For Justmelaura's funeral expenses

PeggyC

Apr 11, 2015 at 7:19am

I love that. I hope it is VERY helpful to the family. You can't cure sorrow with money, but you can take the sting out of all the other crap that comes with the sorrow.

sac

Apr 15, 2015 at 4:56pm

Still getting a few donations!

sarahzm

Apr 28, 2015 at 11:00am Edited

Tommy Nichols just posted this on Facebook and I thought it would be nice to share it here:

I posted the following on the gofundme site, as a way to say thank you, and realized I should share it here as well, in hopes that all who gave will see it...

Dear 359 amazing folk who have contributed to the Laura Nichols Fund, started here by Laura's dear friend Mary Marzano: You are angels, you are heroes, you have no idea...when I went to set up a funeral for Laura at the funeral home on April 3, I learned that I needed $3500. for a deposit. I'm ashamed to tell you, I onl...y had $1,100. to my name at that moment. But the funeral home folk graciously agreed to accept $1,000. as a deposit, once they realized that funds were pouring in thru this site, created by Mary...and because of your generosity, I was able to completely pay for the funeral, cremation, hospital and ER and ambulance costs, and many other details of daily left that Laura was able to leave behind, for a far better place... I'm part of a little program that meets around town (I'd tell you about it, but we're, umm, anonymous...) and there's a promise that we cling to that says "you will SUDDENLY realize that God is doing for you what you could not have done for yourself." I remember the moment I SUDDENLY realized that God was using all of you help me pay for something I never anticipated having to pay, in the midst of great agony and pain, having to help 3 young adults grapple with the sudden shocking death of their mother, and a good buddy deal with the death of the woman he thought would be his partner for the rest of his life... God truly, suddenly, did for me what I could not do for myself, and He used each one of YOU to do it...How does it feel to be God's hands and God's feet and God's LOVE in action??!! Cause that's you... All I can say, from the bottom of my heart, and on behalf of my children, Laura's brother and sisters and family, and Dan, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! Tommy Nichols Maplewood, NJ

Tommy, You are so very welcome - every time I stepped into the Blue Plate I felt that Laura and Dan were god's hands and feet and love. So this is just some of that coming back.