Hello, I am Dave, the only child of Clara and Michael Gish. Michael, my father, has been deceased since 2018.

Clara, my mother and only immediate family I had, also has left this earth far too soon, passing away this last Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, due to rapidly decreasing health in tandem with heart failure.

Unfortunately, we come from a place of poverty.

I myself am mentally and physically disabled, and unable to work.

My partner only works a minimum wage job, and my adoptive sister is actively paying off the mortgage on my mother's property, so she only has so much to spare...

Even just the cremation itself isn't at all attainable on our own. So I have come here to ask for any gracious people to please donate even just a bit, so I can properly put my mom, who was my whole world, to rest respectfully...

All funds will be used for cremation, memorial, and service, if we are able to make enough for all.

Any extra money after/if all goals are met, will go toward memory jewelry to hold ashes, or to bills related to death certificates and such.

We need $1,280 at minimum for the cremation alone.

*marked as $1,350 to account for some of GoFundMe's fees.