Steve Haworth

Steven Arthur Haworth Junior
Born: August 3, 1988
Died: April 11, 2007

There are a lot of questions and a lot of rumors floating around. I hope this gives you the answers you need and puts a stop to the rumors. Please understand that what you are about to read might be hard to hear. You do not have to read this if you are not ready. It will be here for you when you are.

Steven had been working at Pizza Hut as a delivery boy. While on a run to deliver pizza’s he was heading down 16th St at about Glendrosa when a truck abruptly slowed down to turn right. Steven was speeding and changed lanes quickly and lost control of his car. When he over corrected his car rolled a few times and went into a pole. No, he was not wearing his seatbelt. He immediately was unconscious and was actually pronounced dead at the scene, even though police are not supposed to do that. No one else was injured or in the vehicle.

When the paramedics arrived they had to tear apart the car to pull Steven from it. An officer found his cell phone and called Steve to notify us that Steven was going to the hospital and he was breathing.

When we arrived at the hospital an officer told us that he didn’t make it. Obviously, we were devastated. The officer wasn’t sure if it was our son since he didn’t have his wallet. We told him about the Trilobite brand on his chest as an identifying mark. The officer went back to check to see if the brand was on him. He came back to notify us that his heart started beating again and the doctors were working on him full force. They said they had never seen anything like that. He had been without a pulse for 5 minutes.

Friends and family came down waiting with us to hear what was happening. A doctor came into visit us and explained that he was stabilized for the moment and that they were doing a mobile X-ray on him. He explained that they had to wait till he was stabilized more to do a cat scan to determine where the bleeding was coming from so they could stop it, as that was the major issue at the moment. After the X-ray they let us into the room to visit Steven while we waited on the results. I will not speak about his condition. I will say, however, there was a light in his eyes and Junior was holding my hand. We told him we loved him and that he was strong. We sat with him talking about all of the love he had waiting for him outside and promised we would be there when he woke up. We gave him all of the encouraging words we could think of. We had to leave when another trauma patient was being brought in.

All of us waited, very impatiently, outside for results. We knew he was going to make it even though he had a long road of recovery ahead of him. Finally, after what seems like hours of waiting, the doctor came out and asked to speak to us privately. He informed us that Steven had fractured multiple vertebrae’s in his neck, there was severe hemorrhaging, his blood pressure was dropping and his pulse was slowing downing. They couldn’t stop the bleeding enough to move him to do the cat scan he needed to find out where it was coming from. The doctor was trying his best to politely explain that Steven wasn’t going to make it. Since his brain hadn’t had oxygen for so long even if they could pull him back they couldn’t guarantee the state of his life. We asked if there was anyway that they could stabilize him enough to get cat scan and figure out what was wrong. They said there wasn’t at this time but if they wanted us to keep working on him they would. We told them to keep working on him and we went back to sit with him.

When we saw Steven his eyes were cold and he no longer held my hand. The nurses said that he had been heavily sedated and that his blood pressure was still dropping. We realized we had to let him go. At this point we were only holding on for selfish reasons. We gave the nurses the go ahead and sat there with him. We told him we loved him and to just relax. We weren’t sure if he could hear us but incase he could we talked to him till the end. He moved very peacefully on to the next world with no pain. Steve was the first person to hold his son coming into this world and we were the last to hold him as heft us.

Steven Jr. was a charming, intelligent, hopeless romantic. He was also stubborn, persistent and irresponsible… but what 18 year old isn’t? He was our boy and we loved him. He had come so far with his struggles life had presented him. With the help of his Steve and CooKie, uncle, aunt and grandpa he was growing into what a man should be. We are all proud of you, Steven, thank you for being apart of our lives.

Steven Jr. had only one modification thus far. He had his father’s Trilobite symbol branded on the right side of his chest, which he was very proud of. Tonight, Steve and I branded the logo on each other in honor of our son. CooKie also shaved her head in honore of our boy, which you will see pics of below

We would love to have you attend the Memorial Service for Junior. We will have an area set up in the front of the podium with pictures and other memorable items. We will also have a place for you all to set any letters written to him that you would like to share. We will add them to a book that we will keep with him until we determine what to do with his ashes. The book will be buried with him if that is the direction we choose however, we haven’t gotten that far in the process yet. We would love to have you all attend, and celebrate the life of Steven A. Haworth Jr.

The Memorial Services will be held for
Steven Arthur Haworth Junior
on Saturday the 21st Day of April in 2007 at 1:30 pm
Lincoln Heights Christian Church
2121 East Lincoln Drive Phoenix, Arizona 85016

We will be doing a Party for Steve on May 11th at The Sets in Tempe. Kim from 13th Floor Entertainment and The Sets are helping us set it up. ALL of the profits will be donated to an organization that councils abused children. Please keep up on information on our website:

www.azhornshalos.com

We thank everyone for the kind words and support. We are still very much in mourning and Steve will not be accepting any appointments for the time being. We thank you for the understanding. The phone will be shut off for a while. If you need to contact us please do so via email.

Sincerely,

Steve and CooKie