Assist Patricia Medina's Family with Funeral Costs

PRAYERS FOR OUR FAMILY

We're heartbroken. We went from planning a reunion to planning a funeral.

Miss you so much, sister.

I can't believe all of this. I haven't been able to sleep since I've heard the news. I just keep thinking how you could have come to Iowa and mom, myself & my kids could have shown you so much love and a new life. I just wish I could cook one more meal for you, we could have one more laugh together or do our silly songs & dances.

Gone too soon, my sweet baby sister.

Patricia Leanna Medina June 22, 1985 ~ June 22, 2024

Now you're with Grandma, Grandpa, & your husband praying for all of us that lost you too soon. (Annette Medina- Sister)

It breaks my heart to have to write this post, after months of trying to locate my sister we got the call that no one wants to receive. LAPD found her body in Santa Monica and she is no longer with us. After a long struggle with substance abuse and mental health issues I guess God wanted her home. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way!! She was supposed to be in Iowa with my mom Cheryl A Scaffidi and sister Annette Medina but due to the negligence of the police, they ignored our pleas and the missing person report was gone unnoticed when they did find her. She was just another person experiencing homelessness to them. I wish so bad that I had a day with her to let her know that things are going to be ok and she still has a chance to get her life together but that day will NEVER come now. My baby sister is GONE!! I love you Patricia and I am heartbroken to know that we will never see your smile or hear you laugh again. You were so lost out here in this world and we tried so hard to find you and bring you home. I’m sorry if we failed you. You’re no longer suffering on the streets with people who didn’t care about you. I wish we had more answers to all these questions like who the heck you were with that just left your lifeless body on the streets like trash! We all love you so much and I wish so bad this wasn’t the end of your story. RIP my baby sister Patricia Leanne Medina gone too soon! 6/22/1985-6/22/2024

(Teresa Medina- Sister)

This is with such brokenness for me to forward this post(s) from my daughters. My sweet baby girl has passed to the Lord. Our hearts and minds are numb trying to make sense of it all. RIP

My baby girl is gone that doesn’t sound real in saying. I'm numb in disbelief. She was supposed to be here in Iowa for a better improved life with mom, her sister Annette Medina, nieces and nephews. From all the screwup releases from the prison/jail since last December she was on her own in the streets. I wish this on no one. I missed my girl so much, me and my two older girls tried so hard to locate her and bring her home to us. Now she is at home with God at peace but, too early for her tiny being to be gone. You have always been in my heart my sweet Patricia.

Patricia Leanne Medina

6/22/1985-6/22/2024

Passed on 39th birthday

(Cheryl Scaffidi-Mom)

This could have been avoided if the people who were supposed to protect and serve us cared more about the people they were rehabilitating, did their job correctly, this life could have been saved. If the LAPD would have released her to her mother when she went to go pick her up, but instead wanted to release her back to the streets at 2:20am to nobody, with no game plan to make sure that she was safe or even had a place to go. Now we have to bury our sister/daughter. So if you can donate to a life that was cut short way too soon. The family would greatly appreciate anything you could give to cover funeral cost. Thank you so much for taking the time out to read this, and I’m praying that God blesses anyone who is willing to give to the cause. The family needs to have her body moved from California to New Mexico. Thank You.