Dorrough Children Care Fund
On Monday, August 2nd, I got the message I’d been dreading for the better part of two months. Kenneth Dorrough, father of my three nephews, had lost his long battle with Covid-19. I was heartbroken, but more so, my twin sister, Kathryn Dorrough, was absolutely destroyed as she had to break the news to her boys. My sister and my mother were shouldering the financial burden of caring for the boys during his long hospitalization, all while my sister dealt with her own struggles with long-haul Covid-19.
This fund is to directly go towards care for the boys, repayment of medical bills, and their furthered education.
Not only did the boys lose their father, but KJ, his oldest son (18) was also hospitalized for part of that time from Covid Pneumonia as an uninsured patient. Ultimately, all 3 boys tested positive for Covid-19 and have fully recovered. The amount that this virus has devastated my family cannot be overstated.
If you can help these boys in any way and feel compelled to donate, please do it with full knowledge that the beneficiaries will be his boys and their mother. I thank you so so very much for any and all help of any kind.
I’ll leave the rest up to my sister, copied from her statement on Facebook:
“I met Kenny just a few months after my 21st birthday. He was 31. He was the funniest man I’ve ever known. He was gorgeous, charming, romantic, and always the liveliest person in any room he entered. He swept me off my feet. We were engaged 6 months later and then married a year after that. We had 14 years together (12 years married). Ultimately he was a part of my life, my family, the father of our 3 boys, friends and co-parents for 21 years. Our marriage ended 7 years ago but he has never stopped being my family. I loved him and I still do.
Kenny loved Van Halen and Tae Kwon Do, earning a second degree black belt and making it to the Olympic trials in 1988, just missing team placement. He played guitar in a high school band called Suite 16 that won a south Florida battle of the bands contest. He loved the Florida Panthers, Miami Hurricanes, and the Miami Dolphins. He was a wonderful father to our 3 incredible boys, and a fiercely loyal friend to everyone he knew. When he laughed it was contagious; head thrown back and tickled, his pillsbury dough boy laugh.
We will miss him everyday. I will miss him everyday. He is with his mother, Gail, who passed away last November and his father, Ralph, who died when Kenny was 16.”