Help Our Family During Hard & Unfortunate Times

I’ve created this fundraiser to help my family cover funeral costs for our mother, she was also a grandmother, friend to many, wife to our dad for just short of 40 years. She passed way peacefully, the morning of September 6, 2026.

My sister has had an incredibly hard last few years, taking care of my mother and father, while struggling as a single mother herself. Our mom was deemed terminally ill 2 years ago, multi organ failure, multiple heart attacks, and a brain tumor. She fought hard, for a long time. They told her over 2 years ago that she only had 6 months to a year left. Ultimately, her COPD caused her lungs to fail but not without proving the doctors wrong a few times first.

Additionally, our dad has cancer that has spread. He didn’t think was a big deal, and wouldn’t get treated for the past 12 years, he’s not doing so well anymore either. He also has severe COPD. What started as a basal cell carcinoma, has spread to surrounding areas, and become very complicated to treat.

My sister did most of the work helping with my mom and dad over the last few years. I moved all the way from Arizona(to MO) to be closer to help my sick family members, but I’m still an hour and a half away. We would like to raise enough to move my father, sister and nephews outside of the city, and closer to my small family, so that I can be right here to help them.

It’s been a very rough period for our family. My sister’s only vehicle recently broke down just 2 weeks ago, and her main income was coming from DoorDash, as well as a caregiver for our mother(unfortunately, my sister loses that caregiver income for the family, from here on out) They're behind on rent, and struggling to afford living in a big City any longer, on top of everything else. That will be a tougher issue after losing our mother, which is another reason we are fundraising to also get them to a more affordable town, where we can all be close together. To help each other take care of our sick father, and to be able to help my sister raise my nephews. She is a single mom and has struggled with all of this for so long, carrying most of that weight, on top of our sick parents.

Your support would mean so much to us as we navigate our grief and loss, and donating whatever you can, or sharing the fundraiser could really help a family that has already been through far too much. It would be appreciated more than words could explain.