Help Bereaved Veteran's Family Save Their Home
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(Organized by Alex's family, daughter Klara Alexandra "Lexi" and wife Jeannie.)
A lifetime of service
On February 21st, 2021, we lost our dad, the glue holding our family together. Due to the coronavirus, we couldn't even be with him during the last months of his life.
We are lost. We're a ship without a captain. Dad was a wonderful patriarch in the true sense of the word: smart and warm, wise and caring.
If you or someone you love has been helped by paramedics, somewhere, along that line, you can thank my dad.
A Korean Conflict Army Medical Corps veteran, Dad dedicated his life to helping others. When he returned from overseas he helped create EMS here in the US, co-authoring PHTLS - Pre hospital trauma life support. Because Dad refused to make emergency medical care something that wrung every cent out of people who needed help, PHTLS wasn't a money maker - and that's exactly how dad wanted it - he refused to profit while people were dying. After being one of the few in the medical field to take care of and tend to AIDS patients in the region during the AIDS crisis, he continued a life of advocacy for patients, especially his fellow marginalized people, and taught emergency medicine (and was never treated or paid properly for doing so,) until a near fatal car accident in 2013.
At this time, as dad was hospitalized for five months, the condo board operating where my parents lived started their efforts to throw my parents out of their home. With the exception of a pair of families who have since moved away and were dearly beloved by us, these people have never been neighborly, and use every down moment to further abuse my family. The hospital he worked for at the time of the wreck, who'd skirted responsibility to my father by keeping him employed through a third party agency despire numerous promises (that were never kept,) to make him a full employee with all of the attached benefits, let my father go with no severance even after he returned to work for them after the accident, because he needed accomdation for disabilities acquired in the accident (that happened on the way to teach for them,) yet another injustice done to my dad that the neighbors sought to exploit. In 2018, they drove my parents into bankruptcy. The payments are over $2,000 monthly and that doesn't include all household bills - there's no opportunity to save to pay them off because we are scrambling to make those payments and yet they always demand more and more, knowing full well what they're doing.
Thanks to exploitative legal fees on their end, they keep raising the amount, and paying them off in full, with your help, is our only option to get out from underneath their cruelty.
The entire case, from its filing, they have been combative and underhanded and sought to throw my family out of their home. Upon my father's death, they took the opportunity of our grief to file a motion asking for a relief from stay to compound on our grief by taking the house that dad loved so much. No matter how many payments are made on time, or how much money they're given, they will never be satisfied until they have taken what little the family has left. We have not even been able to properly grieve as we attempt to stay ahead of their efforts. We haven't even been able to consider a memorial service, not just because of covid, but because of the costs involved. After all my father has done for the world, his family can't even grieve him properly, or being to think about paying for a memorial for an incredible life.
The amount due to them, to pay them off in total, is just about $20,000, but at the very least we need to raise $1600 by June first to prevent further immediate action that will result in foreclosure. We went as long as we could without asking for help with the full amount, but their efforts are becoming too much to bear. We are buckling under this.
Please, if you've ever loved my father, if you ever learned from my father, if you were ever touched by his grace and forever giving spirit; if you've ever been tended to by the very systems of EMS that my father was instrumental in building, if you've ever benefitted from the incredible work of this incredible man, please helps us right the injustices he faced and our family continues to battle. Please help us save the home he loved so much, and finally give us the space to not just grieve but even breathe.
Thank you, I love you all.
A lifetime of service
On February 21st, 2021, we lost our dad, the glue holding our family together. Due to the coronavirus, we couldn't even be with him during the last months of his life.
We are lost. We're a ship without a captain. Dad was a wonderful patriarch in the true sense of the word: smart and warm, wise and caring.
If you or someone you love has been helped by paramedics, somewhere, along that line, you can thank my dad.
A Korean Conflict Army Medical Corps veteran, Dad dedicated his life to helping others. When he returned from overseas he helped create EMS here in the US, co-authoring PHTLS - Pre hospital trauma life support. Because Dad refused to make emergency medical care something that wrung every cent out of people who needed help, PHTLS wasn't a money maker - and that's exactly how dad wanted it - he refused to profit while people were dying. After being one of the few in the medical field to take care of and tend to AIDS patients in the region during the AIDS crisis, he continued a life of advocacy for patients, especially his fellow marginalized people, and taught emergency medicine (and was never treated or paid properly for doing so,) until a near fatal car accident in 2013.
At this time, as dad was hospitalized for five months, the condo board operating where my parents lived started their efforts to throw my parents out of their home. With the exception of a pair of families who have since moved away and were dearly beloved by us, these people have never been neighborly, and use every down moment to further abuse my family. The hospital he worked for at the time of the wreck, who'd skirted responsibility to my father by keeping him employed through a third party agency despire numerous promises (that were never kept,) to make him a full employee with all of the attached benefits, let my father go with no severance even after he returned to work for them after the accident, because he needed accomdation for disabilities acquired in the accident (that happened on the way to teach for them,) yet another injustice done to my dad that the neighbors sought to exploit. In 2018, they drove my parents into bankruptcy. The payments are over $2,000 monthly and that doesn't include all household bills - there's no opportunity to save to pay them off because we are scrambling to make those payments and yet they always demand more and more, knowing full well what they're doing.
Thanks to exploitative legal fees on their end, they keep raising the amount, and paying them off in full, with your help, is our only option to get out from underneath their cruelty.
The entire case, from its filing, they have been combative and underhanded and sought to throw my family out of their home. Upon my father's death, they took the opportunity of our grief to file a motion asking for a relief from stay to compound on our grief by taking the house that dad loved so much. No matter how many payments are made on time, or how much money they're given, they will never be satisfied until they have taken what little the family has left. We have not even been able to properly grieve as we attempt to stay ahead of their efforts. We haven't even been able to consider a memorial service, not just because of covid, but because of the costs involved. After all my father has done for the world, his family can't even grieve him properly, or being to think about paying for a memorial for an incredible life.
The amount due to them, to pay them off in total, is just about $20,000, but at the very least we need to raise $1600 by June first to prevent further immediate action that will result in foreclosure. We went as long as we could without asking for help with the full amount, but their efforts are becoming too much to bear. We are buckling under this.
Please, if you've ever loved my father, if you ever learned from my father, if you were ever touched by his grace and forever giving spirit; if you've ever been tended to by the very systems of EMS that my father was instrumental in building, if you've ever benefitted from the incredible work of this incredible man, please helps us right the injustices he faced and our family continues to battle. Please help us save the home he loved so much, and finally give us the space to not just grieve but even breathe.
Thank you, I love you all.
Organizer
Klara Butman
Organizer
Akron, OH