I have a prayer request for my sister Martha. and my brother Tom. Our father passed away, left this planet... died. on the 23rd of December.
I have a prayer request for my sister Martha. She is a year younger than me. I am the seventh child of ten, and the second daughter.
she is the eigth child, and third daughter of a family of seven boys and three girls. Our father died on the 23rd of December.
He was being cared for in a nursing home for the last year or two, in southern Michigan. Martha was the one child who was able to goto visit him on a weekly basis. She collected beer bottles from the ditches along the sides of the road, and took on an extra cleaning
job, so that she could afford the gas money to do this. It was a 1 hour drive each way for her.
Martha wanted to have our dad stay with her, and she would have been able to care for him at her home, but.. she was not allowed to do that.
One of our older brothers had stepped in, and convinced or coerced or however one does this sort of thing: had gained power
of attorney over all of our fathers affairs, and had gotten himself set up as executor over my father's living estate. He was living in Lansing Michigan, and placed our dad in this home: which was "nice" as homes go.. in terms of accomodations.. and was also quite
expensive.. and was situated more than an hour's drive from most of the 'kids' and grandchildren: all of the immediate family, except
from him. The home was about ten minutes away from his house. And he stopped visiting and even made it impossible for one or
more of the other children to be able to go and see their dad by placing them on a list with the nurses and staff to refuse entry to them..
He sold the family home, and threw away the furniture and my dad's clothes; and basically brutalized our brother T.R. (Tom) who had
remained with our dad until the time that this other brother took him away from his home, and soon then after placed him in the nursing home.
Martha has had to stand as a go-between, trying to keep communications from both sides. She needs the support of our prayers, as
she mourns her loss: the void of no longer being able to visit him, the sorrow of not being able to be there when he passed, the sorrow
that he had to live and die among strangers, along with all the impact of the insane cruelty and derision and hurt that the executor is
reaking upon his brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews.
Thank you for your help.
