Help Honor Christopher N. Boyum's Memory and his family.

Hi,

My name is Britney. On Saturday February 8th 2025 my father Christopher N. Boyum was found deceased in the home we share. He had been having pain in his arm and chest in the days proceeding but had terrible anxiety regarding doctors/hospitals. He saw a chiropractor and made plans to have a vertebrae in his neck addressed, thinking nerve damage was the source of his pain. Two days later he passed. The Medical Examiner thinks he had a heart attack due to his history of smoking and the recent chest pain but the county refused an autopsy due to his age. My fiancee and I are doing our best to make arrangements but our work is mostly seasonal and things are very slow right now so finances are tough. I am trying to do my best to give him the send off he deserves. He is a veteran so he will have a plot in the wall at Fort Snelling but the VA covers none of his cremation or other services through Gill Brother's which is $4092. Fort Snelling is about 1-2 months out which is why there is no date listed, I am still working with Gill brother's to secure a date and will update when I do. He didn't have a will so all of his assets are frozen and I have no way to access anything until probate is done. I got a couple quotes from various lawyers about basic probate services and was quoted $2000 plus all form filing fees. Having his accounts frozen is making it really tough for us to keep up the bills without his partial contribution and we are drowning. I hate to ask for anything but I really want to be able to keep the house to provide stability for my ten year old who lives with me and adores our neighborhood, friends, and school. Anything and everything helps at this point. I feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders and trying to grieve the loss of someone so dear to me is unbearable. His dream was for us (with my construction experience) to fix the house up and make it a home, I just want to make his dream come true, even if it's after his death. If you can find it in your heart to help it would mean everything to me and my family.

UPDATE- 3/20 Fort Snelling denied my application so the plan is to open his mother's plot at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis near Lake Calhoun and have him placed there. Obviously the cost to do this is going to be significantly more than we originally thought so any help is amazing.