Suicide prevention softball tournament: honoring Reed Curry

Heather Ainsley ECB Publishing, Inc. This year marks the third annual memorial softball tournament for Reed Curry, a 15 year old boy who passed away on Nov 19, 2020. On that fateful day, Curry's mother, Ann Marie, came home from work to find the lifeless body of her son, who had committed suicide. “Shock consumed us for the first few months, then the grief kicked in,” she recalls. “That was the ultimate kick in the gut, knowing that your child is gone and is never coming back. So many 'what ifs,' so many 'whys,' so many 'hows.' We blamed ourselves, and we blamed each other. There were so many emotions.” Curry admits that, unfortunately, no one in the family had any idea that Re