Help Us Honor Faviolas Life & Final Wish

Please help my family and I give our aunt, Faviola Lorena Duarte Motta, a place to rest in peace. Her two wishes before she passed were to see her sister, my mom, who was also diagnosed with stage 4 cancer just one month before our aunt's cancer was diagnosed as terminal, and to be buried next to our beloved grandmother who rests at Holy Cross Cemetery in Los Angeles. Our aunt left Los Angeles and moved to Arizona many years ago to support her husband's career, so they relocated their small family to a different state away from any family. Within the next 10 years, her husband had left her and her children alone in a different state, and alone fighting cancer with her young daughter and son. My aunt had a stroke in September 2024 and was shortly diagnosed with stage 4 Glioblastoma. She wasn’t able to communicate what had been happening since the stroke because it impaired her mobility and speech, and then the cancer treatment had left her mute and completely bedridden until her last breath. When communication between our aunt and our family decreased in September, our family knew something was wrong. My sister and I traveled to Arizona, only to find out our aunt was diagnosed as terminal and had less than a month to live. To honor her wishes, we united our aunt and cousins with our mother and all our family again, but sadly just to share our last moments together, where we cared for our aunt, fed her, changed her, read to her her favorite children’s novel “Charlotte's Web,” shared beautiful memories of our family together, and held her hand, always… but sadly

there is never enough time with the people you love…

Between grieving our aunt and trying to fund her funeral, and grieving our mother's illness and trying to fund her treatment, this has been the most difficult, unbelievable, and numbingly painful experience our family has ever gone through and is still going through.

How do we grieve and process this difficult loss while also remaining strong and present for our mother, who is also grieving and suffering from the same sickness that took her baby sister from her? We leave that to God…

And as far as death and life go, “money” decides whether we can give our aunt a place to rest next to our grandmother, our aunt's second wish, and whether we can fund our mother's treatment for her cancer as well…

As a family, reaching out to you and your family, we ask for any support—prayers, donations, anything helps…

My aunt loved to read. Her home was filled with books enough to build walls. Her favorite author was Stephen King. Her favorite flowers were sunflowers. She loved butterflies. She loved to love—she was always giving to those in need, even if she was also in need; she never judged a book by its cover, she had the warmest personality that made anyone feel instantly comfortable around her; she loved the simple things in life: music, singing, reading, learning to cook, spending quality time with her children and family, watching movies, and taking afternoon walks with her dogs when the sun was going down. She had a wholesome laugh full of joy, she laughed with her whole body… she was much like a sunflower herself. We love and miss her every day… She was only 56.

✨ Faviola Lorena Duarte Motta ✨