, " are you taking care of the kids at WKHS?" Eric principal mr. Stall said " Eric was one of those really nice kids who seem to connect very easily with others and his classmates." Stall also said that Eric was a member of the varsity baseball team and the intermural basketball team at the highschool.
" When we first learned of Eric's death, we activated our Emergency phone chain on Sunday evening to notify staff members," Stall said. "On monday, we activated our crisis plan, which included notifying our entire school population about Eric Death."
 - SNP Article -
 
October 29, 2003

On the 29th at John Quint & Sons Funeral Home the family had his Wake. It was the hardest and second longest day of my life. I remember before we took Friends the family got there and we got to see him one last time before they closed the casket in front of us for the showing. It was so hard to watch it close knowing we never get to see him again. So many people came i can remember the line was in the front by Eric Casket  went all the way to the back out the door around and out the back door it was soo long people stood in line for hours waiting to see my Aunt Marlene, Uncle Phil and Cousin Ryan. There was a pray service around 7:30 and my aunt gave Carnations to the Pall Bearers and it was very nice. Very Hard to watch her do it.

 
Funeral
....Thursday came the day of the church mass the Actually Funeral.  Ryan and Kendal had amazing reading about you and all the memories they both shared with you I just cried. After Mass I remember we drove past the high school where you use to roam those halls and everybody calling you Big E. We where driving and the kids that weren’t at mass where standing outside along Hard rd. there holding hands in silent in memory of you, It was so sad the hardest day of my life. We put you 6 feet under that day I still have White roses from you casket with pictures of you and necklaces and bracelets with you name or initials on it. I cried so hard that day, they played "Dust in the Wind" at the cemetery it was so hard for me. Cause You See I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday."

 
Ryans Eulogy at the Funeral
This is Ryan's Eulogy that he wrote about his brother Eric to read at the Funeral.

“If tears could build a stairway, and thoughts could build a lane, then I would walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.”

Over the past seventeen years of my life I have been blessed with having a brother by the name of Eric “Dick” Bohn,… As I liked to call him. When you lose a brother it is as if you lose half of yourself.

As we grew up Eric was always right there by my side, whether it was in the backyard playing sports, or being a bat boy for my baseball team. He was always right there trying to impress me, and always trying to gain the respect of me and my friends. And by God, he always made me proud.

Eric was not only my brother, but my best friend. As we grew up, Eric and I began to get closer and closer, being able to talk about sports, girls, ..school, and just about everything in between.

          Throughout his life Eric could light up a room without even saying a word.  He left an impression on each one of us, one that will remain forever. I will never forget his complementary head nod, his smug smile, and his classic “aiiight.”  Since the passing of Eric, I have questioned the intention God had in taking Eric from us at such a young and innocent age. Then I realize, he may have only been here seventeen years, but he got more out of seventeen years than most people get in a lifetime.

Eric always had a smile on his face. Nothing ever brought him down; I guess somehow he knew life was too short to sweat the small stuff. Throughout his life all Eric wanted to do is to make his friends, his parents, and his family proud. He wanted to please all, whether it was talking to you about your problems or just sitting next to you showing his support for you. Eric was never one to show his emotions or truly let you know how he felt, because that would make him vulnerable and he would never put himself in that situation.  But as his brother, I know how much each of you truly meant to him. I saw the love he had for his friends and family.

 He was always busy doing something with his friends or his beautiful girlfriend (Kendal).  Each day after school I would briefly see him because he spent so much of his free time with his friends.  Each of you meant the world to him. And I thank each and every one of you for your friendship and love you bestowed upon him.  He knew how much you cared for him. Although he may not have shown it, I could see it in his eyes each time he mentioned your names.

 “Live everyday as if it is your last” is a saying many of us hear and acknowledge, but quickly forget. A lesson that Eric taught us at the age of seventeen, was to live each day to the fullest, ….and I truly believe we can all learn to follow in his footsteps.

 
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