Help Support Melissa's Daughters in Their Time of Loss

My name is Stephanie, my sisters and I recently lost our mom on November 18th, 2024. Our mother, Melissa Marie McKinney, born September 28th, 1977, leaves behind her three daughters. Myself (27oldest), my middle sister Victoria (23) and our youngest sister, Shiann (20). Melissa also leaves behind her grandchildren, King (4), Hayven (1.5) and Ca’Lani (1) as well as an angel grandbaby who is now reunited with her, and another babygirl who is expected to arrive in February of 2025.

Our mother was one of the most kind, loving, and understanding people we knew. Although our mother struggled with addiction throughout most of her life and ours, she never stopped loving us.. she made sure we all knew how much we meant to her and how we kept her fighting her demons that would eventually win the fight against her… There was only one thing in this world our mother loved more than us, and that’s her grandbabies. If you knew my mom, you know how much she absolutely loved to be a MiMi. All of her grandchild adored her, always wanted to be glued to her hip every time she came around.

A lot of people talked down on our mother because of her battle with addiction and thats because of what it caused her to do. Some things I’m sure she regrets and wish she didn’t do. However that doesn’t make her any less of a human, nor any less than someone’s child… any less than someone’s mother or grandmother. My sisters and I, are left with the unexpected responsibility of having to handle our mothers afterlife arrangements, as this wasn’t planned and we hadn’t been saving any money for this kind of situation as we had hoped our mother had a long time left with us on earth… she will no longer be present for her grandchildren’s milestones and achievements, the weddings of her other two daughters when our time comes, nor the births of her future grandchildren. We are deeply saddened by the loss of our mother on top of having to figure out how we’re going to be able to afford the cost of her being cremated, and put into individual keepsakes for her three children, as well as her three grandchildren she leaves behind. We’d like to be able to do it this way so we’ll always have a piece of her with each of us.

If you could please help us with the financial, emotional and physical support of losing our mother we’d greatly appreciate it. No donation is too small, we appreciate every penny towards our goal for the cost of our mother being at rest as well as a little bit for each of her children to have some type of cushion to be able to take some time to mourn the loss of our mother. And please, even if you can’t afford to donate, please help us by sharing… we all greatly appreciate you and your help. Thank you, and god bless