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In memory of

Kathy Murray McDowell

Thomasville, NC

May 27, 1967 - April 26, 2025

May 27, 1967 - Apr 26, 2025

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Kathy passed away unexpectly & suddenly at 57. She was a beautiful young lady, very special. Her & my son had 3 boys. Their son Ronald ( Ronnie) G. McDowell shot himself on my back porch 10/6/18! I am in a wheelchair as I can’t walk due to nerve damage in my neck. I was the one who found him! He was my pride & joy , he had Tourrent’s & I thought he’s asleep , I couldn’t find his puppy who usually stayed with him, put my arms around him, told him I loved him, tried to wake him up! I thought he’s in shock, I called 911 & his dad who was on dialysis for stage 4 renal failure . They told me my precious grandson was gone. This is his Mother! The love of my son’s life, my son now is in stage 5 Renal failure. He after over 3 yrs on dialysis couldn’t take it anymore & quit. Thank God he’s still on this earth, it’s hard his kidneys are both nearly dead functioning at 11% now & his kidney Dr said he’s got to stay on the special diet to survive & drink only certain water ,I’ve tried my best with this! Now with Kathy gone, his goal in life is to try & get her buried beside their son! It’s been a week this evening & he & his youngest son ( who has only a 3rd grade education due to his psycological situation) are now left to bury her since what her Mom thought she could do with the car fell through! The bank is going to repo it in 3 days , unless the $10,000 is pd off on it & we can’t do it! They won’t even let anyone refinance it m it’s been tried, her mom & CarMax thought it could be sold to them for $17,000 , pay loan off use the $7,000 on her funeral, but bank said no! Money first, CarMax won’t do that, title first! So now no one is helping my grandson bury his Mom except my son & I ! Please even if it’s just a dollar , help us bury this young lady ( who now like her son, is gone way to soon! I’m not able to even walk, my son has to take me to the Dr in his 1987 old van, his bones are decorated bad from the dialysis he’s only got his left leg to walk on his other is in a thing called an I Walk due to burns on foot causing his big toe & then half his foot to be surgically removed, yet he tries to open the heave foldup metal ramp I have , put it on his 1987 van as neither of us can afford a newer one let alone a handicap on. My car you can’t carry it on is a 2002 ford Tarsus. But each time I watch him open the ramp, try to push my electric wheelchair up it & the remove the ramp , I see the pain he’s in & I cry, so I’ve in last 2 yrs cancealed all but 1 Dr appt. It’s more than I can bear watching him hurt trying to help his Mom! Now he’s doing or trying to do( carrying off peoples junk, even one man gave him a old car junked to sell) he goes from early am to late pm trying to get every dime he can to bury her beside their son! Please, please help, you might not think a dollar will help but it does! Please I didn’t ask for help ever in my life, not to bury my precious grandson ( I’m still paying the loans off I got to bury him ), I love this young lady as my own, she’d help me in the house & God knows it’s hard to keep a house clean, cook, wash dishes & clothes when you can’t walk, from a wheelchair , plus I fell & fractured my hip , have so much physcially wrong as I’ve had Rheutoaid arthritis since a teen , so her helping me was a true blessing! Kathy deserves to be laid to rest beside her son! Please help us , please! If you can’t even give $1 then more than that is to keep my son & grandsons in your prayers please! Contribute