Help Greg shelter family after devastating fire

Help us rebuild after this devastating loss.  Insurance will cover little and this family is displaced and has lost everything.  When Greg went to sleep in Miami on the 14th of July he called his wife in Naples, FL to say goodnight and prepared to wake up at 4am to go meet a sub on at his company’s construction site.  

Greg got a frantic call after 11 PM in Miami.  Collier County Sherriff and Fire Department told him to rush back.  His house in Naples was on fire.  Greg is forever grateful for the next words he heard: his family was safe. Greg, delayed by an accident on 595, arrived at 2:30am to learn what had happened to the home he owned for 27 years. 

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Greg’s mother, Gretchen, put a load of laundry in to dry before going to bed.  His wife and mother smelled something burning.  After seeing smoke, Gretchen ran to a neighbor to call 911 as his wife, Kerry-Anne, tried to put the fire out herself with a garden house.  Kerry-Anne was taken to Naples Community Hospital and a police officer stayed with Greg’s distraught mother until he could arrive to pick her up from the curb of their destroyed home.  Sadly, the Fire Department could not save much and the house is a total loss, as are all of their clothes and memories.  At 3:30am Greg finally checked his mother into a hotel and went to see his wife and discuss how to rebuild their lives.  

Greg purchased this home 27 years ago for his parents, Gretchen and Gary.  Upon his father’s death six years ago, Greg moved into the home with his wife Kerry-Anne to take care of his mother.  This is not their first battle, Kerry-Anne fought Spinal Bifida and was unable to move.  After many painful expensive surgeries, Kerry-Anne finally had a successful surgery which gave her more mobility a year and a half ago.  

The sub-contractors on the site have known Greg for years and worked with him on a prior job in Fort Myers. They know Greg never misses work so he has had to share this heartbreaking story many times.  We will share it for him.  Greg was born in Flint, Michigan. His grandparents both worked at the shop for Buick until they could save to buy a little bar of their own. Greg’s dad worked in the bar after his grandfather died at 54. It was a tough life with a “tough love” ex-boxer father so Greg, an only child, left home at 15 to move to Pine Island, FL.  Young Greg had started a tree business and worked construction as a framing contractor and built his own success. Greg’s parents decided to move to Florida to be with their son and build a life here.  Greg worked with construction - eventually joining Craft Construction on his mother’s birthday in the fall of 2020 and is on his second job with the company.  

This fundraiser was created by his coworkers to help Greg and his family get back on their feet and pay for shelter and clothes. 

Greg is fighting again and his goal is to rebuild.  After paying off the loan on the home, he hopes to build a double wide modular home where Greg, Kerry-Anne, and his mother Gretchen, 76.  Please help however you can.  Thank you.