fundraiser for my mom funeral expenses
On Sunday August 12, 2012, my mother, Irma Calderon, lost
her battle with an advanced form of ALS (Lou Gherig's disease). If you are familiar with the disease, you
know what a horrific, debilitating disease this is for the individual, as well as
the individual's family and friends. We
tried to prepare financially for her eventual passing after having learned her
diagnosis in April; however, we had not planned for the disease to take her
away from us so quickly, and instead spent our time with her these past few months
making her as comfortable as possible. This has been a particularly hard few
years for the family, having lost Irma's youngest son my brother Jose in 2007 to drowning,
and Irma's mom our grandmother in March of this year, just a month before Irma's
diagnosis. At this time, the family
cannot afford to pay for my mother's funeral service.
I am asking for any help you are able to give in order to help
us provide my mother a proper memorial service, I am currently out of work and
cannot do this on my own. She was a
wonderful, caring, hard working person.
She was a mother, grandmother, friend and the glue that kept our family together. My hope is that I can give her the funeral
that exemplifies all that she was to me and the rest of our family.