Help Us Give Stacy Ann Berrett Peace and Dignity in Her Final Days

Hi, we’re Kimberly Goodman and Paula Hundley, the daughter and sister of Stacy Ann Berrett, who is currently in the hospital on hospice care after a long and painful battle with multiple serious health conditions.

Stacy’s condition has deteriorated rapidly. Doctors believe she is no longer stable enough to be transferred to hospice outside the hospital. She coded just last week and was resuscitated, but her body is tired, and her time is short.

We are asking for help to cover her end-of-life expenses, as Stacy does not have life insurance or financial support in place. Our goal is to make sure she is laid to rest with peace, dignity, and love.

Funds will go toward:

• Cremation and final arrangements

• A simple, beautiful urn

• Immediate support for her children and loved ones

• Any unexpected medical or post-mortem costs

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Who Stacy Was

Stacy’s life was not easy. For many years, she lived on the streets, navigating the world with untreated mental health issues, addiction, and the kind of survival instincts you only develop when life constantly pushes you to the edge. She was poor, she was rough around the edges, and she was often misunderstood — and because of that, she was routinely failed by the very systems meant to help.

But she was never weak.

Stacy was fiercely independent, wild, and unapologetically herself. She didn’t conform, and she didn’t shrink herself to make others comfortable. She had to be tough to survive. And behind all that toughness was a woman who had suffered great losses — her father, her mother (our mom), safety, stability — and kept going.

She was a mother of four, a wife at one point, and always, always a fighter. She was the kind of person who did life on her terms, no matter how messy it got.

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A Failing System

Kimberly, her daughter, has fought every step of the way to advocate for her mother — battling hospitals, case workers, and indifferent systems that often refused to see Stacy as a person worth saving.

There were times Stacy was let walk out of a hospital with IVs still in her arms and critical health conditions untreated — simply because she was “difficult.” Because she was poor. Because she had mental health issues. Because she didn’t trust authority. She wasn’t easy — but she was human.

And no one deserves to be discarded like that.

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Why We’re Asking

We’re not asking for extravagance. We’re asking for dignity. For peace. For closure. For the chance to give Stacy a respectful farewell, after all she endured. And to lift even a little of the weight off Kimberly’s shoulders as she faces this loss after years of caregiving and emotional battle.

If you can give — no matter how small — it will go directly to final arrangements and family support. If you can’t, please share this message or hold us in your thoughts.

Thank you for seeing Stacy. And thank you for helping us honor her with love.

With gratitude,

Kimberly Goodman (Daughter)

Paula Hundley (Sister)