
Help me pay for my moms' final expenses
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My name is Heather, and I am trying to raise the funds for my mother's funeral. She was born in September of 1958 and had me when she was just 21. She raised me as a single mother in the '80s, and for a very long time, it was just us. I was 7 when everything changed. A drunk driver hit her when she was on her way to pick me up from the babysitter's house. Things were never the same. Even after she was finally able to come home months later, there were many things that she was unable to do anymore. So, at the age of 7, I became a part-time caregiver for my mom.
I never stopped being a caregiver for my mom and even though we fought about things, she never stopped being a caregiver for me, either. Even when increasing problems with her own health led to her going to a skilled nursing facility for what was supposed to be physical rehabilitation this past year. But Mom never got to come home again. She caught pneumonia twice before the end of last year and caught it again at the beginning of this month. Mom left me on Sunday, May 25 of this year, after being hospitalized for nearly three weeks. I was her fiercest advocate during that time, and didnt stop fighting for her.
Her income after the accident wouldn't have supported the extra expense of a life insurance policy.
So I am asking for some help, because I want her to have the funeral she deserved, and cremated afterwards. She and I only talked about things like this but never did she signal a preference for a lot of things, but I want to give her something that I know that she would be happy with. It is the very least that I owe her.
The funds would be used for (this is all per the funeral homes' general price list): the viewing (which may or may not occur at the discretion of the funeral director...still waiting on that), the memorial service, cremation, the casket (or other wooden/cardboard container for the cremation itself), acknowledgement cards, register book, memorial folders, death certificate (and copies), the obituary notice, clergy, dressing/cosmetics/hair care and casketing for the viewing, services of funeral director/staff, embalming, urn...
Her ashes will be coming home, and I will worry about getting a plot at some other time.

Co-organizers (2)

Heather McGinnis
Organizer
New Carlisle, IN
Heather Strozier
Co-organizer