Brooke desserich biography

Hazel Torres

She lived for just six years, but Elena Desserich left behind hundreds of reminders of her love for her family that will last for a lifetime.

After Elena died of brain cancer in August 2007, her parents, Keith and Brooke Desserich, and little sister, Grace, found hundreds of notes she had written and hidden all over their home in the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming, Ohio.

The notes all contained messages telling her family how much she loved them, The Gospel Herald reported.

The notes consisted of drawings and messages, which she secretly tucked away all over the house before they were discovered days after her death.

The Desserich couple said they didn't tell Elena that she was dying after she was diagnosed with an inoperable rare form of brain cancer in 2006.

But even though her parents didn't tell her that she had less than a year to live, they belie