Virgil Finlay's Daughter Lail needs our help
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I met Virgil Finlay's daughter Lail and her daughter Brien at the World Fantasy Convention in 2014. We've become friends since then. For the last few years, she has been battling metatastic cancer while holding down a job, since her husband, musician Julio Hernandez, has been ill as well. They celebrated their 50th anniversary not so long ago.
A week or so ago I received this e-mail:
"Just a note to let you know that Sat. Nov 9th my house burned down with my husband inside. He died in the fire, my daughter and I are physically okay. So I don't yet know if any of the artwork survived, and my daughter and I are now homeless and staying with a kind friend."
Here's the news story.
Lail needs all the help she can get. Especially with things that the insurance company just won't cover. Besides the normal expenses, for example, she needs $1,100 just to remove her father's art from the house, and more to get it cleaned and restored. And there are her father's correspondences, which she has not been able to get into the building to see if they survived. Lail estimates she needs $5000 to get through this time.
And she needs to get these things paid for quickly, before it becomes too late to recover things from what's left of her house.
So she and her daughter need help, and I thought that asking the sf-fantasy-horror-pulp community through GOFUNDME would be the way to go.
A week or so ago I received this e-mail:
"Just a note to let you know that Sat. Nov 9th my house burned down with my husband inside. He died in the fire, my daughter and I are physically okay. So I don't yet know if any of the artwork survived, and my daughter and I are now homeless and staying with a kind friend."
Here's the news story.
Lail needs all the help she can get. Especially with things that the insurance company just won't cover. Besides the normal expenses, for example, she needs $1,100 just to remove her father's art from the house, and more to get it cleaned and restored. And there are her father's correspondences, which she has not been able to get into the building to see if they survived. Lail estimates she needs $5000 to get through this time.
And she needs to get these things paid for quickly, before it becomes too late to recover things from what's left of her house.
So she and her daughter need help, and I thought that asking the sf-fantasy-horror-pulp community through GOFUNDME would be the way to go.
Organizer and beneficiary
Bob Garcia
Organizer
Woodstock, IL
Lail Hernandez
Beneficiary
