Donate to Keep Cynthia's Home Secure

Our family is facing the unimaginable hardship of potentially losing our home after the loss of husband and Dad, Robert, to long COVID-19 complications last year. Devastated by his passing, our Momma, Cynthia, now finds herself in a precarious financial situation, struggling to make ends meet and keep a roof over her family’s heads. With the mortgage payments looming and not enough steady monthly income to rely on anymore (Momma and Dad are/were disabled), we are reaching out to the community for help. We are hoping to raise the necessary funds to maintain ownership of the house our family has called home for so long (over 26 years of love and memories in our childhood home). We are humbly requesting $3,500 to help our Momma catch up on the mortgage and not have so much financial stress on her.

Momma has already had to take Dad's guitars to the pawn store to get enough food and utilities money (obviously not worth enough money to pay the mortgage). She has talked about pawning their wedding bands but is super hesitant to do that. If she loses the guitars she would be SO upset but if she loses the rings she would be inconsolable!

Momma has also taken money out from one of those companies like Net Credit whose ads you see on television all the time. We have heard that these type of loans are super hard to pay off. We have asked her not to do that again while we try this way to get help (from family and friends and community) before she resorts to taking anymore money in that manner!

All of us kids have tried to help Momma either financially, emotionally or physically (in the home) but with our own bills we are not able to pay her mortgage as well! She does work part time at the local Home Depot and they have been great to her (she can only work part time on SSDI).

The emotional toll of grieving her beloved partner and soulmate while simultaneously battling the threat of losing her house is immense, but our momma remains steadfast in her determination to provide stability and security for us during this profoundly difficult time. By contributing what you can, you have the opportunity to lift this family up, easing our burdens and ensuring we can continue honoring the memory of the husband and father that we lost too soon. Every donation, no matter the size, has the power to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those affected by the long-lasting impacts of the pandemic, offering us the potential glimmer of hope when it's needed most.

Keelia still lives with Momma and is her day to day emotional help while she herself (as we all are) is grieving the loss of her Dad! Colton was able to come home briefly from Canada to help finish a slew of projects that Dad had started and not been able to finish! Shayna has been able to help buy groceries as well as to send Momma some money to help her as much as she can! I, Syan, wrote this for her and am sad that I live too far away (Boston) to help on the daily basis as well (though I wrote this and am helping Momma to post it)! We ALL miss Dad/Robert and have seen how losing her soulmate has devastated our beloved Momma.

To add insult to injury, Momma's car broke down late last month and she was panicked on how she would afford to fix it (2001 Mazda, standard transmission). Luckily her church (Eastmont Church in Bend) stepped in and paid "most" of the cost of repairs; but, like so many other things since Dad left us, she was once again on the wrong end of the bill when the cost of replacing the clutch was not as cut and dried as the estimate had put forth! Apparently they have pack rats that decided to chew on things in her car! So, once again, she is left not being able to pay the full amount of the mortgage! As Momma said, you have to have some form of transportation to get to work! Shayna paid the first few days of Uber and a friend lent her a truck shortly thereafter!

Momma laughed sadly and said "When it rains, it pours!" She said she relies on her faith in God to help her not have a full blown nervous breakdown!

I can only hope that they same -people who asked her how they can help her shortly after Dad died will be able to give a few dollars apiece to help her now! If you have ever fallen behind on bills, you know only too well the phone calls she is getting right now! Those calls only intensify her grief and stress!

Thank you for taking the time to read this! Either I or Momma will update things as we are able! If your family, like so many right now, cannot donate anything, we completely understand! It has been hard for all of us since the pandemic! Please consider forwarding this link on whatever form of social media you use!