A St. John’s woman says she can’t believe the outpouring of love and support she’s received since a memorial Christmas tree was removed from its location at Brother Egan field in St. John’s.

Rhonda White lost her son Marshall in the spring of 2020 and since then, family and friends have been maintaining memorial at the corner of the field.

In recent weeks they added a Christmas tree, but White says she was shocked when she went to visit the memorial and the tree was gone.

She took to Stolen On the Avalon to express her shock and ask for people to keep an eye out for the tree.

That’s when Marshall’s childhood friend Johnny Reddy stepped in.

“And he said to me ‘I’ve been so heart-broken since I seen your post about Marshall’s tree, that I went out and bought a tree and decorated it,” says White. She says Johnny brought the tree down to the memorial site and her mother even told her that Johnny, who went to school with Marshall all the way through school, put an ornament on the tree that he made in Kindergarten.