Kobe Bryant‘s eldest daughter, Natalia Bryant, took a second on Saturday, Could 9, to recollect John Altobelli, a baseball coach who died alongside her dad and sister, Gianna, and 6 others in a helicopter crash in January.
“Glad Birthday Mr. Alto,” the 17-year-old captioned a photograph of the coach on the sector together with a crimson coronary heart. The pic was initially posted on the Orange Coast Faculty Baseball account in honor of his 57th birthday a day earlier.
Kobe Bryant and John Altobelli. Shutterstock; OCC Baseball/Instagram
Altobelli was the top coach of the Pirates crew for 27 seasons. He died within the January 26 crash in Calabasas, California, alongside together with his spouse, Keri, and daughter Alyssa, who was 13-year-old Gianna’s basketball teammate.
John Altobelli OCC Baseball/Instagram
Assistant basketball coach Christina Mauser was additionally killed within the crash as was Sarah Chester and her daughter Payton, who was one other teammate of Gianna’s. The pilot, Ara Zobayan, additionally died when the chopper he was piloting hit a hill because the group was on their strategy to a basketball recreation at Kobe’s Mamba Sports activities Academy in Thousand Oaks, California.
Along with Natalia, the NBA legend, 41, left behind spouse Vanessa and daughters Bianka, 3, and Capri, 10 months.
On Could 1, Vanessa took to Instagram to want her late daughter a cheerful birthday.
“Glad 14th Birthday to my candy child woman, Gianna,” she captioned a photograph of the teenager smiling. “Mommy loves you greater than I can ever present you. You might be a part of MY SOUL without end. I miss you a lot on a regular basis. I want I may get up and have you ever right here with me. I miss your smile, your hugs and your giggles. I miss EVERYTHING about YOU, Gigi. I LOVE YOU a lot!!!!!!!”
Days later, on her personal birthday, the 38-year-old shared a brand new letter written by her husband of virtually 19 years that he’d by no means had the possibility to present to her.
“Yesterday I discovered an envelope labeled To: The Love of my Life. From, Tu Papi,” Vanessa captioned a photograph of an envelope on Instagram on Could 5. “I waited to open another letter on my birthday. It gave me one thing to sit up for right now. Lacking the Love of my Life and my candy little Mamacita- my fellow Taurus. Grateful to get up to my Three candy women right now. Want we had been all collectively.”
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