Birdie Abbott Howell

Our family lost our beautiful, silly, bad-ass five-year-old girl in a tragic accident. While on her last trip of the summer, she was hit with a car at low speeds by a close family member and died on the way to the hospital.

She was looking forward to her rainbow cake for her birthday this week and starting first grade. She was a social butterfly, an incredible goofball, and was special to every single person who met her. She hiked in dresses and had a lisp and a generous heart. She has two older brothers who will miss her forever and one of which has to live with the trauma of having seen it happen.

There is loss all around us, but there is something particularly heavy about an unexpected, tragic, stupid accident to a dear girl who was a light in the world. We're asking for a general fund that can be used and applied toward extra child care so her parents can seek therapy, food delivery plans, household cleaning services, and expenses for a trip to a few of the family's favorite vacation/camping spots around their state as they say goodbye to her in their close special spaces.