{"id":4847,"date":"2019-04-25T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=244261"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:13","slug":"11-children-orphaned-and-unable-to-pay-for-funeral-after-their-mother-died-of-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/11-children-orphaned-and-unable-to-pay-for-funeral-after-their-mother-died-of-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Children Orphaned and Unable to Pay for Funeral After Their Mother Died of Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 siblings ranging in age from four to 23 are desperately trying to raise money for a funeral after their mother unexpectedly died of breast cancer. For now, they say, they\u2019re on their own, without a father or a mother.<\/span>Rashida\u2019s partner and some of her children\u2019s father passed away 10 years ago, leaving her to be a single parent. Things were difficult, of course, for the Dearborn, MI, family, but they took a turn for the worse when Rashida began having medical issues and went to the hospital for treatment.<\/span>\u201cHer chest was leaking,\u201d says Tamera Stone<\/a>, Rashida\u2019s daughter. \u201cShe thought it was milk and stuff. We were like, \u2018Ma, you\u2019ve got to go get this checked out, this is very serious.’\u201d<\/span>It was indeed serious. At the hospital, Rashida was diagnosed with stage IV terminal breast cancer, and her condition deteriorated quickly.<\/span>The children were informed of their mother\u2019s cancer and the fact that her organs were failing<\/a> a few days after she went into the hospital. The next morning, a doctor called to inform them that she\u2019d passed away at around three a.m.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: GoFundMe\/Remembering Life of A Mother<\/a><\/span>\u201cShe was the glue that held us together,\u201d says Tamera. \u201cShe didn\u2019t want to break us down. She didn\u2019t want us worrying about her.\u201d<\/span>Since the tragedy of their mother\u2019s passing, the 11 orphaned children<\/a> have been attempting to keep everything together, with the eldest siblings taking care of the younger ones. They\u2019re also tasked with taking care of their own three childrn, Rashida\u2019s grandchildren, plus a nephew that Rashida was caring for before her passing, and there\u2019s another baby on the way. The family honestly doesn\u2019t know if everything is going to work out all right in the end.<\/span>\u201cSome people still have their parents and tell you it is going to be OK. It\u2019s not,\u201d says Rashida\u2019s son Kenneth Stone. \u201cWe don\u2019t know it\u2019s going to be OK. We don\u2019t have our parents anymore. We just have each other.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: GoFundMe\/Remembering Life of A Mother<\/a><\/span>One of the hardest parts has been making the younger children and grandchildren understand what happened and guiding them through the emotional trauma that reality has caused.<\/span>\u201cWe can\u2019t tell them, \u201cHey, guys it\u2019s going to be OK, she\u2019s coming home,\u2019 and I have to be honest with them,\u201d says Tamera, regarding her younger siblings.<\/span>And on top of the emotional struggles, the housework, and the work it takes to keep all the kids in school and passing their classes, the eldest of Rashida\u2019s children also have an awful lot of financial concerns to deal with, including the cost of their mother\u2019s funeral<\/a>.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Tammy Stonee<\/a><\/span>\u201cWe\u2019re battling with the financial problems right now,\u201d Tamera says, \u201cand considering that school is still in, we have to pick up the pieces where our mom left off at. Right now, we\u2019re on our own.\u201d<\/span>The siblings have created a GoFundMe<\/a> page to help raise money for their mother\u2019s funeral and burial. Thousands of strangers have been touched by their story, and over 4,000 people donated. The siblings now have more than $126,000, which is more than enough to lay their mother to rest properly. But will it be enough to support them as they try to get all the siblings through school? It\u2019s hard to say.<\/span>Our hearts go out to Rashida\u2019s family as they cope with the grief over the loss of their mother and try to figure out how they\u2019ll make ends meet in her absence. May they find the healing and support they so desperately need during this difficult time.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Share on Facebook<\/a><\/span>
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11 siblings ranging in age from four to 23 are desperately trying to raise money for a funeral after their mother unexpectedly died of breast cancer. For now, they say, they\u2019re on their own, without a father or a mother.Rashida\u2019s partner and some of her children\u2019s father passed away 10 years ago, leaving her to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44524,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions\/44524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}