My deepest sympathy to you and your family. I do not know you or your family, but my heart goes out to you. God Bless. Vicki

Grace, Mercy, and Peace to you
from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ...

Dear Hannah, Little Gabe, Deroo Family, and the Sukos; I am wanting to send your families my thoughts and prayers. I am a member of Silverdale Baptist Church and Caleb had visited our church and he and his wife are on our Mission Board. May our Great God strenghten you at this time of loss and keep in mind that we are praying for you always. Gabe is with the Lord now and one thing for sure he has made a great impact in other peoples lives. God bless.

We are praying for you, your son, and extended family. May our Heavenly Father envelope you with His peace and love at this difficult time. May you feel him holding you in the palm of His hand. We want you to know we are grateful for your husband and all the other fathers, sons, and husbands who have paid the extreme sacrifice for our freedoms. Our hearts are broken for your pain and suffering.

Dear Hannah, and Family, You will be in our prayers. Thank you for the sacrifice you have made for our country and the freedom of others. It makes me so thankful for the hope that we have in Christ, that one day we will have no more pain, and no more tears because of the ultimate sacrifice of Christ. I look forward to thanking your husband/son/brother, face to face in heaven someday. Praying for you, Jennifer (DeGraaff) Walter

Our prayers are with you and your son. We know that God has a plan even in tragedy. Seek His face and He will carry you through. God Bless You.

To Gabriel's wife and family,
Even though we do not know each other my heart hurts for you and I am praying--words cannot fill the loss but Rev. 5:8 says "they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." Our Lord knows and hears and never forgets your pain. May all our prayers, lifted up on your behalf, carry you daily one step at a time. In His strength alone, Nancy Anderson

Dear Hannah and Gabriel,
May your Heavenly Father hold your hearts and your hands in the moments, hours, days, and years to come, for He promised that He will never leave you comfortless. Your Daddy and your Husband is a true American Hero and a Hero for the Cause of Christ. We trust that God will use the life, the testimony, and the sacrifice of Gabe to win many of his fellow soldiers to Christ, so that you can see that God has HIS eternal purpose for your present sorrow. Hannah, your life is a reflection of Christ; and He will be the constant and abiding source of your strength. Hannah and little Gabriel, you will remain in our hearts and in our prayers.

Our many prayers continue with all the family. Jesus is your Rock in our weary land. I (Aunt M.) think of your loss, Hannah, as a personal "promotion" to experience God in a way most of us will never have to. You will learn what it is to trust God for the intimacy, provision, and protection you had in your husband. Even though you have such loving, Christ-honoring support from both sides of the family, you will gain a precious Companion who will always be there for you at a moments' call. "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know" (Jeremiah 33:3).

Out of Streams in the Desert: "And He took him aside from the multitude" (Mk. 7:33). "Taken aside by Jesus, To feel the touch of His hand; To rest for a while in the shadow Of the Rock in a weary land." cowman

RIP brother...thanks for your ultimate sacrfice.

My deepest sympathies to you. I do not know you or your family, but I wanted to express my sorrow for your loss. May the God of all comfort wrap you in His loving, tender arms. I have a tender spot for all our military. My boyfriend is a Marine and expects to be deployed soon. You will be in my prayers. God bless, Diana

Sincere condolences to the DeRoo and Suko family. Being originally from tacoma i keep current with the news. My son David works with Chastity at CMU so i heard about Gabe from that way also. We pray for his soul and all the souls taken from war whether we believe in war or not. They are braver than any of us shall ever be.

To the Family of Gabriel DeRoo,

I did not have the honor of knowing Gabriel or his family, but I am a military wife with a husband now serving in Iraq. My heart goes out to you. I am so sorry for your loss, and would like to thank you for raising a son with honor, pride, courage. I am sure you are very proud of the man, son, husband and father he was. My thoughts and prayers are with you, may god give you strength and courage to get thru this terrible loss. Your son is, was and always will be a hero to this country.

Dear Hannah, Our hearts went out to you in sorrow when the Rogers told us of Gabriel’s death. Until we’ve been there, none of us can begin to comprehend how difficult it must be to come to the “until death do we part” time in our married life—especially when it seems so very premature. When our youngest daughter lost her husband in an auto accident all we could think of was God’s promise: “My grace is sufficient for thee…” And truly it was God’s grace that brought her and her little ones (one and four years old) through it all. Her daily dependance on the Lord (actually, clinging and crying out) brought her into a far closer walk with Him than she had ever imagined was possible. And now her son is 20 and her daughter 17 and they, like their mother, are also walking very closely with their Savior. God has truly watched over them and blessed them. We wonder how unbelievers can possibly survive such a loss without the Lord.
We are comforted to know of your strong faith, and believe that in His time God will use you to bring hope and encouragement to others. Now we pray that the God of all comfort will sustain you and strengthen you daily. And may He fill you with His peace that passes all understanding and an extra measure of His marvelous grace. With prayers and heartfelt sympathy for you and little Gabe, and for all the Roths and DeRoos, Bruce and Ellen Craswell

Dear Hannah, little Gabriel and the Suko and DeRoo Families, and the Discovery Baptist Church family,
Our heart felt sympathy and condolence are extended to each of you on the lose of Gabe. His memory will extend into eternity. Gabe was highly honored at the Memorial that was conducted here. I don't think there was a dry eye in the place. The ones that gave tribute to Gabe were impacted by the life that Gabe lived. He lift a legacy behind him. Our prayers are with you all.
In His Service,
Chaplain Joe Riley, for myself, Linda, Jonathan, Mary, David and Deborah

To the DeRoo and Suko families,
I was extremely shocked when I heard the news about Gabe, I will be praying for all of you daily as you go through this immensly difficult time in your lives. Gabe touched many people and will always be remembered. I knew Gabe mainly from the church softball team, and I will never forget how he always gave me (and others) a highfive or a word of encouragement, even if we made a bad play, or struck out at bat (which was my specialty). Gabe was a very special person and brave soldier. I share with you my deepest sympathy, love, support, and prayers.
Love in Christ Always,
Lindsey Meneghel

Dear Hannah and the entire Suko and DeRoo Famlies:
Our hearts have been aching for you since we learned of Gabe's death. Please know that many from Gig Harbor and from Fox Island Alliance are lifting you in prayer during these days. May Christ's comfort in your grief and the assurance of a reunion in heaven when someday the Lord welcomes us, His children, sustain you during the months ahead. In Christ, Margie

Hannah, Pastor Mark, Nancy, and the rest of the family,
We want you to know that we have been praying for you since the day we heard the news. We have been praying that the Lord would use his death in the way Gabe wanted - as an opportunity to lead his unit mates to the Lord.
I am honored to have known Gabe, and recall him as a guy who loved the Lord, loved his wife, and loved his extended family as well. I have not had the words (still don't) to express our grief over your (and our) loss.
The day we received the news of Gabe's promotion to the presence of our Lord, I had selected the hymn "This is my Father's World" to sing in chapel. As we sang, the words of the third verse were especially comforting to me, and I hope to you as well:
This is my Father's world, O let me ne'er forget
That though the wrong seems oft' so strong,
God is the ruler yet!"

It is wrong for a young man like Gabe to be killed in the prime of life. It is wrong for a fine young woman to be left a widow so suddenly.
It is wrong for a young child to grow up, never knowing his father.
But our loving Heavenly Father is the ruler, and it is into His Sovereign, loving, faithful hands that we commit you and little Gabe.

May the "Father of mercies and the God of all comfort" be your comfort and strength at this time.

Nathan and Rachel Waldock

I never met you but heard the news from friends Chris and Ruth Rogers. Your testimony of faith in Christ precedes you. In this there is true and lasting honor.

May your life, like the seed that Jesus spoke of, that "falls in the ground and dies," bring forth much eternal fruit. May God bless your whole family with grace in the days ahead to see the fruit that will result from your life and sacrifice.

The victorious Allied soldiers at the World War II battlefield Kohima raised a memorial for their faithful comrades that could stand for you, too: "When you go home, tell them of us and say/For their tomorrow, we gave our today."

So from friend and stranger alike: thanks, Gabe...from a grateful country.

Prayers of many - hundreds atleast - have been prayed for you the past week and continue this week, Hannah and family. I graduated with Gabe and have talked with many of our classmates, sharing grief, sharing memories, and sharing updates since we heard last Monday. Many of us are planning to attend the memorial in September. Gabe will be missed on so many levels. Every person I talk to in this area that knew Gabe is mourning his loss, and is praying fervently for your family. I work at Grace Christian as a teacher and God has really used this already in the lives of those who knew Gabe to be a testimony. Even the newspaper and news broadcasts focused on Gabe's Godly faith. God be praised for using Gabe's life for His glory. God bless your family during this time of grief.
Meghan