Support Martha Jane Miller's Final Journey

UPDATE & EDIT 11/04/2024

First and Foremost, We want to thank everyone who has donated to support my dear mother's, general funeral home expenses, funeral & burial & now celebration of life memorial. I want to do a quick transparent break down of how these funds will be Stewarded now that things have relatively calmed down and we've had time to think and plan. Originally my mother's full funeral & burial, funeral home expenses (which include,storage,transport, embalming, viewings, paperwork, fingerprints, prayer cards, obituary, casket, counsel, makeup,hair, dressing, maintenance, headstone with engraving ,plot, death certificates etc. ) with a celebration of life while just staying afloat, May I add, we were looking at about $15,000(ish). We quickly on arrival to funeral home discovered because my father, her husband of 32 years is a veteran, anything that has to do with the cemetery/burial/headstone /plot/small on site, grave side burial would be covered by the VA. THANK GOD!! So that miraculously brought the price down to just general funeral home expenses at $2,727.00 & Celebration of Life expenses, where another generous offer was made by my pastor and counselor. He generously offered the space and time at the ministry to have a location and to speak on mom and family & friends behalf, we now only have to provide food/drinks, decor, florals, any activities/entertainment, set up & clean up. Were estimating the total cost with a pot luck style set up will only be about $200.00(ish) with DIYs and what not. Shout-out to wholeness to freedom ministries because there response was so loving and timely. So then my sister requested from her Workplace an emergency fund to help cover the rest of the funeral home general expenses and they kindly and quickly approved $1000.00. Really took a huge load of our backs. Forever greatful to my sister Rebecca! So the costs came down to $1,727.00 at that point. So now my brother in Law has asked his place of employment for the same kind of emergency fund and they took generously and super timely approved $1,316.00 to finish off the remaining amount of this go fund me account. Shout-out to both their outstanding places of employment and to the two of them for working so hard, stepping up and making sure mom is totally taken care of because without them we were truly going to have to skip out on our bills or have mom cremated, which were not of her final wishes. So as of right now all of Moms actually funeral & burial expenses are just awaiting approval from the funeral home and those things are fully taken care of, again Glory to God our Faithful and Wonderful Heavenly Father for always making a way, and Thank you to everyone who has graciously and mercifully donated to this go fund me in the past couple of weeks we couldn't have done it without this Village of Love loving us and mom during one of the most hardest and devastating losses of our lives. As of Now we are so close and Almost there to our final full goal so that literally everything is financially covered so that me and my immediate family can mourn and grieve and have this time together and in prayer to do just that.

So the most current update is waiting for the funeral home to inform us both larger funds have been approved. Then we can move forward with making a date for the actual funeral & burial & the celebration of life to take place. We are aiming for next weekend between Friday-Sunday fingers crossed!! We will Update with location, exact dates and times as soon as we have them.

So as of now I am updating the go fund me donation amount for help with the final expenses which consist of

Moms burial attire: A dress, a cardigan, undergarments, pantyhose, shoes, costume jewelry and her life time favorite perfume, Heaven sent.

(I'm going to try to get her outfit from her favorite thrift store if possible, perfume is $23.00 on Amazon)

✨Moms Celebration of Life: Food, drink, dessert, disposable cutlery/plates/cups, guest book, Florals, table and room decor, activities, transport, memorialbilia guest gift bags, and a small gratituity/donation of our appreciation to wholeness to freedom ministries.

Immediate Family dress attire, (Funeral & Celebration of Life outfits for attendance & Family pictures)

My Father (her husband), Myself and Rebecca (my sister) (moms daughter's), 7 children, (moms closest grandchildren who will be attending) and our spouses.

(Also going to thrift stores for whatever we can possibly find there, along with using what we have but my father and my kids particularly will need outfits)

️ My sister, 3 kids and hubby's Travel expenses: Round trip ~4 hours, to and from. Hotel accommodations, as we unfortunately don't have enough room here at our family home. Gas and food for the trip, and there stay while in town.

⛽ Daily Miscellaneous & Bill funds: Food, Gas, Bills, general kids needs here at home, to stay afloat while going through this sudden and unexpected loss.

I am out of work right now due to taking care of my mom before her passing, she had been declining and needed help around the clock. I have also been suffering with chronic depression the last few years due to traumatic events that had taken place in my life, in recent years past, so I decided to take a break from work and just stay home until starting school. I am currently working on getting my GED and Starting seminary school as soon as possible. Because my Father is retired a portion of his set and limited income monthly came in my mother's name and very unfortunately he will no longer have that income coming in anymore due to her passing.

God has been so great during this process, however some spiritual warfare has come upon us and My fiance, Mike lost his Job he truly loved, and has been working at for months now due to unfortunate series of events that have taken place back to back, the week before my mom past, he was out of work with a terrible infection in his knee that made him practically bed riden for a week, and then Mom passed here at the house which caused him to miss more work for obvious reasons like supporting me and the kids, so terribly so and at the worst timing lost his job. His position had to be filled and it was filled, leaving him to have to start job searching through all of this. Worst timing ever!!

ALL FUNDS RAISED , FROM HERE ON OUT, WILL GO TOWARDS THE LISTED NEEDS ABOVE. Moms final outfit, moms celebration of life, dress attire for immediate family, funds for my sister's travel too and from, and if there's anything left after these are taken care of, the rest will go to bills and daily, weekly, monthly necessities for home,family and kids.

AGAIN: THANK YOU ALL, FROM OUR HEARTS TO YOURS!!

✝️❣️GLORY TO GOD!! He has been so so good to us, and almost every obstacle he has made a way so far! It's a true testimony to the Fathers love for us and just simply knowing my mom is in such a better place then here in a broken, ugly world and in a fleshly body. I know in my spirit and hearts of hearts Jesus has her. It has been a really difficult time for us and we're all just putting one foot in front of the other right now!! Taking it day by day, minute by minute!! More valuable than all of the above our prayers for my family!! We believe in the power of prayer! We know when loved ones are holding us up in prayer the impossible becomes possible. I know without my faith I would be a complete and utter wreck right now but we are all doing okay!! Thank you for taking your time and showing us your love on here!! We all are truly eternally greatful!! It really does mean the world to us and again we literally couldn't lay my mom properly down to rest without everyone's help and support!! God Bless!!! ✝️

️✝️ In Loving Memory of my Mother, Martha Jane Miller, Due to tons of responses of many saying they would like to know how they can help, in lue of flowers & cards we would really love to send her off in a special way for her, Lord knows she deserves it for sure. My family is starting a Gofundme to help cover her Burial, We got a massive deal on services, burial,plot,headstone, obituary,prayer cards, paperwork,transport,finger prints, etc. Due to my father serving in the Military, we found out they take care of vets very generously in this way, and seriously Ammens funeral home is amazing as well. It really does take a village and we figured if anyone can afford just a few bucks anything better then nothing!!

Your donation will be Stewarded in a Godly way for his child of the Kingdom. We really appreciate it. More than anything, please send prayers, my family needs all the prayers right now

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SHORTLY. WILL BE UPDATED SOON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE & UNDERSTANDING.

GOD BLESS ☁️

-Jessica Miller