Seeking Community Aide to Rebuild Life After Family Death

On November 30th, Walter Putzel Jordan unexpectedly passed. Walter was a beloved father, both to Robin and Robin’s partner, Nina. He was a veteran, an advocate for mental health where he served in the public health sector as a psychologist. He was a carpenter, a builder of boats – a man of heart, skill, and trades of all.

Walter survived a stroke in 2022. Robin and Nina did not hesitate to shape their life around his care as he regained his strength and adapted to life again. In his determination, he insisted on continuing to work, even as his health declined.

Despite a clean heart scan in early November, Walter passed of a sudden cardiac arrest with Robin and Nina by his side.

Now, they’re reshaping their life again in the wake of this tragic passing.

As they cared for Walter, it was their understanding several obligations had been routinely addressed in his stead. Unfortunately, upon his death, loose ends were revealed and the couple is inundated with a wash of financial recovery that is tenfold overwhelming in their grief, especially as the holidays surrounded them.

Nina, whom Walter also did not hesitate to care for, keep safe, and house amidst traumatic life change and uproot, is eager to begin school on January 6th in pursuit of their dream career as an animator. To know Nina is to be heard, seen, and loved in a peculiarly sincere way scarcely found in the world.

Robin, too. His intelligence, his ability to lift his friends up from the tunnel vision of self-doubt and replace it with hope, lend to conversations that last a lifetime in the most treasured way. He’s a staple of friendship to so many in our community and to his dad, whom he cared for even as a child during Walter’s long kidney transplant process. Robin and his dad were inseparable.

The three of them were a team; they worked together, symbiotically, to love each other, to care for each other, showing up day by day, meal by meal.

Now, addled by the future ahead without Walter, necessities are out of reach in the complexities of handling the financial estate, the household, and burgeoning new careers.

Robin and Nina are seeking community aid to help ends meet as they grapple with this.

Some critical costs currently weighing on them are things like mortgage payments, prior neglected utilities recently discovered, along with the related late/disconnect fees, home and auto insurance, dump and garbage costs, gas, basic household needs that aren’t covered by food stamps or the food bank.

The stated amount is well-researched and thoughtfully named and Robin and Nina plan to adjust the total to reflect accurate need as aid from other resources hopefully develops.

Outside of GFM donation updates:

11/7/24 @ 5PM - $185