Julie deKoning Memorial Fund
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Hello everyone, below is the explanation of why we originally started this GoFundMe but unfortunately now, my mother has passed, she passed on her birthday February 10th 2021 at 2:28pm, thank you for all your support and love, my mother was the most incredible woman, and now her suffering has ended and that bring us great relief, but we will forever be heartbroken and grieving for her love, her presence, and her touch.
Hello everyone, we are fundraising for my mother, Julie deKoning, she was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 colorectal cancer in 2016 and has been struggling with treatments including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgical procedures for the past 4 years. Recently our humble family begun incurring more and more troublesome and burdening expenses, and would greatly appreciate your help weathering the storm of financing my mothers treatments and care for her terminal illness. This is especially difficult on our family because we have to go through this harrowing experience during the isolation and constant fear of a global pandemic. The pandemic and Covid-19 have forced us to expend much more of our family’s funds on things like proper cleaning and sanitizing supplies, as well as Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) for our family and nursing staff coming into our home, in addition to all her treatments, medical care, and elder care equipment like wheel chairs, body lifts, safety rails, ramps, elderly/disabled patient caregiver alert systems, elder bathing equipment, physical therapy equipment, etc., and the list of necessary expenses goes on and on, also including lawyer and legal fees for end-of-life legal and financial documents and final arrangements. Any and all donations are deeply appreciated. My mother touched so many people throughout her lifetime with the meaningful work she dedicated herself to. She was the Administrator and Admissions Director at Pacific Oaks Children’s School for 40 years. Pacific Oaks was and is a school incredibly passionate and dedicated to social justice, child-centered play-based learning, and the celebration of difference and diversity, not merely the toleration of it. These are all morals, beliefs, ethos, and principles my mother embodies, and has diligently worked her entire life to advocate for. I grew up at Pacific Oaks with my mother and so did my sisters. In the early 70s my mother started working there as a cleaning lady, and with no degrees or formal training she rose to become the highest level administrator at the Pacific Oaks Children’s School. She loved that place, the people, and what it stood for, and she felt like her life had meaningful honorable purpose working for an organization that uplifted young children by giving them the social emotional and social justice tools to be conscious, critically aware, just, forward thinking, accepting, loving citizens of the world. Now more then ever, witnessing the racial, political, and economic injustices and horrors happening in our society, it has never been more apparent that the principles, beliefs, and ideologies my mother dedicated her life to, are what we need to instill not just in children, but in the global population as a whole now! We hope that her community will rally together and show her how much her life, work, efforts, and her dedication have meant to them over the years. Thank you from my mother, and from her loving and devoted family.
Hello everyone, we are fundraising for my mother, Julie deKoning, she was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 colorectal cancer in 2016 and has been struggling with treatments including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgical procedures for the past 4 years. Recently our humble family begun incurring more and more troublesome and burdening expenses, and would greatly appreciate your help weathering the storm of financing my mothers treatments and care for her terminal illness. This is especially difficult on our family because we have to go through this harrowing experience during the isolation and constant fear of a global pandemic. The pandemic and Covid-19 have forced us to expend much more of our family’s funds on things like proper cleaning and sanitizing supplies, as well as Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) for our family and nursing staff coming into our home, in addition to all her treatments, medical care, and elder care equipment like wheel chairs, body lifts, safety rails, ramps, elderly/disabled patient caregiver alert systems, elder bathing equipment, physical therapy equipment, etc., and the list of necessary expenses goes on and on, also including lawyer and legal fees for end-of-life legal and financial documents and final arrangements. Any and all donations are deeply appreciated. My mother touched so many people throughout her lifetime with the meaningful work she dedicated herself to. She was the Administrator and Admissions Director at Pacific Oaks Children’s School for 40 years. Pacific Oaks was and is a school incredibly passionate and dedicated to social justice, child-centered play-based learning, and the celebration of difference and diversity, not merely the toleration of it. These are all morals, beliefs, ethos, and principles my mother embodies, and has diligently worked her entire life to advocate for. I grew up at Pacific Oaks with my mother and so did my sisters. In the early 70s my mother started working there as a cleaning lady, and with no degrees or formal training she rose to become the highest level administrator at the Pacific Oaks Children’s School. She loved that place, the people, and what it stood for, and she felt like her life had meaningful honorable purpose working for an organization that uplifted young children by giving them the social emotional and social justice tools to be conscious, critically aware, just, forward thinking, accepting, loving citizens of the world. Now more then ever, witnessing the racial, political, and economic injustices and horrors happening in our society, it has never been more apparent that the principles, beliefs, and ideologies my mother dedicated her life to, are what we need to instill not just in children, but in the global population as a whole now! We hope that her community will rally together and show her how much her life, work, efforts, and her dedication have meant to them over the years. Thank you from my mother, and from her loving and devoted family.
Organizer
Misa Della Sheherhers
Organizer
Alhambra, CA