Please help us to bring our Mum home❤️‍

EDIT: We have now successfully raised enough to bring my beautiful mum home from the USA - She will be arriving back to the UK tomorrow. I will never be able to put into words the gratitude i hold for each and every one of you, who has shared, donated, or even been a listening ear for us. From the bottom of my heart you are wonderful people. THANK YOU. You have saved us❤️‍.

My name is Ebony Lennox. I am 20 years old, and from Leicester. As some of you may know, on the 16/01/2024, we lost our beautiful Mum. Not only a mother, but a daughter, a sister, a girlfriend, a cousin, a friend. Our bestest friend was ripped from us so cruelly, and we don’t know why. Our hearts are broken. The gaping hole left inside of us just gets larger, as more time passes. No one can prepare you for such pain, and it will never get easier.

She was ripped cruelly away from our arms, and the torment this brings is unbearable. We need answers. What most of you don’t know, is that after years of suffering, fighting demons unknown to those she loved through her blue eyed mask she so bravely put on.. she met her soulmate. She had plans to visit for so so long, as he lives in America, whilst we are in the UK. Through months of hard work, we managed to get here there, to help her out of the hole that she had been in for so long. She was due to return mid-february - her E-ticket return home was prepared, and i helped her to the airport, and gave her my one final hug. But she didn’t come back. Her soul flew, and she went to heaven whilst sleeping. We don’t know how, we don’t know why, but i find peace knowing that she suffered no trauma physically - my beautiful mum, her tiny, fragile body was still as it was.

We have no information, other than a toxicology report will take up to twelve weeks, and we cannot do anything until then. I cannot say goodbye, my brothers cannot say goodbye, until the USA police can confirm the cause, and this is tearing us apart. Knowing that organ tests, blood tests and investigations are taking place without any of us able to be present, her hands unable to be held.

During the process, i tried and tried to convince her to get travel insurance, as i know the importance incase of emergencies. Everything was sorted, but my mother was adamant she would be fine, and she didn’t. She didn’t get the correct cover. If i could give her head a wobble, i would, and trust me when i say she will never hear the end of this when i finally join her at the gate. But because of this, nothing is covered. All expenses are ours to pay, with no help. We are broken and lost, but we are prepared to do everything it takes to bring her home. We have to do this. There is no other option. We need her.

As she was in the USA, it costs over £9000 for just repatriation alone - for those of you who don’t know, this is the transportation of a deceased person overseas. It is a long haul flight, so there are costs of the transportation, this is not even touching her funeral. I need her home, Kai needs her home, her Mother and father, sisters and aunties, cousins and friends.Josh needs her to be at peace with her children. We are mourning and we don’t yet know how to grieve without closure. Our world has collapsed, it’s stopped, yet earth is still spinning. There are flight costs, transportation, holding costs in a funeral service. Nothing in the USA is free, and she had no life insurance, nothing to our names but love.

I wish she had got the cover she needed, but who was to know. I hope that somewhere, no matter the outcome, we can raise even the smallest amount to be able to say goodbye to her. Our family are trying their hardest but we come from nothing. We are working towards anything that we can do, but we need help. Please, if you can consider contributing anything at all, please hold us in your heart. Even if it is just a prayer. I would never ever do this under any circumstances but we are lost and we will never be able to express the true pain that we are in.

Family, friends, friends of friends, anyone, please, for the next 12 weeks, please help us to bring our Mum home. We don’t know where she is, who is taking care of her, where she is being held until we find out why, giving us time. Every chance i get i will fight for this to happen, and i hope anyone who loved her will to . She had too much love to give. I need her to fly free.

Please. I thank you for reading, if you got this far, and I promise with everything I had, never in my life will i ask for anything else. Just this. Any, and all funds raised will go straight to getting her home. As soon as she is home, we will continue to save money for her funeral, no matter what i have to do. That is a promise.

If anyone ever needs further information about anything, i am just a message away. This will be on all of my social media’s, my contacts and I will never give up. She raised me to be a warrior and i will never give up, for her legacy and for my Brothers. My boys.

Thank you so so much, from the bottom of my heart ️. Kerrie Leanne Lennox, 03/10/1984 - 16/01/2024

EDIT: I have raised the target amount as i was unaware go fund me take a small fee per donation. I do not expect it to hit the target, but having it there for my own determination brings me a sense of comfort because i will not give up.