Helping Manuel "COWBOY" Donley family

Our family is asking for your HELP! We are needing to raise funds for our loved one we that we lost on June 28th, 2020. My grandmother and family want to give Mr. Manuel "Cowboy" Donley a proper service and burial he deserves. He was known as the GODFATHER OF TEJANO MUSIC' MANUEL ‘COWBOY’ DONLEY. He was 92 yrs old at the time of his passing. He was a veteran and to be able to get him a proper veteran send off. Cowboy had battled "several health issues including macular degeneration, which clouded his vision, and he quietly endured more than a decade of dialysis." Which lead to hospital visits more frequent as time passed and his health declined. Family got together helped visited and talked to him till his last day on earth with us. His wife "Herminia" which helped him day after day never giving up on him has been so strong through all this that the family really wants to help take the financial stress off funeral arrangements off her shoulders during this transition time. The “COWBOY” that y’all may know or read about already was an Austinite. In 1955, he started playing with his band Las Estrellas, or "The Stars." Donley's music career strummed itself into the Tejano Music Hall of Fame and he was also honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. "It is musicians like Mr. “Cowboy” Donley who have been instrumental in building Austin's reputation as a music city with a diverse musical heritage that allow us to call ourselves the Live Music Capital of the World," wrote Rose Reyes, former director of music marketing for the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau, in a letter of support nominating Donley for the National Endowment for the Arts' lifetime achievement award for folk and traditional arts. Donley received an outpouring of support from Austin's music community, many of whom also wrote nomination letters for the Tejano Music Hall of Famer, including Grammy Award-winning artist Little Joe Hernandez and late former Austin Mayor Gus Garcia. Anything and everything is helpful small or big all money raised will go to pay for all funeral arrangements. If can’t help financially please SHARE this everywhere possible. Thank you and GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Thanks for your support and prayers!