Christina Skelton

Jessica Bartolomey is organizing this fundraiser.

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Hi, my name is Jessie and I’m fundraising for my sister and best friend, Christina Skelton. Chrissy as she was known to everyone, was an amazing person, funny, genuine, loving, just an all-around good person. She was a mother, a sister, an aunt, a niece and sister-in-law. Chrissy ran a paranormal group on Facebook for years and inherently took control of it for quite some time, she absolutely loved paranormal stories. She wrote a bunch of her own and posted them on that page, and were very well received by the people who read them. So, we then decided to do a podcast where we would just talk about true crime, paranormal things and just weird stuff. She always wanted to visit haunted places so we could record about it. Unfortunately, Chrissy developed some heart issues as well as some other health issues last year in June of 2023, where she was in the ICU for a week then to a regular room for about a couple weeks to recover, she almost died. She came out of that and fought to get better. She was on the road to recovery, very slowly but definitely doing better within a few months. In October/November she was up and walking which she could hardly do before that, so this was a very good sign that she was doing way better and would hopefully be able to juggle all the health responsibilities and get back on track to be able to live a healthier life. She then contracted COVID-19 in December and never seem to recover from it. She just got weaker and her heart couldn’t handle it anymore. It just wasn’t working in the manner It should have. On the morning of Thursday, March 7 2024, I found her, unable to get up or move from a chair in her apartment. She was completely exhausted and said she needed help getting back to bed. I then called 911 and asked for an ambulance. After some talk with the EMTs, she decided it was time to go to the hospital. She was rushed to the hospital where her heart basically collapsed, hospital staff performed CPR on her for almost 30 minutes. They were not able to get her heartbeat back and she passed away in Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy, New Jersey at the age of 47. This was a complete and utter shock to all of us. She has been a survivor and a fighter, all of her life and to see her lose her life like this was devastating. As some of you may well know, she was barely scraping by with money from the state for being out of work she never even got her disability that she applied for months ago. My sister leaves behind family and friends that absolutely loved her. Her son Austin whom she always spoke about and shared pictures on her social media has lost his mother at the age of 29. She was so absolutely proud of him as we all are. As you all may also know, we are all living paycheck to paycheck. So we are asking for donations to be able to pay for her funeral expenses as well as any expenses that may arise. We know everybody is probably living the way we are, paycheck to paycheck but even if you donate $5.00, 10.00 or whatever you can it all adds up and we would be eternally grateful. And for many of you, you may know that nothing in Chrissy‘s life ever came easy, and I know that because I was right there with her fighting alongside her. She was a survivor and no matter what bad things came her way she just dealt with it and tried to just live her life. This isn’t an easy task for us to ask any of you for your hard earned money but we would very greatly appreciate it. We have not gotten a date yet for the services, but we would like it held at Flynn and son funeral home in Fords, New Jersey. We will update everyone on social media, and here as well when the date and time are determined. We thank each, and everyone of you who played a part in her life and said the most wonderful things about her, and most of you didn’t actually even meet her, which to me, proves how much of an impression she leaves on peoples lives. Thank you all again.

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