im with sara on this 1...lol poor family members back east...they have no idea...what pain and suffering we had to go though to take care of her, its funny how family members that supposively care about her so much but cant even come down to her funerole, its pretty funny stuff, u can talk stuff when we got a few thousand miles between us but u wont if we r face to face >.>, and to hear the crazy stuff that grandpa did to my mom when she was little....ya i heard about it...those drugs tore our family apart...its kinda hard living without a mother anymore...where r ur guyses phone calls??? to see how we r dealing with this? hm? i was the one who called u guys....ur lucky i even called u....and tothink i caled u guys first for a reason....if i knew u guys would react this way towards us then i woulda never called u...im sure u came to this website to talk crap about this family....well u kno what lol u call us w/e u want cuz like sara said we r a hu family and we cant be broken down, we wont let ur pathetic little attempts to piss us off, do it...and JP.... stop feeding all these ideas to the family members....they r all lies, if u want the real answers then call us we can tell u cuz we experienced it first hand...u didnt so shut ur mouth old man. >.>

Everyone this is sar. U all have NO idea how hard it was to deal with mom. She was a drug addict and you people keep blaming this on us. There was no way that we could of stopped her, PUT CAMERAS in the bathrooms, yeah right. What privacy. You cannot haul someone away and force them into rehab center because that is false inprisionment. Where were you all when all this was hhappening. HUH. What about her funeral, HUH! What family memebers! Hahaha Where were you all moms childhood, she lost her mom at a very young age and she didnt have Any relationship with her father at all. It disappoints me that you people can make assumptions and you haven even come down here to see her. She did not stop for you grandpa, what makes you think she was going to stop for you when she wasnt even going to stop for her own family in bkersfield. You guys hurt my feelings so BAD you have no idea. My mother just died and my husband is in iraq, i have a newborn son to handle, and i cant believe u could call one of the people that has helped me and josh and mom out full time, and told him all kinds of nasty hateful things and now he is raising me and josh single handedly without an of you. Where are your phone calls, you havent even called to see how we are and we are your grandchildren? There is one thing i have to say, Jerry, is one of the most clear headed people and hard working people i have ever known. He has done so much as a provider for this family, and so much more. Me jerry, and josh are one big family so if he is a piece- of crap then we all are. Call us and say it to our faces!

This is a tragety in itself. Laura was a good person whose life was taken at such a time in her life where she must have been seeking out for help that came too late! Words cannot describe the hurt inside myself to know that after 23years plus of her being my step sister I could not be there for her. We all grow up and become so wrapped up in our own world that we tend to forget about those who need us the most. With said this loss of a big sister,friend,mother,new grandmother should be a lesson learned for us all to reflect our lives off of. As said by many, please let her rest in peace. Sincerly Always Stephanie Rae Lemley- Hickle

Goodbye Laura, your laughter will be missed from all that knew your kind gentle heart and soul. I know that your Mother and our Grandmother are there to embrace you. God blesses you love.

Me being Laura brother, I have to say that the following comments have been a little harsh by some of you. We all need to realize that Laura death is tragic enough without having to see some of the comments below. I ask that we all memorialize Laura for what Laura stood for and that is family. Laura was a wonderful mother, wife, sister, daugther, cousin, niece, aunt and friend to us all and would be distruded if she could read some of the following comments. I have to say I was a little shocked to see this news release before her obituarie or her service, but as I watch the 17 news, I have to say each segment is getting better as they talk to goverment officals, local pharmacy and the onlone service which won't reply. They are not bashing my sister and I want to thank 17 news for this. We don't know what happened to Laura at this point and should hold back any negitive comments until the result are out, my sister deserves this from all of us! I have lost my sister and have lost a part of me with her, but I know that Laura would be doing the same as I am doing now and that is, cherish what we had with Laura and let's pull together and stop this type of tragedy from happing again. We all need to contact our goverment officals and stop the access of online drug dealers for our living famlies and kids!!! Leason learned here is that no matter how strong you might think you are, we all have a weakness and weakness comes in many ways, but when one thanks they are safe with precription drugs, we as loved ones need to make sure that we stop precription adbuse to save our loved ones, no matter how hard it is, because when there gone, there gone. God bless Laura my sister.... Love you, big brother Mark.

I am Laura's sister. I am sickened by the way her other family members found it necessary to go to the news media before there was a coroner's report, cause of death or any indication of her being intoxicated at the time of her death. Do you people honor your dead by saying, well... good ole so and so he sure was a crack head? This was your mother who was not addicted to drugs while she raised your ungrateful butts! She cared for you and you were disrespectful to her and here you are disrespecting her again! Jerry you left Laura and were not living with her at the time of her accident. So who abandoned who? Our father and her mother divorced when Laura was 11 years old and our father paid his child support every month, on time. He moved to Wyoming so Laura came out almost every summer as a teen. Laura chose to live with her mother in Bakersfield and to stay there to work, marry and raise her family. She brought her children out and stayed with our parents many times as an adult and we came there and visited sometimes. She loved her family and had a good relationship with her family. I guess in some peoples eyes all non-custodial parents "abandon" their families. We are a good family with good values and upbringing and were not raised to dishonor our parents or siblings. I loved my sister and my parents loved my sister, so please, stop your sickening comments and back stabbing and let her rest in peace! Let our family get through this loss with the good memories of Laura. If you have somthing to say about a family member call them up and say it! Don't go slander the family on the news! Karen and Susie you have not even so much as talked to our dad in thirty years and you did not live in the same state as they did when they got divorced. There are two sides to every story you know. You should be ashamed of yourselves for your lack of information and comments! Stop this now and let Laura's memory be good! God Bless Laura and all her family...

I am Laura's cousin, and I will miss having her surprising us with visits to see her family more than anyone will know. She was a bright star in everyones life she always tried to keep connections with the rest of her distant family even after my aunts passing. It is horrible that this accident happened. I HOPE this will help someone who is having an addiction problem & make them realize how thier families are effected by this. No one wants to see the fear and pain in thier loved ones eyes. I know for a fact that Laura was loved and cared for by her husband, children, brother and others that attempted several times to help my sweet cousin. She was not abandoned by her family in California. I am a nurse and it is heart wrenching that the Medication prescribed or not, took her from us, and she was not strong enough to now it had ahold of her. I hope and pray that Jerry, Sara, Josh & Mark find out why she was given so much, so often, without being monitored or questioned. This should be a great concern for Everyone using the mail order or going to other states for those types of medications because addiction is addiction it takes anyone and everyone down the same path of self distruction, I just wish laura would have realized that sooner. I LOVE YOU Laura!! (and I agree with my aunt, mother and father below)

I cannot believe this

I am Laura's Aunt and I also take issue with her father's comments. Not only did he desert the family but he has a long history of drug abuse himself along with many other issues that do not need to be aired here. No one deserted Laura but her loved ones tried desperately to help her by having an intervention and getting her to agree to go into rehab. Laura had everything to live for a loving husband, two children she adored, and a new grandson. The family is bringing this issue up so that others may learn by her mistake. People need to realize that there is a huge difference between physical addiction and drug addiction. Laura got trapped into drug addiction but did not understand that she had a problem. Online pharmacies need to be held accountable because how did she get so many pills so often? Did she have a valid prescription to get Soma online? Today, electronic health records are available and pharmacuetical companies have been light years ahead with technology due to prescription drug abuse. Why couldn't they see she was getting too much of the drug? We need to hold them accountable for Laura's death and this family will NOT sit and wait but will be aggressively seeking the hard answers. Laura did not need to die!

I j williams and laura,s aunt karen find real exception to what her dad says about abandonment,when john knows he left her at such a young age,but then he always felt it was all about him anyway,we love you and will always miss you baby.