
Help Gabriel with Mother's Funeral Costs
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Hi my name is Gabriel and I lost my mother on May 21st at the age of 69 due to various health issues. I need help covering her funeral costs and burial she did not have life insurance. Please please help me bury my mother in my time of need my mother was born Heikel Mekonnen Desta on 2/6/1955 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia her parents were Mekonnen Desta and Demeketch Tesega Heikel came to the USA in 1970 at the young age of 15 she worked many many many jobs from being a taxi driver to CNA to Muni then working as a teachers aide in the school district of contra Costa. In 2009 she became sick with Coronary Artery Disease which transcended into Congestive heart failure and her career came to an abrupt end. She had a stroke during her heart surgery which rendered her unable to speak and paralyzed on one side. The last 15 years of her life have been filled with sadness joy pain and death. On 5/21/2024 at the age of 69 my mother passed away of heart failure sepsis septic shock covid and multiple organ shut down and double pneumonia. at Sutter in Antioch California where she had lived for 36 years. Her mother Demeketch passed away in 1991 from cancer and her Father Mekonnen Desta passed away in 1966 at the age of 52 from Leukemia. She leaves behind one son Gabriel age 40 and her Older Brother Yossedeck Desta age 82. Please help her get buried.
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Gabriel Desta
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Oakley, CA