Kids & Family

Help An Asthma Victim's Family Pay for Headstone

Tyrone Tillman died of an asthma attack in February. His family wants help paying for a family plot headstone where he is laid to rest.

Bridgeport, CT, resident Tyrone Tillman suffered an asthma attack in the aftermath of a severe snowstorm in February 2013.

Because the streets were not sufficiently cleared, the ambulance, according to news reports, could not make it to his home.

Medics asked him to walk to a nearby street corner, but he died of the attack.

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He leaves behind two young children.

His sister, Jennifer Nicole of New Rochelle, is trying to raise funds for the purchase of a headstone for the family plot where is was laid to rest. So far $400 out of a goal of $3,000 has been raised.

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Here's part of the Nicole's note to donors and prospective donors on GoFundMe: "I am 100% sure that my brother and grandparents will be most appreciative of such an act of kindness We thank you very much! God bless you! ALL donations will go to the cause at hand."


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