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Help Lay Susan Graham to Rest with Dignity

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Hi, my name is Kevin Herbig, and my Mother's name is Susan Graham. She wasn't just a great mother, she ended up being my best friend. This woman worked her entire life, I am talking Amazon work all that walking up and down, and her other few jobs... we had moved. One thing she told me, we lived together last 6 or 7 years of her life, was that while she was going to UofL to be an accountant, the FBI approached her and asked if she wanted to join. I never knew this until one day we were eating and talking. That was about the same time my parents divorced. She was the Mom that nomatter what the occasion she had totes outside for decorations, and Christmas was her favorite, lots of totes for that. She passed last October, still have a huge bill thier and would like to pay the lady, her sister, for fronting us the $2000 it took to get them to at least do the showing and creamation. Mom did have a plot at Memorial Gardens, it was behind her deceased husband but I moved it because I know she would want to be buried next to her youngest son Marshall Jr. This has changed my burial path because I was going to get just shoved in the dirt but I am getting creamated so I rest beside my Mom.My dad has been gone a long time, he lays in Louisville, that is where we are from, but it wouldnt be right to do anything there. The reason I am trying to seek $5000 is because I dont want to wait another 3 yeaars before I can bury her, she deserves better and Im trying. Ive lost a good job due to issues about mom, hearing her last heart beat changed me, back to the askin is that my aunt , her sister, put up almost $2000, she was the only one who had access to get that money just so we could have a small showing and creamation. We still owe them like $1600 maybe a bit more or less, but I havent been able to find another job that can give me 40 hours a week, some know why. and we need $1700 or a bit less, I just started a payment plan, thats for Memorial Gardens where she will be laid to rest. If there is any left I will donate it to cancer, if thats OK. Mom had her mind until the end. She was a very indepandant person, and she hated not being able to walk, and she kept saying she wanted to go home, 6 months in hospitals or care homes back and forth, her will to live was over, she was ready to go. This is how she made it happen without even me noticing. She was constantly wanting the feeding tube out, I just thought it hurt her. They told her They couldnt do that until she gained enough weight, so she starts eating everything one day she met that goal and had the dr pull it out, then , she basically starved herself to death. I got to bring her home 5 days before she passed. She could talk, move her arms. That day she actually lifted her arm and gave me a hug, later that night she passed. Jeff got up to get something to drink, mom had this bear on her stomach it would rise and fall with her breathing, it was doing that as he looked in, but coming back it wasn't moving he got me, i knew i wouldn't be able to get a pulse so I put my head to her chest and heard her last heart beat. She was peaceful, we kept her full of the meds, a little less when we wanted to talk. So here I am, a 51 year old who didn't deserve her, begging to grant her final wish. So Anything helps, I will show you receipts where all the money goes, or you can bypass this and call them directly , I cant put the phone number in But it is Memorial Gardens & Mausoleum in Campbellsville, KY 42718, where I pay $51 a month, when I get extra It will go to her first. I understand if you cant give, you might not have never heard of her, so just help me keep praying that He has a warm blanket around her body, for He heals all.
Thank you from a lost son
Kevin Herbig
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