Photo Credit: Summer Breeze, a/k/a The Midnight Writer
The Spiritual Essence of Gabriel captured at the drowning site.

We wish to express our sincerest heartfelt thanks to all who gave compassionately in this cause to pay for precious Gabriel's coffin. Thank God for providing the compassionate moving on your hearts. Today, we celebrate for a few moments. Then we begin the race to complete the fund raising for the cemetery so little Gabriel can be laid to rest and his family can begin their healing process.

The Coffin is completely paid. We still need over $1500.00 for the cemetery to cover the plot and the burial. Please stay with us until this is finished. Spread the word far and wide family and friends. We need you now as much as we needed you last week.

Send paypal donations to angelsforgabriel@gmail.com and mark them Angels for Gabriel Memorial Fund.

Today is the deadline to pay for the coffin. We still need a total of $650.00 so please keep on with your fund raising efforts. Donations can be made over the phone by credit card directly to the funeral home today. After this evening, please send all donations by paypal or direct bank deposit. The remaining funds raised will go to the cemetery for plot and burial services.

The funeral services take place Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 4:20 pm at :

Girdner Funeral Chapel
202 South Oregon Street
Yreka, California 96067
(530) 842-3434

The cemetery needs $1593.00 to cover the plot and the burial. The service in Arcata takes place on Thursday between 4-4:30pm.

Greenwood Cemetery
1757 J Street, Arcata, CA. 95901
(707) 822-1664.

Donations can be made directly to the cemetery over the phone by credit card, but the manager Charles Howard, would rather have all funds go to the Angels for Gabriel Memorial Fund for record keeping purposes. He prefers it that way although we won't discourage other donations.

HOW TO MAKE A DONATION

Hello everyone. We have good news and some news that is a little disquieting. Today is the deadline to pay for the coffin. Angels for Gabriel Memorial Fund just made a payment by paypal card to Girdner Funeral Parlor in the amount of $550.00. Thank you all for your donations and especially for your compassionate love.

Here is the breakdown on the coffin charges, as we understand them right now.

$460.00 was paid by credit card telephone payments by other benefactors who responded to our plea for help on the Angels for Gabriel Memorial Fund drive. Thank you's will be sent to all who gave and we are thinking of creating a memorial wall with names on the wall when we create the facebook account. I think that would be fitting to place the love associated with all who answered the call for young Gabriel to be laid to rest. Watch for announcement about that site. It will happen when we have a little breathing time.

That is a total paid on the coffin of $1,010.00 as of a half hour ago. It is 12:05 pm Tuesday, June 2, 2009.

That is the good news.

What is the disheartening news?

We still need $250.00 paid today by 5 pm Pacific Time. If you can, call the Girdner Funeral Home and do what you can by that deadline.

The funeral parlor gave us a little leeway on the balance still owed of $400.00. We are sweating this a little but we have not given up hope in the good graces and compassion of the people. Raven and I are still fund raising in Yreka to see what can happen. The folks at the funeral parlor are giving us a few days to pay the remaining but we want to pay it so the efforts can move to covering the burial plot and other funeral expenses. That is another $1500.00 rounded off.

As of this morning at 10:40 am the donations total for the coffin have reached the sum of $410.00. That is still far from our goal of the needed total to pay for it by tomorrow at 5pm. The balance for the casket is at $1177.00.

NEW UPDATE: A donation of $200.00 was received this morning at the Girdner Funeral Chapel. Thank God and bless all these compassionate givers. Total needed for casket is $977.00 by tomorrow at 5pm.

We still need $1602.00 for the burial plot and cemetery fees once the coffin is paid in full. Please stay with us.

HOW TO MAKE A DONATION

We'll be handing out flyers in Yreka today so please help us reach this goal so we can concentrate on funeral arrangements. God bless you and many heartfelt thanks to all of you who have so generously given.

We'll be updating the blog later with other news.

Angels for Gabriel