Help The Duggin Family
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On May 25, 2019, my best friend, Amy Davis Duggin, along with her two children Marley (10) and Wyatt (8), world came crashing down. Chad Duggin, her husband of nearly 11 years and father of their two children died suddenly and unexpectedly and Heaven gained another beautiful soul. Amy is 36, and her husband Chad, was 41. While Amy and her family are certainly appreciative of everyone who has helped her during this time, many others have asked or wondered “What can I do to help?” With Amy’s permission, I am starting this GoFundMe to literally raise funds for her and her children.
In the early a.m. hours of Sunday, May 19, Chad was rushed to the hospital via ambulance with severe hypertension and accompanying symptoms, resulting in an emergency 8-hour surgery to repair an aortic dissection (an open-heart surgery) and an artery bypass in his left leg. The last words Amy and Chad spoke were “I love you”, as he was taken to be prepped for his emergent operation. Although he fought hard to recover and held on for 6 days in the Cardio-Vascular Intensive Care Unit, Chad never regained consciousness. On Saturday, May 25, he abruptly and without warning took a turn for the worse and within two hours, he had passed away. His children never saw him alive after they went to bed the previous Saturday night.
Please donate any financial help you can for Amy and her children. Chad was the (PROUD) breadwinner of their family, affording them the privilege for Amy to stay at home until their youngest went to kindergarten. In the recent years, Chad had finally reached a point financially in his career that gave Amy the ability to go back to college last fall, to obtain a degree in social work, which had been one of her dreams. She began attending Western Kentucky University in the fall of 2018, where she is currently finishing a degree in social work. Amy is only 12-15 months away from reaching that goal. Chad and Amy also bought their dream home in Gallatin, TN in December 2018. Their children finished out the school year at the school they were attending before the move, and for Marley and Wyatt this coming school year in August 2019 will begin both a new year AND a new school at Station Camp Elementary. ANY money you can afford to give will help - so that Amy can obtain her bachelor’s degree, eventually take over as the SOLE household provider in a good job with security; to afford to keep her and the children in their house and able to pay the bills and simply surviveis so greatly appreciated. The trauma they have suffered from Chad’s sudden and unexpected death is more than any of us can comprehend, and to have to uproot their family again so soon, while they are already in an uncertain and new familial and financial territory, would be devastation beyond words.
There is no donation too small or too great, that will go unnoticed or unappreciated. While we have set a goal, going beyond the goal would be blessings upon blessings. Chad and Amy’s number one priority was always their marriage and family. Not only would your financial gift mean so much to Amy and her children, but to Chad as well. Chad would have been so grateful and so thankful to you. Please find it in your heart to give, and share, share, share! A situation like this shouldn’t happen to anybody, especially this family. Thank you for taking the time to read, to share, and to give.
Martin and Kristin Herr
In the early a.m. hours of Sunday, May 19, Chad was rushed to the hospital via ambulance with severe hypertension and accompanying symptoms, resulting in an emergency 8-hour surgery to repair an aortic dissection (an open-heart surgery) and an artery bypass in his left leg. The last words Amy and Chad spoke were “I love you”, as he was taken to be prepped for his emergent operation. Although he fought hard to recover and held on for 6 days in the Cardio-Vascular Intensive Care Unit, Chad never regained consciousness. On Saturday, May 25, he abruptly and without warning took a turn for the worse and within two hours, he had passed away. His children never saw him alive after they went to bed the previous Saturday night.
Please donate any financial help you can for Amy and her children. Chad was the (PROUD) breadwinner of their family, affording them the privilege for Amy to stay at home until their youngest went to kindergarten. In the recent years, Chad had finally reached a point financially in his career that gave Amy the ability to go back to college last fall, to obtain a degree in social work, which had been one of her dreams. She began attending Western Kentucky University in the fall of 2018, where she is currently finishing a degree in social work. Amy is only 12-15 months away from reaching that goal. Chad and Amy also bought their dream home in Gallatin, TN in December 2018. Their children finished out the school year at the school they were attending before the move, and for Marley and Wyatt this coming school year in August 2019 will begin both a new year AND a new school at Station Camp Elementary. ANY money you can afford to give will help - so that Amy can obtain her bachelor’s degree, eventually take over as the SOLE household provider in a good job with security; to afford to keep her and the children in their house and able to pay the bills and simply surviveis so greatly appreciated. The trauma they have suffered from Chad’s sudden and unexpected death is more than any of us can comprehend, and to have to uproot their family again so soon, while they are already in an uncertain and new familial and financial territory, would be devastation beyond words.
There is no donation too small or too great, that will go unnoticed or unappreciated. While we have set a goal, going beyond the goal would be blessings upon blessings. Chad and Amy’s number one priority was always their marriage and family. Not only would your financial gift mean so much to Amy and her children, but to Chad as well. Chad would have been so grateful and so thankful to you. Please find it in your heart to give, and share, share, share! A situation like this shouldn’t happen to anybody, especially this family. Thank you for taking the time to read, to share, and to give.
Martin and Kristin Herr
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Kristin Connelly Herr
Organizer
Gallatin, TN