Final Expense Fund For Logan Hampton

** Due to the tremendous generosity of some anonymous individuals, the funeral bill has been reduced to $2,150 outside of the funds reflected here. As such, we are amending our goal to $4,000. **

Logan Hampton of Sun Fish, Edmonson County, Kentucky, passed away on May 26, 2019 from complications with cancer. Her visitation will be May 29 and 30, 2019, and her funeral will be held at Gravil Funeral Home in Brownsville on May 31, 2019 at 10 am.Logan was in the care of her beloved cousin, Tiffany Hampton. The funeral cost is $7,000, and a headstone and flowers will be approximately $2,000 more. (At this time, the plan is for Logan to be cremated, but if we can raise enough money for a headstone, it would be nice for them to be able to purchase one to place somewhere special.). This is money that her temporary custodian simply does not have. The organizer of the event is Ashlea Shepherd Porter. She served as one of Logan’s Guardian ad Litems in her family court proceedings. Below is the tribute she wrote to Logan: I haven’t known how to articulate what I needed to say, and I’m sure that my words will fail to adequately express it now, so I will use the words that Tiffany did when she text me yesterday afternoon:Logan has left us.It was such a simple phrase, but it so wholly captured the action as a point on a timeline, and not as something resembling finality... and I think that nothing better could describe what occurred yesterday.Logan never allowed things to happen “to her”... She took every circumstance and saw it as a way to create change... to make something else happen to overcome the hurdle. I met Logan two days after her 11th birthday... and the first interaction makes me smile even through my tears now. I was driving back from a hearing in Ohio County when my phone rang. The day prior, I had been appointed to represent Logan In a custody case. Typically, I would make contact with the adult caregiver to set up a time to meet with kids, but Logan had her own plans... her own timeline...It was after 5, and so I let the call go to voicemail. A voicemail dinged, but my phone immediately rang from the same number again. I decided to check the message to see if it was a call that could wait until the next day:“This is Logan. I need to meet with you. I need you to call me back.”I could tell that it was the voice of a child, but I was so confused... did this little girl just call me to schedule an appointment?! I kinda let out a chuckle. I liked her. She had moxie... I called her back immediately, and was met with questions, “Why didn’t you answer when I called? When can you see me?” I offered her a time the next day, and she confirmed that it “would work” for her. I couldn’t wait to lay eyes on my new little spitfire of a client. She did not disappoint.She told me her entire history.... She gave me direction on exactly what she wanted- what she needed- and what she, for lack of a better way to phrase it- demanded.At 11, Logan had already spent most of her childhood being the adult in the room, and she had developed a savvy self-advocacy that to this day I have not seen repeated. She was fiercely determined, and from that day would call frequently to ensure that I was doing what I was supposed to do for her.The next message I remember in such detail that I can hear it, in her voice, as I’m typing it was this, “This is Logan. I want to live with Tiffany forever. Okay, bye.” And she did.But, after all of that part was over, I looked back on the situation, and it finally hit me: Everything Logan demanded- every action- every single thing that I thought “she” wanted... wasn’t for her...It was for her brother.She was protecting him.She wanted her brother to be safe.She wanted her brother to be happy.Logan’s advocacy was selfless.... she was a protector, not someone asking for protection for herself. **She was fierce. She was brave. She made things happen.**When I found out in 2017 that Logan had, not only been diagnosed with cancer, but I had undergone a leg amputation, I knew I needed to see her immediately. The day after I found out, I went to her house. She was very weak and tired, and so I left a stuffed animal for her, and told her that I would be back soon.She remembered what I had said, and she held me to it... she started sending me messages asking, “Are you coming today?” “Are you on your way?” “U coming?” And when she would message... I knew I better go.At the end of November 2017, I asked Logan what she wanted for Christmas... I don’t know why I would have expected her to say, “IPad” “cell phone” or “television”.... that wasn’t how she rolled. She looked at me and told me exactly what she wanted... no... exactly what she and her family needed, because that’s who Logan is...A new house.I was shocked, to say the least. A new house?! I didn’t want to disappoint her, but I also knew that what she had asked for was something I couldn’t deliver... I made her no promises, except that I would “try.”So, I returned to my office pretty despondent... I looked at my partner, Brian, and told him what Logan had asked for... He never flinched.... he just said, simply, “Let’s make it happen.”You see, “I” would have failed her... and that’s one of the lessons I think I will take away from Logan the most... Logan’s will is almost magical. She knew how to make things happen for her brother and for herself, and she wasn’t afraid to ask others to help make it happen. And so, that’s what we did.... WE.... ALL of us... ALL of you who are reading this.We didn’t fail her.... and by not failing Logan, to her I knew it meant that she didn’t fail her family, her brother.The new house couldn’t happen before Christmas, and so everyone in the community banded together for Logan, her brother, and the other children in the home. There were so many gifts that it took two full car loads to deliver them all!And the money you all sent.... so much money... so much giving and love for this little girl you didn’t know... and for circumstances you didn’t know.And by July of 2018, Logan had her Christmas wish.... she had her wish because she was not afraid to ask for it; she had not been afraid to advocate for what her family needed...and because you all didn’t let her down. When her cancer came back again this Spring, you all, again, stepped up to make sure that her family had what they needed, financially, so that she could be cared for by her beloved Tiffany.... the young cousin who had taken Logan and her brother in when they needed someone the most.... the woman who became Logan’s “momma”... the woman she wanted to live with “forever.”You all made sure that Logan got to be with the people she loved.... that in the face of such adversity that she endured her entire life, that she was safe and secure. That Logan could finally be at peace knowing that her brother was safe and cared for.... That they had a “momma” to take care of them.I watched Logan go from an eleven year old adult, back into a semblance of childhood, even as she fought the cancer... learned to walk on a prosthetic leg... and returned to school... She made silly selfies, and she talked about Sponge Bob. And what’s more, Logan smiled. During what would be the most horrific part of anyone else’s life, Tiffany’s love, and your kindness and generosity, I think, made the past two years the happiest for Logan. Yesterday, Logan left us....And that phrase is most fitting.Logan made things happen... she never let things happen to her.I will never be able to reconcile why she had to walk through so many horrific circumstances during her almost 14 years.... I will never be able to reconcile why she will not be with her brother and her momma any longer... But, I will honor her always by saying that Logan left us, because I know that she must have known something the rest of us will never be able to see.... She was fierce.She was brave.She made things happen.