Laid Regina To Rest Fund

Beloved mother and wife Regina Gentry passed away April 5th, 2018 after putting up an admirable fight against cancer. Her health problems started early in life and she died at the age of 63 years young. Last diagnosis was cancer in the cerebral spinal fluid or menegies. This is the fluid that surrounds and protects your brain and spinal cord. This is a rare sort of cancer that has only ever been diagnosed in 5% of all cancer patients. They currently have no treatment for this type of cancer. I guess they havent had time or opportunity to do the research to come up with something to treat or prolong this type of cancer. We were told that this cancer takes over quick that even the healthiest person would be gone in 4-6 weeks. We were crushed. When the doctor asked what we wanted to do we told him"Take her home!" He said "r u sure? It won't be easy" we knew but it didnt matter cuz we knew what she wanted and that's what we were gonna do, that's what we did do. She wants to be creamated and,just as we have so far, we are gonna do things the way she wanted them done. We had thought about seeing if maybe her brain and spine could be taken out for science. To help so that maybe the next family can maybe know more or know Sooner anyway. So that maybe they can come up with a treatment so that another family can have more time and quality of life with their loved ones. Even if they got nothing but more information better information wouldn't it be worth it? I think so I think she would be proud to have done something like that. That she did not die in vain, that all her pain helped to prevent or lessen someone else's. She was always a kind, giving person. Loving kids and animals most of all. One of her life goals was to see her grandchildren but both of us kids were older when we had kids. Her son was 36 when he had his daughter and me, her daughter, I was 29 years old when I had my daughter. She loved everyone it seemed unconditionally family or not. She was a kind, giving, compassionate, beautiful woman. She would stick her neck out for anyone just out of kindness. I remember one time she had a lady ask her if she could help her and spare her some money for bus fare. Of course my beautiful mother, even living on a social security disability check and having not but a few dollars left if that after bills were paid said of course. When she went to get into her wallet to get the woman some money the woman grabbed her whole wallet and took off running. My mother tried to catch her but with her asthma and other health problems she wasn't able to catch her. She called me crying on the spot telling me she was sorry that she had lost oictures of my daughter that were in it. I told her it's ok we can replace them. I told her to call tbe police and report it and maybe she could get it back if they caught her. She agreed and we hung up. Shortly after that she decided that since the rest of her money had gotten stolen that she would start to walk home and get cans from the trash cans on her way to get some money for things she needed like soaps for the house and things like that. So she started on her way sobbing the whole time. She went down and turned went and turned again and right on top of the 3rd trash can sat her wallet. Of course the money was gone but she had her wallet and that's all that mattered. She told me she seen the woman who had robbed her at one of the places that serve meals for the homeless or people who had no food. She told the lady "if u wouldve asked I would've given it to u! I hold no grudges but I want u to know what that wallet had inside was more to me than that money. I found it thank u but what if I wouldn't of I would've been crushed that wallet had pictures of my grandchildren, my id, medical cards, all of that. Plz think next time before u do something stupid or out of desperation cuz the next person may not be like me" she said that lady cried as she was I guess embarrassed in front of all her friends but she never seen her at any of those kitchens again. She loved to go to places like that just to talk she said just to hear ppls stories to hear whatever it was they had to say. She said everyone has a story never judge a book by it's cover. Never judge someone cuz you yourself are not perfect. Her kindness and generosity are things I always admired. Even with as little as she had she would give her last penny to someone who needed it. She was a great mother and my best friend. She would call me on the phone and EVERYTIME we would go to hang up she would say "I love u and I want u to know I am proud of
u". I used to kinda blush and ask her "proud of me for what?" I never graduated high school, I never finished any college, I don't have a high end, high paying job so why? She would tell me"for just being you. You are beautiful and you will ALWAYS be my baby" I think back to when I was a kid. She used to ask me"who gave u to me to love?" I would answer"God". She would say "thats right God gave u to me to love me and I do love you with all my heart" and she would hug and love me. She always worried about what everyone else had or didn't have never about what she nedddsor didn't have. As long as she could help someone near her that was enough. She would get clothes from garage sales or resale shops for kids that she knew had a single parent and not a lot of money. She would get shoes, coats, hats, toys, and all sorts of things for anyone she knew needed them. Even if it meant she had to hold onto them for months before she saw that person again she would keep it and when she seen them she would tell them wait I got something for u!
My father has lost the love of his life after being with her for 37 years. He doesn't know how to feel. He is worried. We don't know how to go about any of the funeral planning etc. We don't have the money to cover any of it. We struggle with day to day bills let alone come up with a lump sum like that. So for that reason we ask for ur help.. if we are able to donate the parts we would like that might make the arrangements slightly cheaper but as I said no gaurantee cuz we aren't even sure where to start.