This memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Ryan Joseph Cayford, who was born in Florida on Feb 03, 1983 and passed away on Sep 06, 2004 at the age of 21 in a terrible motorcycle accident that also took the lives of his best friend, Matt Teston, and two lovely young women, Andrea Wagner and Rebecca Smith. 
Ryan is the son of Allison and Charlie, the brother of C.J, the stepson of Ray(Skinner), grandson of Gloria, Harry, Evelyn and Ivan, nephew of Beverly, Nancy, Linda, Janet, Terry, Vance and Brenda, and uncle of Riley JoAnna and Evan Joseph.   Our hearts are broken and our family will hold Ryan in our hearts with love forever.  
(Please visit http://matthew-teston.memory-of.com to pay tribute and condolences to Ryan's best friend, Matthew Teston.)


GONE FROM MY SIGHT
by Henry van Dyke
        
     I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck
of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."

Gone! Where?

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
A horizon and just the limit of our sight.