THIRTY FOUR & FOUR

Darling, it has been yet another year. I think of you everyday, yearning for your beautiful face; I have cried so much, some days I can't even find a tear. We keep searching, seeking, praying, for finding another trace.

I keep hoping you will knock upon my door; Two little girls also sit and innocently wait. Every night I fold my hands, and kneel upon the floor There are those who know, but selfishly sit back and hesitate.

Sweetie, to everything God says there is a season, A time to laugh, a time to cry...still we wonder why? As your Mother there will never be any good reason That you were taken away, and needlessly had to die.

Days, weeks, months, you have been missing, years now are four. April, so many missing, you know that you are not alone. My wish, as tomorrow your birthday, you would be thirty four; Is that God would let you, one last time come to this place; that you and I know as your rightful home.

I wish you a Heavenly Birthday, my sweet love, wherever it is that you might be, This gift we send on the wings of a dove A bundle of hugs from the girls and me....

Happy Birthday my beautiful baby girl!! You will always be here in our memories and heart. That truth lies in my hand; your first little cut curl... Another masterpiece from the very start.

Feb. 19,2008

February 19 1974 is April Pitzers Birthday.

From Aprils mother Gloria Denton, we would like to help honor April. Also from Mrs. Denton she leaves us a special message to share with all.

"Today is another year without answers. But is has not been without hope. I want to say thank you to all of those who have been on this journey from the beginning. A journey no Mother should ever walk, especially alone.
 

Without all of you wonderful God sent friends and strangers...without your prayers, words of comfort, motivation, and support I could not be where I am today. Above all things without The Lord by my side, giving me strength, and his angels lighting my pathway with hope Believe me when I say “without God and Friends” I would not have been able to cope.

Someday, some where, some place and time, I will be with this beautiful child of mine.
I want to express my gratitude to those who have reached in their hearts and pockets to provide the money needed to cover every search. Thank you to all, who came forth and walked the ditches, climbed the Mojave Mountains. To those who have risked their lives going down into those blackened mineshafts, to bring my daughter home. Words are insufficient to express how much I have been moved and become an even better person because of all of you.
 

Soon we will be once again, gathered in that desolate place. We will search and sift through the many buckets of sand. To find my daughter, whose soul has moved on to the Promise Land".
Newberry Springs, CA – April Pitzer vanished on June 28, 2004 and despite multiple searchers, public awareness campaigns, national coverage and pleas to the Newberry community; she remains missing. It has been a long road paved with many tears, said Gloria Denton, Pitzer’s, mother; she has two little girls and a family who loves and misses her deeply, she added. At times it can be frustrating for families to endure such a length of time with no resolution; we will continue to support Aprils loved ones and seek new efforts in the search for her and or new information, said CUE’s founder, Monica Caison.

April was last seen in the vicinity of the 30000 block of Caspian Way in Newberry Springs, CA. She indicated she was going to travel to Arkansas to see her mother but never arrived. As of November of 2006, April's case was updated from a missing person case to a missing/homicide case, more than a year ago. 
 

In a recent search for April, Gloria gives this touching account. "I had a little 9 year old boy named Isaiah last fall ask God this in our prayer before the search. "Father God, I ask that if April is alive that she will be found this week-end. And Lord...if April is dead, I just ask that you  would......umm,umm, just raise her from the dead and bring her home to Gloria and her girls.". One of the other children blurted out, "ARE YOU CRAZY!!! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" Isaiah calmly replied "Well, JESUS DID, and CAN".

The Bible gives a account of Lazarus in John 11: 37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"

38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

39 "Take away the stone," he said.
      "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days."

 40 Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"

 41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me."

 43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
      Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."

 

 

 April will always be near because she is in the hearts of those who love her. Her spirit endures for it resides within her daughters and they will keep it alive forever. Gloria Denton