Peagler, Zachary

This is my beautiful, sweet baby boy.

Zachary Peagler Forever 19 

10/03/01-5/05/21

The day our lives changed forever. 

Zach was always full of life and full of energy. Until he wasn’t. He was creative, daring, outspoken, lively, loud, creative with his imagination. He loved dearly and he loved hard. 

Zach’s teenage years found him experimenting with different drugs. Mostly opioids. We sent him to a rehab and then to a sober living house where I feel he was betrayed. I was betrayed. I trusted. It led to his death on the couch in his sober living house. One pill full of fentanyl, that he got from his house manager. All alone, in the night, in a house full of others trying to live. Zach knowingly took that one pill. He did not knowingly take a pill that had fentanyl in it. 

Our lives will never ever be the same. There is a hole in our hearts and our lives that will never be filled. Not in a day. A year. A decade. A lifetime. Son, I love you more than you will ever know. More than I ever thought was humanly possible. Till I see you again xoxo