Tulsa woman reaches out for help for son's funeral after COVID death

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TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa country pistillate is grieving the nonaccomplishment of her lad and says she managed to find assistance to wage for the expenses that came with it.

"My lad was astir to decorativeness his welding degree, and helium was looking guardant to a agleam future, and now, it's ended," Raquel Valladolid says.

"We were each hopeful helium was going to propulsion thru and truthful was his doc and past helium made a crook for the worse, I'm sorry, helium needed to beryllium enactment connected oxygen and helium needed to beryllium enactment successful ICU and helium was intubated. After that helium didn't marque it, helium passed distant connected the 27th."

Vallodolid's lad Joseph was 29 years aged erstwhile helium died from COVID-19 and would person celebrated his 30th day connected the 7th of this month.

"I honestly haven't been capable to wrapper my caput astir getting [the funeral] done arsenic you truly want, it's conscionable that it's difficult," she says.

Paying for the $8,000 ceremonial is particularly hard for the household and lone adds to the affectional pain, Raquel says.

She got successful interaction with the 2 News Oklahoma Problem Solvers arsenic she looked to find a mode to wage for the expenses.

"It's precise confusing, and hard to header and woody with."

After getting successful interaction with the Problem Solvers, Joseph's household recovered retired however to use for assistance thru FEMA, which volition wage for funerals for COVID-19 victims.

As they spell thru the process, Raquel says they privation to stock their story, truthful different families tin woody with it too.

"My lad is 1 of the fortunate ones who didn't person to walk distant from COVID alone, you cognize truthful galore radical person suffered from COVID alone, successful the hospital, and they've ended their lives unsocial successful the hospital."

It could beryllium up to 90 days earlier the FEMA assistance arrives.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs much accusation connected getting assistance for the ceremonial of a COVID victim, you tin find it here.

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