Cory Dean Sterling
White cross located just off the roadside on 2300 block of Aurora Highway (State Road 402) near Nannie Neal Road in Hardin Kentucky. GPS: 36.766083, -88.265556
In Memory of Cory Dean Sterling
Dec 21, 1988 – May 4, 2002
As his niece, I never had the privilege to meet Cory. For I was born a year after his death. I am current 14 years old roughly the age he was when he passed. People say I act like him. It just hurts to thank I will never meet a big part of my mothers family. No one ever talks about Cory it just upsets us all. We all just know he is in a better place.
Many many prayers. Thank you for taking the time to make a post, I hope you family continues to heal with time.
I went to school with Cory at South Marshall Middle School, and would’ve graduated with him. I remember getting the phone call from a mutual friend about the wreck and his passing. Prayers everyday for his family!
Cory was my first love. Like real love. He was the most beautiful person inside and out. There hasn’t been a day that passed in the last 19 years that I haven’t thought about him. His aunt lives right beside me growing up. His cousins were my little brother’s best friends. That’s how we met. He was my person. The day he passed I saw him as we left school and he was talking to me about how excited he was for his mom’s wedding that weekend. We were on our way home from Nashville that weekend from my aunts when my dad called me to tell me that his aunt Tiny had stopped by to tell me. That was the longest ride home of my life and the first time I ever cried over someone passing. The next few weeks just felt like a nightmare. Time crept by. All I could do was cry. Not just for me, but for the world. He wanted to be a special education teacher and often volunteered in that classroom in our school. He was truly an angel on earth and this world didn’t deserve him. I’m grown and married with 3 kids of my own now, my son is close to his age. He has the brightest blue eyes that neither his father or I have and I can’t help but think it’s a piece of Cory always with me, reminding me he is still around watching over me. My kids know about him, my husband knows that was the boy I would have married had he not been stolen. I just knew. I still know. Whenever we go to Lamberts I stop and visit him a while and put some flowers at his grave. I just want him to know wherever he is I still love him and always will. His grandma said he visited her once. Told her a bunch of things. His aunt called me and told me that he sent me a message “tell Haley it will be okay.” She didn’t even know who I was, but his aunt did. This was shortly after, but held that and his one photo I have close to my heart ever since.