Kathy Lynn Roberts

Hello there. My name is Kira Roberts. My mother, Kathy Roberts, passed away a week ago after a very prolonged and painful battle with metastatic colon cancer. Her stated goal at the beginning of this - when she was first diagnosed with terminal cancer - was to stay alive as long as possible, for me.

She wanted to raise me to be a healthy, happy, self-sufficient adult. I believe that she did all she could, and I know I can make it going forward - all because of her and what she gave me. She spent 16 years devoting everything to me after my father passed away. Now I want to devote everything to her.

I have made the arrangements she wanted made for her postmortem care, but they were very expensive. I'm afraid that at this time I don't have any option other than to go around with my hands out begging, to have the money to safely care for my mom and carry out her final wishes for her body's care, or pawn some of the jewelry I bought her over the years. I do not want to do this - but it may become all that I can do.

I am asking for help. I wasn't very good at asking for help when she was alive, neither was she - she felt like something scraped off someone's shoe, she once told me, and I spent so much time trying to convince her that she was so much more than that. I think at the end she recognized that she was loved and cared for and warm, and that is all I wanted for her. I just want to finish giving her the last of what she wanted for life - to be warm and safe at the end, to be cremated (so she "wouldn't have bugs crawling over her corpse", as she put it many times), and for me to have a happy, healthy future serving God.

Thank you for all that you give - any that you give - even if it's just a tiny amount, it will help. I hope tremendously that I can raise enough to care for her last wishes. Thank you so much for reading, and please remember that a bright spot is missing from the world now. I hope you got to know her, whoever is reading, because she brought light to literally everyone she encountered and made an impression on peoples' hearts.

For Mom, please help. Please remember her love and help me give her the last of the things she wanted, so it's all taken care of.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, if only for reading,

Kira Roberts, daughter of the late Kathy Roberts