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9-Year-Old Who Held A Bake Sale For Dad’s Funeral Is Touched By People Who Cared [Video]

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  • Kaylei Miller’s dad died in a car crash and the family is in need of funds for his funeral.
  • She decided to sell red velvet cakes with sprinkles and cars lined up to buy them.
  • Kaylei said she cried “because of all the people who actually cared.”

When Kaylei Miller’s dad, Jason Barton, died in a car accident, he did not have life insurance and had minimal savings left.

A relative wrote in a GoFundMe page set up for the family, “Death of our parents is not something we think about when we are kids and it is just heartbreaking knowing these kids will be without their father. This pandemic has taken a huge toll on all of them and then this happens. Jason was such a loving father and husband.”

To give her father a memorial service, Kaylei Miller thought of having a bake sale to raise the necessary funds. “I just wanted to raise money so we could have a funeral for my dad,” she said.

She made red velvet cakes topped with sprinkles and sold them at their local Dairy Queen in Fairdale.  On the day of the sale, cars lined up to buy the baked goods with one couple even shelling out a thousand dollars for the family.

9-Year-Old Girl Holds Bake Sale to Help Pay For Father’s Funeral: https://www.gofundme.com/f/um99z-funeral-expenses

“The pandemic won’t stop us from caring about other people,” said the couple, Jack and Debbie. Jack related that his wife also lost her father while in fourth grade and she remembers what it was like. “We knew the kind of pain the young lady was going through and we wanted to help.”

With the show of support given to their family, Kaylie said that it made her to be grateful. “I cried yesterday because of all the people who actually cared.”

As of this writing, the GoFundMe page has already raised more than $40,000 to which Kaylie’s mother Whitney, is very thankful.  Their target was only $3,000.

They never expected people whom they never even met could care so much. She wrote, “We are all so heartbroken and so very lost but your donations and your prayers are what’s going to help us get through this terrible situation and we will live on in his memory thanks to all of you.”

Source: People

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