For Our Beloved Father, John Navarro (1948–2025)

“He forgot the world — but the world never forgot him.”

Our dad, John Navarro, passed away peacefully on Friday, November 21st, after a long and heartbreaking battle with Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease.

He was surrounded by love, music, and his family — the same love he spent his whole life giving to everyone around him.

John lived a life full of laughter, generosity, and warmth. He was the kind of person people never forgot … even when he began forgetting the world around him. Alzheimer’s slowly took his memories, but it never took away his spirit, his kindness, or the love he had for his family.

Alzheimer’s doesn’t just affect the person living with it — it reshapes the entire family.

The emotional, physical, and financial toll is something you can’t fully understand until you’re walking the journey yourself.

For us, that journey included:

    •    24/7 in-home care

    •    Repeated emergency room visits

    •    Multiple hospital and long-term care stays

    •    Memory Care placement

    •    Hospice care

    •    And months of decisions no family is ever prepared to make.

We stayed by his side every step of the way. I never left him in his final days. We held his hand, played his favorite 50s–70s music, and spoke to him lovingly as the disease slowly took each ability from him. Alzheimer’s is relentless, painful, and unfair — but love remained stronger than the disease until his very last breath.

Unfortunately, our dad did not have life insurance, and the cost of prolonged care, medical bills, and final arrangements has placed a tremendous financial burden on our family.

We are humbly asking for support to help us honor our dad the way he deserves.

Every donation — no matter the size — will help ease the financial weight left behind after years of Alzheimer’s care and the expenses of his final arrangements.

Your kindness will help give him the dignified farewell he earned through a lifetime of love, loyalty, and quiet strength.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

Thank you for supporting our family.

Thank you for honoring our dad.

And thank you for recognizing the reality of a disease that steals memories — but never love. ️