On Friday, December 20th, in the morning hours,  on M60 in Sherwood township Louie & Diana Marvin were hit head on! They were headed up to Battle Creek to get scans done for Louie's cancer & a trail blazer came around the curb, lost control and hit them head on. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time :( 

They had been married just shy of 62 years ♡ 

Diana has her upper and lower back broke, neck broke, ankel broke, multiple rib fractures and a punctured lung. And , although not literally - a broken heart. Diane is in a nursing home currently getting some physical rehabilitation. She can not put weight on her ankel. She had surgery on it the day of the accident, then went for a follow up January 7th. She goes back beginning of February for another follow up.  Until further notice, she is wheel chair bound. 

She goes this coming Friday for her neck & back fractures. I will post updates as soon as they come. 

Unfortunately, Louie did succumb to his injuries and he passed away in the early morning hours of January 9th, 20 days after the accident. His sweet girl Roxy laid with him as he passed ♡ Shane & I offered to bring him home 10 days prior so that they didn't go into debt going into a nursing home, since he was on comfort care at that point… him & Diane chose to take us up on that and as bittersweet as his passing is, we are so thankful he is no longer in the excruciating pain he was in. We are all devastated. He did live a long life of 87 years… but we always wish we had just one more day… he is so deeply missed. I will never forget him telling me “I've lived a really good life” 

So far, donations are reserved for Louie's final farewell that will be either later this spring or even potentially this summer. It will all depend on Diane's recovery. The expense for that will be I believe $1134. I do have some donations outside of this link that have been sent via venmo and mail. Thank you all so so much! 

Our IMMEDIATE need currently is a RAMP for Diane. It is about 1500 to start up a ramp rental (that includes the 1st months rent), and about 425 a month after.  We don't know how long we will need it, but it is for sure a definite NEED… If we get enough we can probably build one for a third of that, I am going to try to get a quote through home depot… and even if we had hands to help us build one, that'd be so amazing !!  

 Hug your grandparents. Tell them how much you love them ♡ Thank you ♡ 

Thank you so for everything ♡ you're all so amazing and even a simple share helps so much! 

Big hugs 

♡ The Marvin's - Shane & Nichole