My Beautiful Daughter Toni Left 5 Young Children When She Passed Away In Her Sleep On The 11th of May 2022

On the 11th May 2022, my grandson found my daughter Toni lifeless in bed and tried desperately to wake her until he finally realised that she was gone.😪

Toni was just 36 and left 5 young children, the youngest just 2 years of age. She passed away in her sleep and neither doctors nor coroners can tell us a reason as of yet. My grandson was incredible, rather than get upset immediately, he thought of his younger siblings and got them up, fed and dressed and proceeded to push the pram containing his 2 year old sister around to the home of a family friend. I am ever so proud of him.

This is the hardest thing we have ever had to deal with as a family and to lose a daughter is devastating. I am however very concerned that my grandchildren need to grieve and to have closure, learn to one day accept what has happened if that's possible. I have never asked anyone for anything in my life which makes this so much more difficult, I am a proud woman and have worked all my life but I don't have access to the sort of money that a funeral costs, let alone a headstone. But I have had to swallow my pride and make this page because I want the children to be able to say goodbye to her on the day and then to have a place to visit and grieve after the funeral.

This is a last resort, we have tried everything. We have tried to get money to pay for this from everywhere and this is our last hope. Every single penny that we hope to raise will be used exclusively for the reasons it is donated and if there is anything left over it would be put into trust accounts for the children or returned to the donors.

I'm so sorry to have to ask this, but please help me.

Deborah Duncan-Curtis.