Kaiere Maddox-Browne

KAIERE CAME INTO THIS LIFE ON FEBRUARY 15,2002. HE CAME INTO OUR HOME IN DECEMBER, 2006. HE HAD A FUNNY STREAK AND LIKED TO LAUGH. WHEN WE FIRST MET HE JOKINGLY SAID, I LIKE TO EAT PAPER AND HE LAUGHED. HE ALWAYS HAD DIFFICULTY SAYING THE WORD YELLOW AND WOULD SAY LELLOW AND THEN EXCUSE MYSELF. HE WOULD REMINISCE ON HIS EARLY YEARS FROM TIME TO TIME AND SAY MOMMY YOU REMEMBER SO AND SO THEN HED SAY I DONT FORGET ANYTHING! HE ATTENDED THE EAST FRANKFORD CHILD CARE CENTER AND LATER HE ATTENDED THE JOHN MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FROM SEPTEMBER 2007 TO JUNE 2013. HE HAD HIS UPS AND DOWNS AT THE SCHOOL BUT HE MET A SPECIAL TEACHER WHO MADE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON HIS LIFE ACADEMICALLY. HE WAS HONORED IN A CEREMONY AS ONE OF THE TOP ACHIEVERS IN THE 4TH GRADE PSSA TEST IN DECEMBER 2012. HE GRADUATED FROM THE FIFTH GRADE IN JUNE 2013 AND WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO ATTENDING THE BETTER WAY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY. KAIERE LOVED LEARNING. HE ALWAYS DELIGHTED IN SHARING WHAT HE LEARNED. HE WAS INTERESTED IN READING ABOUT ANIMALS, HISTORY AND THE BIBLE. HE WAS AN ADVENTURER WITH THE GERMANTOWN ADVENTURER CLUB. HE WAS ALWAYS VERY DILIGENT IN LEARNING HIS SCRIPTURE ASSIGNMENTS. HE WAS A VERY ACTIVE YOUNG MAN. HE ENJOYED PLAYING ALL TYPES OF GAMES, SUCH AS BOARD GAMES, VIDEO GAMES AND SPORTS. HE WAS SELECTED BY JOHN MARSHALL TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BASKETBALL CLINIC THAT TAUGHT YOUNGSTERS TO PLAY. HE WAS ALWAYS EAGER TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS AND PLAY, WHENEVER HE WAS ON THE COURT. HE LOVED TO TRAVEL AND WAS ALWAYS EAGER TO GO ON FAMILY TRIPS, SOME OF WHICH TOOK HIM OUT OF STATE AND TO THE BEACHES OF NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE AND MARYLAND. ON HIS LAST DOCTORS VISIT HE TOLD HIS DOCTOR THAT HIS FAVORITE FOOD WAS BAKES. HE WENT FROM EATING PAPER TO LIKING BAKES. HE LEAVES TO CHERISH HIS MEMORY : HIS FATHER COLVIS BROWNE HIS MOTHER MILAGRO BROWNE, HIS BROTHER NASIR BROWNE, HIS FOSTER SISTERS YAHMEENAH NEWMAN AND SKYLA DRAUGHON AND FOSTER BROTHERS RICHARD SCOTT AND QUAMIR CONNOR; 6 AUNTS, 7 UNCLES: HIS SPECIAL ED- MS SYLVIA ACHESON AND SPECIAL FRIEND MR. KENNETH GREEN. A viewing will be held Sunday beginning at 4pm at 200 E. Clivden Street Phila., PA 19119. Services will begin at 6pm. Burial will follow at Merion Memorial Park leaving his residence at 11am precisely.