Duanna Johnson’s Family needs donations for funeral.

The balance for Duanna Johnson’s funeral is $1195 and the funeral home is requiring Mrs. Skinner (Duanna’s mother) to pay it by tomorrow (11/14). The cost is a hardship, so we are asking anyone who can to donate. Please send any donations to:
N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home
12 S Parkway W
Memphis, TN 38109

If you want any clarification from NJ Ford, here is their contact number: (901) 948-7755.

Please forward this to as many people as you can!! Thanks!

Please donate or spread the word; if you can't afford yourself to donate but can put this someplace where people who can might read it, please put it there.

According to spoggly, out of state checks won't work (due to the length of time it would take for them to get there) unless you overnight them and the funeral home says that credit cards would be ideal; however, barring either of those options, it may be good to just call the funeral home and ask that they delay payment due date until it's possible to raise more funding.

Update:

sin_nombre: I called them earlier and they said that checks and money orders would have to have something indicating that it's for Duanna Johnson's funeral on the memo line. I know overnighting things is expensive, though.
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I'm sorry for this being the last minute, but I just talked to her mother today and that is what the funeral home said about payment. She went there today to plan the service and they were going to charge $3195, but then dropped it back to $1195 as long as it's paid by tomorrow.


spoggly: OK, I guess overnighting is the way to go, then. They said checks were out due solely to the fact that the deadline is tomorrow and sending them out of state would take too long, but if overnighting would work I guess that would be that.

Maybe we could try and organize something where someone writes a check and overnights it and gets reimbursed, just so the majority of the money could be donated instead of spent on shipping? IDK.

Update 2:
Subthreads of interest.

The behavior of the funeral home is really weird regarding payment; there's also this discussion of one of the remarks in the comments re: this post.

But according to jame_alec's friend, who works in a funeral home, for at-cost funerals like this one, up front payment is typical. jamaesi, who works at a cemetery, corroborates and provides additional information.

Update 3:
From sin_nombre, A PayPal account has been set up for donations for her funeral; any funds collected over and above the goal of $1195 will be given to Ms. Johnson's family.

UPDATE 4: It is no longer crucial to donate money. So far TTPC has collected $5100.51. If you still want to donate, have at it, but keep in mind that any excess collected will be given to Duanna's mother to cover any incidental expenses (travel, floral arrangements, etc.).

Thanks!