Working Together for a Housed and Healthy Brevard.

National Homeless Memorial Day

2025 Homeless Memorial Persons Day

Join us as we honor those who died in our community during the past year while living unsheltered, in shelters, transitional housing, or uninhabitable places and spaces, without a place to call home. Services will be held: 

  • Monday, December 15th at 5 p.m. – Sand Point Park Pavillion (Titusville)
  • Tuesday, December 16th at 1 p.m. – Matthew’s Hope Ministries (Cocoa)
  • Thursday, December 18th at 3 p.m. – Coastline Community Church (Indian Harbor Beach)
  • Thursday, December 18th at 6 p.m. – The R.E.A.L. Church (Cocoa)

In Memoriam, 2025...

David Abfall 

Nathan Adderly 

Rojelio Aquirre

Jeff Alexander 

Russell Arbour

Brad Aspirion

Ronald Baker

Karen Baldwin

Daniel Barnes

Melissa Best 

Andre Bishram

Jordan Blankenship 

Jeremy Bonesteel

David Borgeman

Caelan Burford

Jesse Cain

Colin Choi

Roy Clark

Darion Collins

Cecil Collins

James Couch

Michael John Denton

Mark Dooner

Megan Doty

Danny Doyle

Michael Duus

Charles Earwood

Stephen Foster

Christopher Grafton 

Arwen Halverson

John Hannan

Darryl Raymond Holmes, Sr. 

Justin Johnson 

William Jones 

Brandon Ketzer-Brown

Rontavious Kimbrough

Antonio Kimbrough

Harold Lafferty

Michael Lilja

Eileen Little

Michelle Little

Jason Lloyd

Richard Long

Carlos Lumpkin

Nicole Lynch

Michael May

Jerry McBryde

Teresa McPhilamy

Gerald Merritt

Marshall Middleton

Donna Miller

Joshua Miller

Kevin Miller

Scot Moore

James Mosley

Nicholas Mottolo

Glen Parchinski

Joseph Phernetton

Lisa Presley

Sandra Purvis

Ciari “CiCi” Reardon

Gene Rizzo

George Ross

Louis Saint Macary

Randy Scott

Juan Solis

Petrona Solis 

Steven Spangler

Ed Steel 

Quentin Stevens

Gary Taylor 

Matthew Thomas 

Dean Tognaci

Richard Turner

Valerie Vaden 

Matthew Wallenquest

Beth Warichak

Zyon White

Josh Wimmer

John Yee

2024 Homeless Memorial Persons Day

Services were held on Thursday, December 19, 2024 to honor 65 people who passed away while living unsheltered. 

People in our community will die without a home this year as they face the harsh conditions of living unsheltered. National Homeless Persons Memorial Day, which takes place annually on December 21st: the first day of winter and the longest night of the year, provides a way for us to memorialize their lives. 

Since 1990, hundreds of cities, representing more than 30 states and the District of Columbia, have participated in the National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day. Let’s make this a year of increased awareness and advocacy by memorializing the lives that have been lost in Brevard County, as we work in partnership throughout the coming year to end homelessness.  

If you know of an unsheltered Brevard County resident who passed away due to the effects of homelessness in 2025, please click here to add their name. Help us to remember them. Thank you.

In Memoriam, 2024...

Tauta Aitou

Kenneth Andrews

Vincent Ardito

Aaron Ballard

Daniel Barnes 

Daniel Bassett

Brett Beason

Joanna Brinson

Julius Brown

Raymond Canfield

Andrea Cantrell

John Collins

Robert Cooper

Sharon Daley

Michelle Depietro

Mark Dooner 

Darren Ellingsworth

Sayuri Escamilla

Maria (Freddie) Esquibel

David G’Froehrer

James Gaudet

Joseph Gebbia

Melissa Glover

James Grant

Carl Griffin

Miles Hague

Eugene Harrell

Lana Hopkins

Charles Hunt

Stacey Imes

Chelsey Jasinksi

Joshua Johnson

Michael Johnson

William Jones

Christopher Justice

Brandon Ketzer-Brown

Patrick Louis

Christopher Mackey

Michael Mauzy

Robert McNeal

Teresa McPhilamy

David Meadows

Evalyn Miller

Lanny Nelson

Victor Newman

Terrance O’Brien

Jeffrey Pope

Camron Porter

Joseph Ross

Juan Royal

Frances Russo

Randy Scott

Mark Segretto

Scott Smitte

Michael Staruch

Justin Sully

Matt Thomas

Dean Tognaci

Kevin Trowell

Richard Tucker

Rebecca Vonploennies

April Waters

Terrance Wesley

Joseph Wilkins

Michael Wimmer