Hello. My name is Dustina. Almost 35 years ago my father Micheal passed away unexpectedly from a swimming accident. He was celebrating Labor Day with my mother and family and dove into a pool where he hit his chin on the bottom of the pool and broke his neck. He was paralyzed from the neck down and eventually passed away from a blood clot shortly after his accident. He was young and newly married to my mother who was also 6 months pregnant with me. At the time of his passing my mother and family could barely afford to pay for his funeral so unfortunately my father was buried without a headstone. I am trying to raise money to buy him one. I’m a single mom of two so money is very tight but this is something that I have been wanting to do for years. I want to be able to go to my dad’s grave and visit him and leave flowers like everyone else. I never got to meet him but from what my family has told me he was a great man and was so excited to become a dad and was very much in love with my mother. I want nothing more than to be able to give him this even if he isn’t here to see it. No one should be placed in the ground and just forgotten about. Please help me make this happen for myself, for my mother, and for him. Thank you all and god bless.
Organized by Dustina Alexander
Lafayette, IN