William Cababat's Passing
I don’t really know how to start this… it’s still so hard to say the words out loud or even type them into a phone…
Some of you already know, but on September 1st, this past Wednesday evening, my dad joined Jesus in heaven after battling cancer for 3.5 years. Our family has a tremendous hole in it now. We’re heartbroken, we miss him desperately, and in some of the darkest moments… It’s hard to imagine how we’ll be able to go on at all without him.
Our family is taking it one day at a time, trusting that the Lord will get us through each one. Our greatest comfort right now is that he is no longer in pain, and that we will see him again someday.
We’ve already been and continue to be showered with love and prayers from so many people near and far, providing meals for our family, sending words of comfort and encouragement, delivering flowers, groceries, and everything in between. I apologize if we haven’t been able to get back to everyone who has reached out… Right now, our main focus is on our immediate family and caring for one another’s needs as well as our own. But know that we are still incredibly grateful for the outpour of love and support.
My step mom Carrie took the absolute best care of him especially in this past month, and continued to be a rock for all of us kids while we watched our dad slip away. I can't even begin to explain how much we all relied on her and her strength, her love, her compassion, her knowledge from being a hospice nurse, and just simply her ability to still be our mother while facing this heartbreaking situation... Watching her care for him with such tenderness and love every minute of every day when his body was failing him was one of the hardest but most beautiful things I think I will ever witness on this earth. However with all of that, not only did she lose her love but also her life partner.
I’m making this page for anyone who can and would like to support Carrie and my two younger siblings (Keilana 13 and Inoa 16) with some of the more immediate financial burdens that she will have to endure with my dad’s passing. She would never ask for help in this way, which is why I’m doing it for her. Every bit will go to her. We would also love to help create better security and comfort for them at our family’s country home (like a fence, electric driveway gate, and other home security measures). It will be a lot for Carrie and the kids to manage on their own, so we just want to do all we can to help them feel safe and okay.
My dad was loved tremendously, and I know many of you would love to honor him in some way. Unfortunately due to the times, we will most likely only have a small service for our immediate family. So, one other way you can honor him and also bless our family is by sharing a comment here… Maybe a memory, maybe some way he inspired you, maybe a famous “Willy Quote” or joke, or really anything that comes from your heart that you’d like to share. If I'm being honest, our family has to take it all in doses right now. But it truly is a gift to see and read some of the ways his life touched others, and perhaps it will be a gift for others to read… Because we KNOW his life touched many. We just know it did. His love and presence was boundless. ❤️
"So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy... I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
John 16:22, 33
