Draw Me

One year

Sun, 05 Jun 2005 06:29:16 GMT

APRIL 11, 1986 to JUNE 5, 2004

St. Patrick's Cemetary, Maple Grove

Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:09:13 GMT

Jolene Mary Czeswik
4/11/86 ~ 6/5/04
(link)

We are all here together
With tears in our eyes,
To remember a great friend,
And say our final good-byes.
Jolene had a way, to light up a room
With a smile on her face,
And laughter in her voice,
I know she didn't want to leave us,
But there was no other choice.
Angels came and got her
And led her to the light,
To take her "Home" forever
On that rainy Saturday night.
The Angels must have whispered,
"Come with us Jolene,
Your mission here is done,
We will take you up to Heaven
To be with our Father and Son."
You left your mark on many,
With your happy smiling face
We are greatful that we knew you,
Though only for a little while.
You taught us all so many things,
These lessons we will keep within.
You were a teacher in so many ways,
Your message was loud and clear,
'Take each day we have together,
No matter at school, work, or play,
Be GREATFUL that we have eachother,
And make the most of everyday.'
It's hard to say good-bye
To a friend like you
To know that we must part,
Tears a hole in my heart.
For you will ALWAYS be remembered,
You WILL live on in everyones heart...

News Articles

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:11:41 GMT

Osseo-Maple Grove Press: "Crash kills teen day before graduation"
by Alicia Miller
June 12, 2004

An 18-year-old Maple Grove resident died Saturday, June 5, as a result of a car crash.

Jolene Czeswik of Maple Grove was traveling eastbound on County Rd. 30 near the intersection at Hwy. 169 around 7:20 p.m. She was driving in a 1996 Eagle Talon with her cousin Kristy Williams, 25, also of Maple Grove.

The second vehicle involved in the crash, a 2002 GMC Envoy, driven by Kenneth Lebowski, 41, of Wayzata, was traveling southbound on Hwy. 169.

Czeswik was stopped at the intersection of County Rd. 30 and Hwy. 169. A State Patrol report said the stoplights were off at the intersection due to a power outage and that Czeswik looked both ways and thought all was clear and proceeded into the intersection. The two cars collided.

Czeswik was transported to North Memorial Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 9:15 p.m. Her passenger, Williams, was also transported to a hospital with a broken shoulder and concussion. The driver of the other vehicle, Lebowski, received minor injuries, but was not taken to the hospital. All three people involved in the crash were wearing seat belts.

Czeswik was supposed to have graduated the next day, Sunday, June 6, with the rest of the class of 2004 from Maple Grove High School.

Principal Conn McCartan said the school found out Sunday morning about Jolene's death. "Kids were sad about the graduation ceremony," he said.

McCartan added that the family said "Jolene was proud of this class and would have wanted people not to be bummed out and to enjoy their graduation ceremony." He told the seniors this at the graduation ceremony.

Czeswik's Foundations class bought a bouquet of flowers and set it on the chair she would have sat on at the Target Center, site of the commencement ceremony.

"The family picked up a display made for her by kids at the school Monday," McCartan said.

Some students are helping to plan music for her funeral, Thursday, June 10, 2004, at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, 7180 Hemlock Lane in Maple Grove.

"She was a neat kid. A writer, in cheerleading, and wrote poetry," McCartan said.

Star Tribune: "Maple Grove teen dies in crash on eve of graduation"
by Jim Adams
June 8, 2004

As Char Williams slid an iron across her niece's crimson graduation gown Saturday evening, her telephone rang and she learned that the girl she had raised since childhood had been critically injured in a collision in Brooklyn Park.

About two hours later, on the night before she was to graduate from Maple Grove High School, Jolene Czeswik, 18, died from her injuries. A bouquet of yellow, blue and purple flowers rested on her chair at commencement Sunday, placed there by her classmates.

On Monday in her Maple Grove home, Williams tearfully embraced a friend as she watched a TV broadcast of Jolene's classmates in red caps and gowns.

"I would give my life to see her for one more minute," Williams said. "I loved her like my next breath."

It was raining when Czeswik drove up to Hwy. 169 about 7:20 p.m. Saturday. A power failure had darkened the traffic light at 93rd Avenue N. in Brooklyn Park. She looked, pulled onto the highway and was hit by a southbound vehicle, the State Patrol said.

Czeswik, raised since age 3 by her aunt and uncle, planned to go to college to become a nurse or study advertising or journalism, Williams said. She penned poetry, wrote for her high school paper and was a cheerleader for one year. She also volunteered to teach immigrants English, tutor elementary students and help residents at a New Brighton nursing home, Williams added.

"She was only 18 years old, but, man, did she touch a lot of lives," said her uncle, Kim Williams. "She didn't have a selfish bone in her body."

Czeswik was giving the Williams' daughter, Kristi, 25, a ride to a friend's party that night, Kim Williams said. The two cousins and the other driver, a Wayzata man who suffered minor injuries, all wore seat belts. No sign of alcohol or drugs was apparent, said patrol Sgt. Dan Beasley.

Kristi Williams was hospitalized with a concussion and broken shoulder bone but was in stable condition Monday, said her father. The two cousins were like sisters, and Kristi Williams planned to drive Czeswik to Chicago for a graduation present, Char Williams said. They had an ongoing prank of who could scare the other more, sometimes by jumping out of a closet or another hiding place at night, she said.

When Czeswik's death was announced by Principal Conn McCartan during graduation ceremonies Sunday at the Target Center, many eyes turned to her boyfriend, Joe Ralph, who had taken her to the senior prom.

"People came up to me and gave me hugs and asked if they could do anything," said Ralph, who added that he initially wanted to skip the ceremony.

"She was my best friend," said Ralph, 19, standing with parents and classmates around a table of her pictures and poetry in the Williams' dining room.

He said her favorite movie was "Dumb and Dumber," pickles were her favorite food, and Wendy's chicken nuggets, French fries and Dr Pepper her favorite meal. Though small in stature, Jolene was a very determined person whose spontaneous humor was captivating, he said.

Czeswik told Ralph that his surviving lymphoma cancer in 2001 "makes me special, that she respected me for walking through that."

She left a journal full of poems, said her aunt, including one she wrote last year when her grandmother died. In part, it said:

"God has a funny way of working
But I know now that it is for the best
Before she passed, she told me that
God only takes you when it is your time."

KROC AM News: TC Senior killed day before graduation
by Kim David
June 8, 2004

A Twin Cities teenager was killed in a traffic wreck last Saturday, the day before she was to receive her diploma. 18-year old Jolene Czeswik was driving a car that collided with another vehicle and died 2 hours later. Her death was announced the next night at the Maple Grove High School graduation ceremony...

saturday nights

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 05:15:29 GMT

Hi, I'm kedster, and I'm posting this for anyone who doesn't know yet.

Saturday evening, June 5th, Jolene was involved in a car accident on Highway 169 & 30, where she was struck on the side and killed.

It's a very tragic event.. you can see from her previous posts that she was very excited about high school being over and she was happy to move on with her life - college at St. Cloud State, and the future.

Jolene was a sweet and caring person. Although we weren't as close as we could have been, we saw each other every day at school and shared some fun times.

We'll all miss you Jolene.

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 22:30:36 GMT

Hey everyone i just wanted to let you all know that my new AOL screen name is sweetsistaali04 so if you all wanna talk to me then holla

oh man the wonders of my twisted mind

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:17:55 GMT

well i never thought that iw ould even be up this early on the FIRST day of my summer vaca but in a way i am sooooooo glad that i am and my internet is finally working so therefore i will be on here a WHOLE lot more... Well i just wanted to say that i am so sad that HIGHSCHOOL is over.. haha NOT! i am so fucking pumped that it is through with and i dont have to deal with the fucking drama that is Maple Grove Senior High.. oh he said and she said that you said... um not.. i hate all of that and i hope that i never have to deal with it ever again. Um well i am going to go take ben to the haunted bridge MAYBE and the haunted school house over on Bass Lake Road so ill talk to you all later and i hope everything goes all well with everyone this summer!! PEACH IM OUT!! haha just kidding stay white...
Love jolene

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:01:57 GMT

okay so i really want to switch banks cuz i HATE TCF... but i dont like wells fargo either n e one have n e suggestions?? my mom said Bank of Elk River... but i dont know so let me knoe

well its been awhile

Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:35:22 GMT

It sure has been quite some time since i have written in here... tomorrow is my last day of school i am so damn pumped you guys have no idea i am so sick and tired of this damn place... as i am sure most everyone here is. i am going out to lunch with my mommy tomorrow and then i am going to the casino and i am going to go get wasted at Bens house sounds good to me! haha i hope i win some money... that would be nice cuz it is much needed right now. Well i just wanted to say hi and tell all of you that i am still alive if n e one was wondering or cared..

EXCITING

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:48:53 GMT

You wanna know what is sooo exciting...??Planning a trip! Me and my best friend are planning a trip to go to Los Angeles in the middle of july it should be such a blast just the two of us!! Oh man LA here i come i cant wait i have always wanted to go to LA and one day i have always wanted to live there i think that would be such a blast to live in LA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just dont want to see homeless people EW! I hate seeing that it sucks

Okay so then Buddha, Andrea's so called BOYFRIEND.. says that she cant go without him well ya know what i said.... thats BuLlShIt!!! absolute bullshit thats all i have to say about that but yea so i had to put all of that on hera!! See ya all later

THIS WIERD TEST....

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:28:54 GMT

Level Who are sent there? Score
Purgatory Repenting Believers Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Very Low
Level 2 Lustful Moderate
Level 3 Gluttonous High
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious High
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Low
Level 7 Violent Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers High
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Low

Those are my results haha well i gess that i am modertly violent ahahhahahah well stay away from JOLENE haha just kidding i am not violent at all well i geuss that i will talk to you all later!!

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:46:11 GMT

Uhhghghhg I hate the bank so much, i always overdraft...and then i always have to make transfers to cover my balances. Oh well n e ways Prom is on saturday and I am so excited to get dressed up but im not that excited for prom itself... but yeah

i like never write in this n e more.. i am supposed to be in lunch right now but i am sick to my stomach i dont feel good at all i think its cuz i ate allt hat licorice in OJT. hah ne hoo... i gotta work tonight and then study for an political science test that i have to do good on cuz i am like failing every other class right now...

Jennie X do you still work at Merwins... ???

And i guess thats all for now more later on.. or well much later probobly. Ill talk to you al later! See ya im out!@

Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:30:53 GMT

so my birthday was on sunday and it was great i went to the casino and lost my ass off, yeah alot and then yesterday i didnt go to school and i went and got another tattoo and my nose pierced so thats all great fun well more later on when i feel like it talk to you all alter!!! BYE and matt happy aniversery I am so happy for you!

just sitting... doing nothing

Sun, 04 Apr 2004 04:59:09 GMT

yea yea me and joe are just sitting here doing nothin... i am so tired though i had to work a full shift today, yea me working a FULL shift i know its amazing i complain when i have to work 1 to 5 haha. But n e ways joe got me the PRETTIEST ring in the entire UNIVERSE lol for my birthday its so pretty and i love it...almost as much as i love joe haha i almost wrote hoe hahahaha n e ways... and he got me this cute toe ring and i love toe rings so it all works out. and he just HAD to give it to me early even though my b-day isnt untill next sunday wink wink for all of you who are wondering.. its on easter i should kick my moms ass for having me around easter hah jk its not soo bad except its my 18th and who wants to commit sins and do bad things on god for saking easter sunday?? MEE!!! thats who haha. cuz i am a bad kid... yea real bad i am a gangsta hahahahhaha yea right me!!! oh woe is me, but n e hoo i am going to go cuz i am getting sick of typing nad i am losing my typing skills.
I will talk to you all later on the flip side.. i heard that in a movie once...

LOV YA ALL!

Windy City Here I come

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:41:35 GMT

Well i suppose I havent written in this in a while but frankly i dont have too much to say, i have been busy with my friends, work, school and joe.. thats basically what all my time has consisted of. Tonight me and Joe and my mom and Steve leave for Chicago for Spring Break, im really excited i think it should be a lot of fun.

DONNA I TRIED CALLING YOU BUT U MUST HAVE A NEW NUMBER... BUT I WAS CALLING TO SAY... HAPPY BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!

okay so back to the normal events, my life is going pretty good right now except for i got my report card back and i got 3 c's and 2 b's not the hottest report card that i have ever seen oh well. Right when we get back from Chi Town.. Joe has to be admitted into the hospital for some testing.. which really sucks.. for a week. So I wil be at the hospital for the rest of my spring break... Poor guy never gets cut n e slack. But I guess i shall be going now cuz i am kinda running out of things to say

THE SUN WILL COME OUT TOMORROW~~~~ ALWAYS ANTICIPATE THE SUN RISE AND NEVER THINK ABOUT THE SUN SET!

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 17:08:51 GMT

So anyways I was sitting here having a really good day and all of a sudden i come on to live journal and read this bullshit about jon and this other girl so now i am totally sitting here thinking about the Dashboard Confessional song, Screaming Infedelities... this totally sucks and i really want to break down in tears and cry right now i havent been this hurt in a long time...

but anyways i guess i wont dwell on that bad and just look forward to the good...

I am going to my moms this weekend and i dont have school tomorrow and i dont have to work until sunday at one, which is nice as hell.. i really want to do something with Tony this weekend... I HOPE HE CALLS ME... lol so yea tony basically call me lol

This is me NOT GIVING A SHIT N E MORE ABOUT N E THING!!!!!
See ya

Oh Confusion in the Driver Seat

Sun, 29 Feb 2004 06:17:22 GMT

That should be the title of a song, i am going to write a song and have that as the title, i have just decided. Okay well this weekend has been going by just swell i must say so myself. Yesterday I went to a haunted bridge and house with my cousin and then we went to Caribou and there were these REALLY annoying like Jr.High girls and I was thinking to mylsef how much I hoped that I wasnt like that when I was in Jr. High, but i dont think i was at least I am hoping not. Then we went to Byerly's and bought some artichokes. Then we went home and ate them and watched "The Real World Paris that You never saw" lol it was pretty damn hilarious.

Then today I had to work from 9 to 5, it was actually a really fun day at work, I dropped a 1000 count bottle of Paxil on the floor and then went flying everywhere i was stepping on pills like an hour after i cleaned it all up lol. Then later on during lunch i opened the fridge at work and i dropped an entire jar of salsa on the ground.. htat sucked i can still smell it lol. It was just an eventful day at woek to say teh least and i was getting paid for all this lol. thats awesome.

Then I came home and got ready super ass fast and hten JoNNy came over and met my aunt...*akward*... and then we went and ate at Perkins, I had french toast and it was so good but it filled me up soo fast. Then i started not to feel good so I went home and hten i came out to my moms house and she went to visit a friend in Princeton, so I went with her cuz i have a friend that lives like right arougn the corner from tehre so then I hung out with my friend Josh, it was a good time cuz I havent seen him forever.

Now I just got home, wow that was prob way more than you guys needed to know... I wish that Jonny would make up his mind about some things sometimes... ya know?

MOre later on the homefront yo catch ya later homie. JUST KIDDING
God Bless all

Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:52:11 GMT

Matt I hope you read my posts and I hope you feel well kinda dumb...???

oh the joy of being me,,,,,,,,,NOT

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:34:16 GMT

So I have spent so much money in the last two days and i just got paid lol... that is not a good thing, oh well. So today I woke up like way too early for me to even be alive. So i woke up and hung out with my mom and my step dad for a little while cuz they were babysitting this cute baby. Then we went to Target and bought the baby some stuff. Then i came home and sat arounf for a long ass time then an old neighbor of mine came over that i havent seen for like a year. it was nice to see him.

SO then I watched the baby for a little while cuz my mom just fucking went out nad bought a new car.. A damn 2004 Dodge Stratus LT, it has 60 miles on it! What a joke she doesnt deserve a new car. but n e ways she was late nad we got in this arguemnt so then i was late for my plans

now to my plans. I went to a movie with TOny, the same movie that i saw last night. And for some reason the movie went by really fast. Prob cuz We werent there for the first like 20 min cux of my moms stupid ass. But n e ways, so then after the movie we went to Caribou and got some coffee, we both got Vanilla COolers, wierd, then we went to Pac SUn and I bought a really cute new pair of jeans they look so hot on my lol.

Then we drove around for a little while then i brought him back to his car. and well said good night THATS IT~ lol.. then i went back to my moms house and changed, and then i went and played pool with a few of my friends in Elk River, then... i came back home and now i am ready to about fall asleep - what a lame ass well ya all... i guess that i will tlak to yo later i know how boring this one was for you sorry!
LOVE YA ALL SOO MUCH Aloha!

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:24:30 GMT

here tony 763 442 3058

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:10:35 GMT

well still one handed and looooovin it, just kidding! what kind of sick freak do u think i am haha

that pic is so crazy.... i typed search for atmosphere and thats what came up... go figure.

that is the hottest pic i have ever seen!! yummy yummy... thats what i was lookin for haha

sad

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:01:12 GMT

i fractured my elbow so i can only type with one hand so this is short. i am sad i am a gimp, good bye

wow

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 05:53:47 GMT

wow i cant sleep at all my mind keeps wandering off and i start to think about my grandma... i miss her. i miss her so much, thats all i guess i am going to try to get to sleep...im so tired

Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:23:33 GMT

i am so bored... and jonny wont answer his phone... i want to go do something with him, i feel like going to uptown... cuz i never go there...

wait he did call i just didnt hear my phone
sweet now he is going to a hockey game with his dad that sucks i really wanted to hang out with him... okay maybe i will call Mariss and go do something with her, well see...

alright see ya later

Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:52:43 GMT

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TOMORROW TO ALL OF YOU! I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD ONE!!

hey there all

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:15:00 GMT

i am at my moms house which i havent been to in a while. in elk river. wierd. her and my step dad are getting a divorce so its kinda wierd around ehre i miss you too tia and tony and jonny! i think i might come up there tomorrow jonny, you just have to tell me how to get there more later see ya