Eric Rose final expenses
Donation protected
On February 9th 2019 my brother and his wife along with their 11 month old baby girl decided to take a long weekend and go see family in Southern California. A few hours into their drive they realized that their new vehicle wasn’t good at high speeds and weren’t comfortable with the road conditions so they turned around. My brother tried to find a smaller road that wouldn’t be as demanding and ended up on a dirt road leading to Silver City Idaho. The truck got stuck in the snow. The snow was getting worse.
They had a bag of suckers, formula and diapers for the baby and some animal crackers from her diaper bag a couple changes of clothes and a very big wool blanket that my mother had given them as a Christmas gift. After three days the gas tank to heat their car was almost empty, there had been a break in the weather, the sky was bright blue. They were hungry, dehydrated and very scared. My brother told his wife to stay in the truck and that he was going to use the sunlight to walk to the point where they turned off and see if he could find a cellphone signal or find help. He never returned.
His wife Francesca Rose found a cabin about 18 hours later. The only one for miles along the road. she strapped the baby to her and tucked her into her sweater, unburied a ladder from the snow propped up on a wall and broke a window to get in the cabin. She taught herself to light a fire. Melted snow for formula, ate MRE’s and other emergency provisions that were located inside and she waited, and kept waiting.
After three days she felt that she should at the very least spend the daylight hours in the truck to improve her chances of being found and hiked back on Friday the 15th. A worker from the mine passed by on his snowmobile and brought the baby and Rose into Jordan Valley.
We searched, snowmobiles were brought in. Dogs with Idaho Search and Rescue. An entire community of ranchers and miners and people from the area looked and prayed and hoped for any sign of him. and February 19th the search was suspended and the official statement was that this had become a recovery operation to resume as weather allows.
He leaves behind a mother, father, three sisters, three children including his baby girl that survived and the love of his life in his beautiful, brave wife.
My brother was found on March 14th. A miner traveling down the road came across animal tracks that led to Eric's body being found under a tree. It will be a few weeks before we will be able to lay him to rest. We have chosen Canyon Hill Cemetery and Dakan Funeral Chapel to assist us.
All funds raised will be directed towards funeral expenses for Eric. As a family we want to say thank you and how much we appreciate our friends, family and community during this time and are so very blessed at the outpouring of support and empathy that has been shown to us.
They had a bag of suckers, formula and diapers for the baby and some animal crackers from her diaper bag a couple changes of clothes and a very big wool blanket that my mother had given them as a Christmas gift. After three days the gas tank to heat their car was almost empty, there had been a break in the weather, the sky was bright blue. They were hungry, dehydrated and very scared. My brother told his wife to stay in the truck and that he was going to use the sunlight to walk to the point where they turned off and see if he could find a cellphone signal or find help. He never returned.
His wife Francesca Rose found a cabin about 18 hours later. The only one for miles along the road. she strapped the baby to her and tucked her into her sweater, unburied a ladder from the snow propped up on a wall and broke a window to get in the cabin. She taught herself to light a fire. Melted snow for formula, ate MRE’s and other emergency provisions that were located inside and she waited, and kept waiting.
After three days she felt that she should at the very least spend the daylight hours in the truck to improve her chances of being found and hiked back on Friday the 15th. A worker from the mine passed by on his snowmobile and brought the baby and Rose into Jordan Valley.
We searched, snowmobiles were brought in. Dogs with Idaho Search and Rescue. An entire community of ranchers and miners and people from the area looked and prayed and hoped for any sign of him. and February 19th the search was suspended and the official statement was that this had become a recovery operation to resume as weather allows.
He leaves behind a mother, father, three sisters, three children including his baby girl that survived and the love of his life in his beautiful, brave wife.
My brother was found on March 14th. A miner traveling down the road came across animal tracks that led to Eric's body being found under a tree. It will be a few weeks before we will be able to lay him to rest. We have chosen Canyon Hill Cemetery and Dakan Funeral Chapel to assist us.
All funds raised will be directed towards funeral expenses for Eric. As a family we want to say thank you and how much we appreciate our friends, family and community during this time and are so very blessed at the outpouring of support and empathy that has been shown to us.
Organizer
Sara Ontiveros
Organizer
Caldwell, ID