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In memory of

Cornelius "Pops, Buddy" Wayne Gibson

Tampa, FL

December 12, 1958 - October 15, 2022

Dec 12, 1958 - Oct 15, 2022

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I'm asking for help to pay for my father's cremation he was a great man and his oldest child and a daddy's girl no matter what or how old I ever became I was Daddy's Little girl. 2 years ago he was diagnosed with small cell carcinoma of the bladder and he beat that through radiation and chemo when you get a clean bill of health we traveled to Florida to go see his sister and my younger brother when he got there that night he fell and broke his right foot and leg he had to have a cast and a boot and rods and pins put in two days before he was supposed to get the cast removed he suffered a stroke and a heart attack the doctors put in the medically induced coma and I had to travel to Florida to make some very important decisions and luckily as my dad is a fighter he'll become that but he was paralyzed and had to learn feed himself again to try to walk again everything but he never learned to walk again he was pretty much bedridden for the last year and a half after that his help decrease so much because he was two states away he wasn't helped me enough to travel back home to South Carolina where I live. In October 13th the assisted living facility where he went called and told me his health was not doing well I spoke with his hospice nurse she told me the same thing on October 14th I spoke to my dad that evening told him he needed to get better and stronger so that he could come home just South Carolina with me he said okay I told him I loved him he said I love you too baby the following day the hospice nurse called and told me that my father had passed away at 7:30 p.m. my dad lived on social security I don't have very much money myself he was cremated because those were his wishes for myself to have some of his ashes my brother to have some the rest of them to be spread a little in the ocean and over my favorite place called pretty place it is an open air chapel in North Carolina. The remaining balance is cremation and funeral services is $2,005 and I need to travel from South Carolina to Florida to go pick up his remains since he is already been cremated they don't have much family neither it was really just me my dad my younger brother and my dad's two sisters they're older than him and they live on social security and takes everything that they have to live as well so I'm just asking you for anybody that has a little extra to pay it forward to help me get my father and follow through with his request anything and everything is much appreciated God bless you and thank you from the deepest part of my heart and soul. Contribute