Two months ago, we lost the life of Maria Leticia Benjamin Gonzalez. Many knew her as a mother, friend, wife, or sibling. She fought strong every day to continue having hope and to fight for a chance to be able to continue raising her son. Life occurred and took the most beautiful soul in all of our lives. She never thought twice about throwing a helping hand for anybody, even strangers, as no one was a nobody to her but rather a friend to be made. Even in her deathbed, she built enough strength up just to smile and look cheerful just so we would not be upset.

This GoFundMe is intended to help finish what she started but was not able to stick around longer to see it happen. The funds will help towards some of the funeral expenses and whatever is left will be put into a high-yield savings account that will build interest over time to be able to help towards the purchase of a house in the far future. My mother always wanted to have a house and be able to decorate it how she wanted. I plan on carrying on her wish as her only flesh and blood that she brought into this world. I truly miss my mother every single day that I wake up for work and do not get to hear her voice nagging at me about not waking up at the time I said I would. Everybody would always tell her that she was blessed to have a child that got straight A's in school or was a hard worker, but the reality is that I was truly the blessed one to be born to such a woman as her.