Hello to anyone reading this right no. my name is Melvin Johnson, and I’m 26 years old and live in Valdosta Georgia I’d first like to start off by saying thank to anyone who is willing to help me, and to anyone who is reading this, but is unable to because of their own situation I pray you stumble right into a better one. I’m personally not the type of person to ever ask for anything, but i had to break down and do this for my grandmother who passed just two days ago for reasons unknown because detectives won’t tell me anything until someone talks to me in person, which honestly makes zero sense to me. She lives in new jersey with no family, and I live in Valdosta Georgia. Her only son who is my biological father has been in prison since i was seven years old, so sadly he couldn’t do anything even if he wanted to. I don’t even have any money to be able to catch a flight to see her or go get her belongings myself. I currently work at a Publix as a cashier and I’m working on getting my Georgia insurance license as well, but I never have any money after my pay periods because everything goes towards my bills and my child, which is why I’m working on getting my insurance license. I usually have about 120 to 100 dollars left over depending on the pay period, and that goes towards gas and whatever food I eat.
My grandma is originally from Valdosta also, but she moved to jersey when she was 19 to become a child therapist. she loved the city the entire time she was alive there, but she always would tell me she wanted to be buried close to her mom if she wasn’t married by the time she passed away, so I’m just trying to make sure I do everything I possibly could have, so I don’t feel too bad about not being able to make it happen. She wanted “Harrington funeral home” to do her service, and that’s going to cost 9,200$ for a full-service burial and that doesn’t include the embalming process. Before she even gets here apparently, she has to be embalmed before getting on the plane and that has to get done by ”Brown Funeral Home, plains field NJ”, and it’s going to cost 1,900$. it costs 250$ just to get her clothes for the flight over her to Valdosta. It costs 25$ for her death certificate, and it costs 1,550 to fly her here properly. I wanted to do a memorial service for the friends she made while living there also because a lot of them have never in life left NJ. My grandma expressed how she was always so happy to have them in her life especially since I was rarely able to visit her. That unfortunately would cost too much, and I personally don’t feel comfortable selfishly asking for more money.
this is honestly a lot for me to go through personally especially with no support system or financial help, but I’m willing to try everything i can to make this happen for her, and i greatly appreciate anyone who puts forward the effort to help me make that happen to. I also appreciate everyone who took the time to read all of this. My PayPal link is this. https://paypal.me/draco229?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US paypal.me/draco229