Hello friends and family. It is with a bittersweet sorrow that I ask for your kindness, prayers, and help in sharing this fundraiser, and if you are able, help with funeral donations for my mom, Debra Baker-Brott. She is living her last days, and every bit helps us give her the farewell she deserves. She will soon be reunited with the love of her life, my dad, and we want to honor her wishes and lay her to rest beside him.
My mom, Debra Baker-Brott, is 63 years old. She is a beautiful woman who has dedicated her entire life to caring for and nurturing her family. Her faith has always been the center of her life. She loves Christ, and she has spent her life trying to follow Him and live her life the right way.
She married young and spent 32 years devoted to my dad and to our family. When my dad passed away on January 29, 2015, she never stopped loving him. She has spent the last 11 years still devoted to him and still very much in love with him. This year would have been their 43rd wedding anniversary.
My mom loves her family more than anything. She is a grandmother to 14 grandchildren, and she loves every one of them with her whole heart. She loved making crafts like wreaths and cross stitch and other handmade things that she would give to people. She loves gospel music, going to church, and visiting with people. She loves gardening and growing beautiful things. She could take a cutting from almost any plant and grow something new from it.
In 2022, my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer. About a year and a half later, the cancer returned, and recently we learned that it has spread to her brain. She is now on hospice.
My mom moved in with my sons and me late last year, and caring for her has been one of the greatest blessings of my life. This time with her has humbled me, taught me patience, and taught me what love looks like through actions and sacrifice. This time together has been an incredible blessing to all of us, and time that I will always be grateful for.
When my dad passed away, we buried him in Arizona and prepared the grave so that my mom could be buried next to him someday. That is her wish, to be buried beside my dad and near our family. Because of this, we are coordinating between a funeral home in Iowa and a funeral home and cemetery in Arizona and arranging transportation between the two states.
We are trying to plan ahead and take care of these arrangements now so we can focus as much as possible on being together as a family and supporting my mom during this time.
My sister, Victoria, and I are working together to take care of our mom and make sure her wishes are carried out. I am my mother’s caregiver and legal guardian, and I am responsible for making all arrangements and covering the costs related to her funeral, burial, and transportation. This fundraiser has been created to help with those specific expenses.
If you are able to help, whether through a donation or by sharing this fundraiser, we are deeply grateful. If you are not able to donate, your prayers for my mom and our family mean just as much to us.
Thank you all for taking the time to read this.
