This site is a tribute to Nathan Howson, who was born in Rotherham on July 05, 2005. He is much loved and will always be remembered.

Nathan is our youngest son, he was a kind and caring boy but he didn't have an easy life. At the age of 4 he had a speech problem that held him back at school but he never complained about the extra work he had to do. Over the next few years he worked hard and came on with his learning leaps and bounds.

Nathan joined the school choir and over the course of a few years he he took part in the young voices singing at places like the New York Football stadium in Rotherham ans the Sheffield Arena with singers like Toyah Wilcox and Stacey Soloman.

All through Nathans life he loved to dress up, the box of costumes in the loft is huge. Nathan loved Halloween and would always sort his costume early and have me practice his face painting before hand. Halloween wasn't only about the costumes, pumpkin carving and fun it was also the sweets, Nathan had a sweet tooth.

Just like a typical teenager Nathan loved gaming and would often shout at his games and get annoyed with them. Nathan had been diagnosed with the start of anxiety and depression and he was waiting to get help. He wasn't a bad boy but he took things to heart easily and always took it out on himself.

It wasn't until Nathan died that we found out from school what a clever boy he was and just how well he was doing in his classes, we also found out what a kind and caring boy he was while in school often helping others no matter who they were.

Nathan was a kind and caring boy who rescued animals, he found a baby hedgehog down a hole and we cared for it until it was old enough to be released. he was very hands on with the training of the guide dog puppies we trained and he had all kinds of pets from rabbits to hamsters to rats and even our own pigmy hedghog.

A funny story from when Nathan was 7

We had been out and Nathan had bought something and on our return home he asked if he could put his name on it. I gave him a pen and off he went. A little while later he came back and said to me that he had put N O H on it as they are his nostrils. It was hard to keep a straight face while explaining they were his initials and not his nostrils.

On Saturday 11th July Nathan woke up and couldn't move the left side of his body and he got very agitated. He started fitting and drifting into unconsciousness and we called for an ambulance. I will not go in to all the details but after arriving at the children's hospital in Sheffield he was sedated and he went for scans where a blood clot was found so he underwent surgery to stop the bleed and remove the clot. Over the course of the next few day Nathan started to deteriorate and he was pronounce dead at 10.23am on Wednesday 15th July just 10 days after his 15th birthday.

Part of Nathan still lives on in others as during this awful time we found the strength from somewhere to agree to organ donation which means that 6 people out there are living a better quality of life.

Not a single day goes by where we do not think of him, the little things are the things we miss most of all. We are so very proud of him and we love him dearly but our hearts are truly broken and our world has come tumbling down around us. There is a saying "The hardest thing we have had to hear is that our child died but the hardest thing we have to do is live since that moment".