Please keep Leanna and her family in your prayers.
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For my money, "Big Mike" checks out. I wouldn't fear contributing to the GoFundMe for her family.
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thanks for posting the link.
As FBBO members let us not forget one of our own and her family in their time of need. It seems the gofundme is legit and so far way under funded.
Not everyone can donate, but if you can please do.
You don't need to use PayPal or one of those systems, a credit card works and choose $0 towards gofundme.
We as a Mopar community are saddened and stunned by the loss of one of our own. All I need to know is she was Mopar family. If we can pass this on to our sister sites, it will be appreciated.
I've never got to meet her, and always thought someday I'll have her do some art for me. I waited too long.
Not everyone can donate, but if you can please do.
You don't need to use PayPal or one of those systems, a credit card works and choose $0 towards gofundme.
We as a Mopar community are saddened and stunned by the loss of one of our own. All I need to know is she was Mopar family. If we can pass this on to our sister sites, it will be appreciated.
I've never got to meet her, and always thought someday I'll have her do some art for me. I waited too long.
We don't know for sure if the Go Fund Me is legit or not. No answer from Mallory (daughter) or Big Mike (who started the GFM)
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That thread has been taken down. Unless you know something we don't, no positive information about the validity of the GFM in her name has surfaced. I want to help out just like the rest on these forums but I sure don't want to see dozens of members get taken because it isn't legit.
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So sorry, not fair.
I might be able to find out with an hour or to of searching.
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Here's the gentlemans' Facebook page who started the GoFundMe:
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I've corresponded with him prior to donating and decided to trust...
I'm also told by the organizer that Billys' bank account is actually the one tied to the GoFundMe.
Perhaps that can be verified?
I've corresponded with him prior to donating and decided to trust...
I'm also told by the organizer that Billys' bank account is actually the one tied to the GoFundMe.
Perhaps that can be verified?
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Further message from Michael Patterson:
He tells me the donations so far have been instrumental in paying for some of the cremation costs.
He also recommends that anyone with questions about the validity of the GoFundMe contact Billy
directly via the business phone line: 731-613-9192.
Lastly, he also is telling me Billy is having an understandably tough time with all this, so if you need
to call, please be gentle.
There are no memorial/funeral plans in concrete as of yet.
He tells me the donations so far have been instrumental in paying for some of the cremation costs.
He also recommends that anyone with questions about the validity of the GoFundMe contact Billy
directly via the business phone line: 731-613-9192.
Lastly, he also is telling me Billy is having an understandably tough time with all this, so if you need
to call, please be gentle.
There are no memorial/funeral plans in concrete as of yet.
Thank you Ed. I reached out to Mallory tonight as well.
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I'll assume she's in a similar boat as Billy, God love them.
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I've donated. I just wish I could have had her do a project for me instead.
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Cross-posting to the fundraiser (it's a sticky now) that has been verified to be on the up and up.
Post in thread 'Fundraiser for Leanna' Fundraiser for Leanna
Post in thread 'Fundraiser for Leanna' Fundraiser for Leanna
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I'd like to see the threads for Leanna combined into one to make it easier now and in posterity...
In the meantime, I was contacted by a gentleman today who had just heard about Leanna and
wanted to copy/paste something I'd written to a forum she frequented, one I'd never heard of before.
Of course I said "sure" - like we own anything we write online anyways, right? - and didn't think anything
more of it, other than how polite and pleasant the conversation had been.
Then, I started getting notices from the GFM site - it seems as folks on that forum of which he spoke started
to see the notice he had posted, they started stepping up and for whatever reason, I was somehow getting tagged??
Then it finally occurred to me...
The link I had given him for the GFM page was one assigned to me by GFM when I went there to copy/paste it to
him - and while that was the furthest thing from my mind when I did it, I'll admit it's gratifying to know I inadvertantly
had something to do with others both learning of her passing and subsequently choosing to help out, too.
Found another forum that looks interesting to peruse as well.
Maybe if some others found it in their hearts to share a link to the GFM, more people will find out about Leanna and
choose to help as well, who knows?
Current: 68 donations, $4,905.00
In the meantime, I was contacted by a gentleman today who had just heard about Leanna and
wanted to copy/paste something I'd written to a forum she frequented, one I'd never heard of before.
Of course I said "sure" - like we own anything we write online anyways, right? - and didn't think anything
more of it, other than how polite and pleasant the conversation had been.
Then, I started getting notices from the GFM site - it seems as folks on that forum of which he spoke started
to see the notice he had posted, they started stepping up and for whatever reason, I was somehow getting tagged??
Then it finally occurred to me...
The link I had given him for the GFM page was one assigned to me by GFM when I went there to copy/paste it to
him - and while that was the furthest thing from my mind when I did it, I'll admit it's gratifying to know I inadvertantly
had something to do with others both learning of her passing and subsequently choosing to help out, too.
Found another forum that looks interesting to peruse as well.
Maybe if some others found it in their hearts to share a link to the GFM, more people will find out about Leanna and
choose to help as well, who knows?
Current: 68 donations, $4,905.00
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