Help the Family of Davis McCormick-Somerville

My name is Milena R. Somerville 
I am from Oakland, CA 
My 6 month old son and I currently live in Western Massachusetts. We are raising money for funeral/memorial and cost of living expenses.

Davis McCormick-Somerville was my husband, and the love of my life. When we met we fell hard, he proposed after 2 weeks under an Eclipsing moon. We found out I was pregnant and got married. I spent nearly everyday of the last year of Davis’s life with him. The happiest moments of my life were with Davis. He gave me the greatest joy of my life Ambrose Amaris our son. Whom he named Amaris meaning child of the moon, gift from god, and you are loved. I thought I’d found my happy ending. We were married March 11, 2019, he passed suddenly April 7, 2020 50 days before his 27th birthday.

When I found out I started going into shock. The police called me to let me know they were about to make contact with me in person, they cannot deliver this news over the phone. I am Davis’s legal next of Kin. This is when his adoptive mother called me, to tell me over the phone that Davis had passed, knowing I was alone with my 6 month old son, knowing the police were on their way to deliver the news appropriately, knowing as a doctor that this is the opposite of protocol, this is not the way you notify family. She told me Davis had “passed” and said that she could come over and take the baby for a few days. She said that her family decided they just wanted the baby and not me. They are strangers to Ambrose and I was alone in Massachusetts away from my family entirely dependent on their support.

After Davis passed I found his birth Mother Marcia Smith. His adoptive family hadn’t notified her of his passing. After I told her we formed a friendship that I’m extremely grateful for. 

While Davis was alive he told me that his family never told him he was adopted, he figured it out on his own when he realized he was black and bore zero resemblance to either of his adoptive parents who are both white. 

Once he figured it out they told him that the agreement they had with his biological mother was that he could reach out to her when he was ready. When I contacted Marcia I found out they’d promised her an open adoption, one day they left the state with Davis without a word. Marcia was 16 years old and independently taking care of herself on welfare.

Davis would openly state he was abandoned at birth and he was never corrected, it turned out he had a mother and 2 younger siblings who waited an entire lifetime to know Davis. They are shattered, we are all shattered. Davis died thinking he’d been abandoned at birth when he had an entire family waiting to love him. The last time his biological mother Marcia saw him he was a newborn. We had plans to all come this summer so they could meet and she could meet her grandson. She will never get to get to experience the presence of the baby she gave up selflessly, hoping to give him a chance at a better life.

Davis was our provider. I’d just returned to work from my post partum period when my job shut down due to Covid-19. Then he died suddenly. We are lost without him, I do not know how I will make it. We need help with funeral/memorial expenses, necessities for our sons care, and travel expenses so I can make the drive to bring Marcia her grandson. We honestly need and greatly appreciate any and all of the help and support we can get.

link to Davis’ Obituary: 
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/davis-mccormick-somerville-obituary?pid=196026113