Please help if you can, this family lost their beloved sister 2 weeks ago and has an outstanding cremation and burial cost. She was disabled and was low income and did not have any last financial preparations. The state is not paying even though they were her guardian for the last few years.

Martha’s very limited family is raising funds to cover the cost of cremation ($1500), $75 for the medical examiner and death certificate, and additional expenses to add her ashes to her father’s gravesite and hold a small gathering.

Martha experienced depression at a young age, leading her to use alcohol and medications to cope. This coping mechanism led to an inability to hold a job or complete schooling, resulting in a life spent in group homes and institutions. She enjoyed the simplest of things in life, like spending time with her family around the holidays as limited as she saw them. She enjoyed food, laughing at jokes, and sharing stories from her minimal long-term memory before her disability. She did like to write her own songs and kept the lyrics in a personal book. As a child around the age of 3, Martha liked to eat petunias when she was ever outside playing, which endearingly was always a fun story for her family to tell of her: “Martha the petunia eater.” Preceded in death by her father, Leonard Weis, who pre-purchased a burial plot earlier in life and changed his funeral plans later in life from full casket to cremation as to make room for his six children. Leonard always put love and family first, and he instilled this in Martha, despite the life she experienced.

The family wants you to know they greatly appreciate help of any kind and deeply appreciate the generosity of anyone who is able to help make this child of God remembered and honored.