Help Hannah’s Family Cover Her Celebration of Life!!!

Jackson and Hannah were a loving family from Tuolumne County until Hannah’s passing. Hannah lived her life knowing that every moment of her life was so sweet and precious. Especially after beating melanoma cancer in her twenties. Anyone who knows Hannah will know that she loves the great outdoors, hiking, adventuring, looking for crystals and amazing rocks, and, most of all, spending time with her family. Hannah had also been working hard toward her forestry degree at Columbia College and was very knowledgeable about our local forests and wildlife. She was a certified arborist and loved the local forests maybe as much as she loved her “Mowgli Bear” otherwise known as, Jackson.

Life seemed so very close to perfect when Hannah experienced a recurrence of melanoma at age thirty. Scans revealed that the melanoma had progressed from stage three to stage four and she had lesions on her lungs. As Hannah began to battle the recurrence, she became pregnant with her third beautifully precious baby girl, Hadassah Love. After Hannah delivered Hadassah, scans revealed lesions in multiple different organ systems and that the melanoma had metastasized to her brain and the tumors in her neck caused Hannah great agony . Eventually the lung lesion would advance to many small tumors in her lungs which had left her with a cough for about a year that got worse and worse. And, towards the end, she contracted pneumonia which ultimately was the silent killer.

The first emergency brain surgery was due to Hannah vomiting and becoming incoherent as a result of bleeding on the brain. The second brain surgery was due to a seizure caused by a brain bleed. As a result, Jackson needed to become a 24/7 around-the-clock caregiver to Hannah and he took it on with tenderness and compassion. I, as an observer can testify to the love between the two. Hannah was constantly reaching out for Jackson’s hand. He could not leave her bedside at times because the only thing Hannah wanted was to hold his hand.

Up until that point, Jackson had always been Hannah’s primary caregiver (as well as Hannah’s mother Charmaine) and Jackson had somehow managed to still go to work to support the family. However, things would change dramatically after melanoma was found in Hannah’s brain which would cause brain bleeds and subsequent surgeries. Jackson was longer able to go to work due to Hannah requiring him full time. Hannah became his full time job until her passing on Sunday, December 1, 2024 just ten days shy of her thirty-first birthday.

The medical expenses, the therapies and treatments that Hannah required, the bills, the memorial service and the funeral home expenses and cremation are mounting even after Hannah’s death. That is not to mention the needs of Hannah’s growing children and the new baby who is getting closer to being six months old.

The family’s savings has been totally depleted and the expenses are continuing to mount. We are asking for your help to assist Hannah’s family as they remain in great need to pay for the memorial service and the aftermath that cancer leaves in its wake.

We thank you in advance for your donation to meet this urgent emergency. Any donation from $1 on up is greatly appreciated and cherished.

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