Glenn Family Services has been hosting an annual grief camp to help youth better understand loss. This year, the event was renamed Camp Logan in honor of Logan Davis, who died at age 18 in a car wreck in July 2020 before entering his senior year at Owensboro Catholic.
Since his passing, his mom, Karla Davis, has been working on ways to help continue his legacy and honor him.
Glenn’s Coordinator of Grief Support and Community Care Betty Medley Wallace said that the Grief Camp had been on pause since 2019 since the pandemic, and she’d been wanting to restart the annual event.
“I really feel like there’s so many young people to lose a parent or sibling or somebody asked that I feel like I need to start camp the camp back again, and then I asked her, ‘how would you feel if we called it Camp Logan? And she was just so honored,” Medley Wallace said.
Karla spoke about his legacy and she said when she received the call from Medley Wallace that this camp was perfect to help carry her son’s legacy.
She said that her son’s faith was very important to him as was looking for ways to love people. So finding a way to combine the two is to her the best way to honor him.
“Logan had such a huge impact on the lives of others in his 18 years and continues to do so since he’s been gone. It’s an honor for this camp to be named after Logan, where we can continue his legacy while helping others in the process,” Karla said.
Karla and some of her family members will also be there facilitating and volunteering in groups during the camp, trying to help serve where they can. Through talking about their loss, she hopes the family can teach the youth that loss happens and they don’t feel alone in their loss.
Through what she heard about Logan, Medley Wallace said that she knew the camp would be perfect to carry his legacy.
The one-day camp is free to all participants and will allow these youth to receive a t-shirt with Logan’s silhouette, prizes and the chance to vent and learn how to process their emotions with loss.
The camp is open to people ages 6 to 16 who have experienced a relative’s or close friend’s death. Through it, they hope the participants build a bond and support each other in their grief process while teaching them appropriate ways to grieve.
Medley Wallace said that it’s important that they understand how to healthily process grief as young as possible because it prepares them for the deaths to come in life.
“When you go through that first loss, and it could be a pet, you have to honor that, and you have to be able to express your emotions at that time because if you don’t when you go through life and you start experiencing some of those hard losses, you’re not going to know what to do with it,” she said.
The camp is free and will be held at Precious Blood Parish Hall on Saturday, September 9. For more information, click here.
