To me, my brother was the handsomest, smartest and most talented man in the world.  I am so blessed to be his sister, and I continue to adore him and cherish his memory every day.  Jesse, your life was a true gift to all of us.  I love you and miss you so much,
Meredith

Dear Emma,
     We are so sorry for you and your family. You are in our thoughts and in our hearts.
   Miss Carrie, Miss Lisa,& Mrs. Tata

I am deeply sorry for your loss.
I worked with Jesse at GMAC.  He was a great person who provided the utmost effort when called upon, in many cases with short notice.  He was always very helpful and caring.  We will miss him.
God Bless,
Steve Medvid
Finance RVA Team

Stephanie:
Patti Goodwin just emailed me about Jess. I’m shocked and saddened. Since it is such late notice, I will likely not see you tonight at the funeral. I will keep you and yours in my prayers — prayers for the peace that passes all understanding. If not, I’ll try for tomorrow. And, I’ll be in touch. If I can be of any help, let me know. So hard to believe.
Ruthanne
215-428-0809

I worked with Jesse while at GMAC and always thought he was a smart and pragmatic person.  However I really didn’t know the details of his life until I read his obituary.  I wish I had gotten to know him better.  He accomplished much and touched many lives.  My heart goes out to you for your loss. 
Rob Lux

Dear Stephanie and Family,
My deepest sympathy for the loss of Jesse. I can’t even imagine the pain of your broken hearts.  God Bless You Always.
Mary Ambruzs
Anti-Infective Group
OMJSA, Raritan Campus

You are all in my thoughts and prayers during this sad time. I knew Jesse from school and was in band with him. God bless.
Tricia Anderson DeJesus

Dear Stephanie, Emma, and James,
We have never met, but I went to high school with your husband/daddy.  I had recently caught up to him on facebook, though we hadn’t had a chance to exchange emails.  I hung out with Jesse in school- he could always bring a smile to my face.  I know that he was a great kid, and I can only imagine what a wonderful husband and father he had become.  I live in Boston, MA, and will not be able to attend the services, but my thoughts are prayers are with you.
Sarah Siems Maston

My thoughts and prayers are with you all. I had the pleasure of working with Jesse at GMAC. He was well liked and respected by all of his coworkers. It was a pleasure to work with Jesse. He will be missed.

Stephanie;
My heart and prayers are with you and your family
Susan Chace

Dear Stephanie,
Words seem so inadequate at times like this, I am so sorry for your loss.  I can only say God will see you through this valley.  I will remember you and your family in prayer.
God Bless you and your family,
Aggie King

Jesse was an irreplaceable member of our team and well liked and respected by everyone he worked alongside. More importantly it was obvious from the turnout at the visitation and notes on this blog that he touched many lives beyond GMAC ResCap.  We will never forget his contribution to our success and friendship.
Dave Stadler CIO GMAC ResCap

A friend of mine from high school shared with me the devastating news about Jesse. Jesse and I became friends in school, being in the same English and German classes through middle and high school. I remember him being a truly gifted writer. He could write the most beautiful and intellectual poetry, in both English and German! What a talented mind. He will always be remembered by us a sharp mind and incredible wit. His year-book signings were always the most funny and most clever. I hope to attend the service to pay my respects. My thoughts and prayers are with all the family. Sincerely,
Maureen (Fox)

Your friends at Elizabethtown College express their sincere sympathy to you and your family during this difficult time.
May the peace which comes from the memories of love shared comfort you now and in the days ahead.

It was my great privilege and joy to be Jesse’s professor of music history and theory at Dickinson College, and to call upon his great talents as an accompanist of the Dickinson College Choir from time to time.   Jesse was a wonderful student, a quiet young man of integrity and sincerity, and of all the many hundreds of music students I have taught I think he took first prize as a sight-reader at the keyboard.
He and I enjoyed several piano-four-hands sessions during his years at Dickinson, and he could lick me at either the bottom or the top part on the keyboard.  I share my deep sympathy with his family, and am deeply saddened to say farewell to such an outstanding student and friend.

Truman Bullard,  Ph.D
Professor of Music Emeritus
Dickinson College
 

Dear Mary & James:
I send to you my deepest sympathy, on your loss, of your dear son Jesse.  You and your family are in most heart-felt prayers and thoughts.  No parent should ever have to bury their child.  I pray that God will give you increasing strength in the coming days to ease your pain, which, of course, seems endless to you now.   Hug those children of his, and always tell those wonderful stories, about their father to them.
Sincerely, With Love,
Deb Minnerly (Warwick H.S. Health-room Assistant)

Dear Aunt Mary, Uncle Jim, cousin Meredith and to Jesse’s wife and children,
We are deeply saddened by your loss. It has been many years since we have seen Jesse and his passing reminds us of the importance of keeping in contact and staying close to family. We are at a loss for words – please accept our love and thoughts.
Christian, Reyhane, Isabelle and Sebastian Petersen

Dear Stephanie and family,
I was saddened to hear of your loss and will keep you and yourr family in my thoughts and prayers.  Take comfort that Jesse is still with you and will watch over each of you at all times.  I am sorry that I did not get to know Jesse well, but remember vividly visiting young Emma Grace and her proud parents shortly after she arrived on this earth.  Celebrate the wonderful times you had with him, over and over again.  Your family, your memories, your children and you faith will provide the support you need to move on.
Our very best regards,
Trish, Joe and Joseph Monteforte
patriciamonteforte@comcast.net

My sincere condolences to all of Jesse’s family.  Although I worked with Jesse for short period of time, I was able to connect with him at many levels. He was a brilliant, hardworking, and trustworthy individual who can be relied on at all times. He had an impressive work ethic and great sense of humor. I am saddened by his passing and he will be missed. God Bless Jesse and his family.
Siv Anantuni
GMAC

I am so sorry for your loss.  I had just met Jesse face to face a few weeks ago.  I enjoyed working with him at GMAC.  As you can already tell, he was well liked and respected.  My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
Steve Uline
 

Dear Stephanie, children and family,
Words are never sufficient at these times to express my sincere, heartfelt sympathy for the loss of your husband, father, son and brother. I can not imagine the sense of loss you must feel but I do know that the tears and sadness that deepen your loss will, in time, turn to smiles and joyful memories as you think of your beloved.
Sincerely,
Diane Sullivan
 

Stephanie, Emma, James and other members of Jesse’s family,
I am deeply saddened by your loss and my thoughts are with all of you during this time.  I worked with Jesse at GMAC and as so many have mentioned he will be missed, so many of us looked to him as someone we could always count on to have the answer we needed, to quickly answer an email late at night and to always say or email something that made us laugh or smile.  My hope is that Jesse is watching over all of us and finally realizing and taking credit for the impact he had at GMAC and how he touched the lives of so many of his GMAC family.  May all the wonderful memories you have in your heart help you through this time.
Lisa Correa
 

Dearest Stephanie and Family,
Luis and I are so sorry to hear about the sudden loss of your Jesse. Please know that you, your children and Jesse’s family are in our thoughts and prayers.
With deepest sympathy,
Linda Naeder Sala
(GlaxoSmithKline – Vaccines)

Jim & Mary,
"Hold tight to memories for comfort,
lean on your friends for strength,
and always remember how much you are cared about"

My heart & prayers are with you during this time of sorrow,
may the love of those around you help you through the days ahead.
Gretchen Stark, Elizabethtown College

Meredith and family,
My thoughts and prayers are with you all during this time.
Love and thoughts,
Kathleen Kane

Stephanie,  There are no words.  You, Emma and James are in my thoughts and prayers.
Love Mary Guzic

Although I never had the privilege to meet Jesse as I’m new to the department, I have a sense of Jesse just by listening to the accolades of those around me in the Iowa office; our team will surely miss him.  A loving, hard-working man who will be missed by all.  God Bless Jesse and his family.
Judi Tripolino

Stephanie,
My thoughts are prayers are with you and your family.
With deepest sympathy,
Jessica Weidner
(GlaxoSmithKline)

Stephanie, Emma, James and the rest of Jesse’s family – Please accept my sincerest sympathies in the loss of your husband and father.  Jesse was an absolute joy to work with, he was always willing to help – no matter what the cost.  Based on his work-ethic, I can only imagine the kind of husband and father he was – irreplaceable.  Such a tragic event has taken him at such a young age from your daily lives, and what an extremely difficult decision you had to endure – I truly look up to you and continue my prayers for you through what can only be expected to be some of the most difficult days of your lives ahead.  Thank you for allowing Jesse to be an organ donor, this will allow him to live on in so many others across the country.  God Bless you and your family.
Wendi Welter and family
GMAC Mortgage – Waterloo, IA

Eileen and I were shocked to learn about the loss of your son, Jesse, yesterday.  I am always baffled by these shocking events that seem to affect the nicest people.  I remember years ago sitting with a friend in the waiting room of Lancaster General Hospital.  He had just received the horrible news that his daughter would probably not live to the next morning.  I remember searching for some words of comfort for him and I remarked that we don’t understand these things and probably never will.  I reminded him that every day we say "thy will be done…" and in that we can find meaning.  I hope you can take some comfort in knowing that many share in your loss and care.
Harry and Eileen Flick

My sincere condolences to Stephanie, Emma, James and all of Jesse’s family.  Jesse was a brilliant man, as you know, and will be sadly missed.  He was greatly respected at GMAC Mortgage, a genius that we all admired.  I was so saddened by his passing, because the world was a better place with him in it.    May God bless and comfort you.
Pat Karpowicz

Dear Jim and Mary,
    Milt and I are so sorry to learn of your son’s death.  Please accept our sympathies for you and your family.  God works in mysterious ways.  Your memory book must already have pages full of wonderful things you have done and enjoyed together.  Our prayers are with you all.
    Sincerely,
          Milt and Lois Morgan

Stephanie and Family,
Knowing that words do not fill the void that is left from the loss of a loved one, I can only offer you my prayers in your time of loss.
I with you peace and comfort at this difficult time.
Sincerely,
Renee Dorn

Our prayers and condolences especially to parents James and Mary on the passing of your son Jesse. Many memories float through our minds when we reflect on the ‘Bossler Corner’ days of your childhood years, Jim!
May God grant you peace and comfort during this hard time.
Sincerely,
Nevin & Barbara Kraybill

I am so very sorry for your loss. Jesse was a very special part of our high school class, and I will miss him dearly. I live in Minnesota now and will be unable to pay my respects in person, but please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you at this time.
God love you and bless you,
Christi Brownell Kortuem

Dear Stephanie, Emma & James,
Please know how very much you are cared about and how deeply your loss is felt by all of us.  You are in our thoughts and prayers!
Love,
Brian, Lee Ann, Sam & Parker Kurash

Dear Mary/Jim
       My heart goes out to you.  I am deeply saddened by the news of Jesse’s recent death.  Although I didn’t get to know him well, I know that he was a good young man because he has a great mom/dad.  Remember, grief is not the end of all. You still have the world in which he lived and which he enjoyed so very much.  You still have its beauty and its loveliness and you still have so many fond memories he left behind.  Share them in his memory. 
Take care and God Bless you and your family
Your friend always     Dick McCue
 

May GOD abundant love console you through such a difficult time Stephanie. 
Your colleague Laura Bretone-Vaccines-GSK.

Stephanie,
We are all in shock, and feel so much for you and your children. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
God Bless you.
Your cousins,
Sharon & Ron Oberleitner

Dear Stephanie and family,  I received this letter when my Mother passed away. It gave me great comfort, and I hope to pass it along to you, with the hope it brings comfort to your family.  Death is nothing at all–I have only slipped away into the next room. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the same easy way you always used to. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effort. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of your mind because I am out of your sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near just around the corner.  All is well, nothing is past; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be just as it was before.  Only better, infinitely  happier and forever.–we will all be one in Christ.
Trish, I am so sorry for your loss also.  You always said Jesse was a gem.                                   
Liz Stiffler

Jesse was a brilliant man and will be missed by so many.   He was always there when anyone needed his expertise at GMAC Mortgage and he will never be forgotten.  May God Bless you and your family.  
The Vinciguerra Family

Our hearts are so saddened by your loss. You are in our thoughts and prayers much and we pray that Gods strength will carry you through this most difficult time. Our love and sympathy ,
Fred and Julie (Shreiner) Heller

I have worked with Jesse at GMAC for the last several years.  I always looked forward to working on projects with him both for his knowledge and sense of humor.  As I write this, I am laughing just thinking about all the conversations we had over the years.  Working with Jesse was a privilege I will never forget. I wish your family the best during this very difficult time.
Ray Clements

Dear Jim & Mary, We were deeply saddened to read about the loss of your son. We would like to express our deepest sympathy to the family at this time. Fulton Bank, Lititz South Office.

Mary and Jim,
Crystal and I learned this morning of Jesse’s passing, and we are deeply saddened for you and for your entire Family.
We cannot begin to imagine your feelings at this time; however, we trust that you will find solace and peace in the days ahead, as you dwell on what a wonderful individual he was.
You are great people with a strong Faith, and we will continue to remember the entire Shreiner Family in our thoughts and PRAYERS.
Regardless of our religious affiliations, I know that we all worship the same GOD and FATHER, and please know that I remembered Jesse at a noon Lenten Mass this day.
Sincerely…Crystal & Frank Concino

I wish I had known more about Jesse, but as we go through our daily routine, the human factor escapes us. Jesse however placed that memorable marker in your head. He was a very intelligent and an easy person to communicate with. Jesse was a pleasure to work with as he could discuss system and technical issues at a level that did not frustrate you:-) He was very much respected by everyone at this location in Lewisville. I just regret that I did not make the time to get to know him better. I will make an effort to get to know everyone on a more personable layer from now on. Thanks Jesse for being the person that I will remember and God bless your family. 
Terry Webb

Stephanie, Emma, James and all of Jesse’s family – My thoughts, prayers and wish for strength are with you all.  As hard as it was to know you must let him go, know that his memory and how he touched peoples lives will be forever with all of you each and every day.  He will be missed deeply at GMAC, he was our rock too.  God Bless. 
Sandi C.

We have known and worked with Jesse over the past 3 years.  Jessie has made an impact with us and all others that have worked with him at Fiserv.  Jesse was truly a special person.  Very rarely are there people like Jessie that just by their presence, makes one feel good about themselves.
We talked to Jesse on a daily basis, all hours of the day and night.  We respected his insight and knowledge that he brought to our conversations each day.  We enjoyed talking to Jesse in both good and stressful situations.  Jessie could take an extremely critical and stressful situation, and with out losing any urgency or importance associated with the resolution, interject calm and humor in to it. 
Jesse knew the implication his job had to successfully run the business though also knew the importance of his life outside of work.  Jesse talked fondly of his family and one could tell how important they were to him. 
We will miss Jesse.
 Bob Sarandria, Melissa Zink
Fiserv Family

I received the devastating news about Jesse from one of his co-workers, an old friend of mine who wondered if I knew him from Lancaster. Although I never met him in person, I can still remember his mother talking about him when she was my 10th grade English teacher. It is clear even in now-distant memory how proud she was of him and how much she loved him. I remember well how particularly happy she was about his early accomplishments in music. I am so sorry for the loss you have experienced and for the profound sorrow I know you are feeling. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.
Josh Johns

We will miss our beloved nephew, Jesse Lee, more than words can express. We hold him in our memory best as he was when he was a little boy………..laughing, running, jumping, playing with his cousins, our children, Liz and Johnny, and with his sister, Meredith, on one of our many adventures.  Jesse, you grew up to be such a wonderful man, but we will always keep you close in our hearts as the child that you were. We love you, Uncle Denny and Aunt Marie