‘Very Overwhelming’: Community Helps Teen Homeowner After Mom’s Sudden Death

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Jeff Osuna has a imaginativeness for this location with caller overgarment and caller plumbing.

“It conscionable takes immoderate time, a small spot of elbow grease,” said Osuna.

It’s a batch of enactment and this isn’t adjacent his house.

“Just walking into the location seeing the concern that this young 19-year-old miss was surviving in, it was daunting,” said Osuna.

That miss is Mackenzie. Mackenzie’s Mom, Lisa, passed distant abruptly aft a changeable successful April. The teen was thrust into adulthood overnight.

“She would speech to everybody, that was my mom. And I was the quiescent girl she would assistance bring retired of my shell. I miss her truthful much,” said Mackenzie.

Mackenzie’s beingness was turned upside down successful an instant with her mom’s aged location present abruptly her responsibility.

“It is similar precise overwhelming to beryllium a homeowner astatine 19,” said Mackenzie.

But she recovered herself surrounded by implicit strangers acceptable to remodel her location for caller memories. Jeff saw Mackenzie’s location successful hopeless request of repairs and upgrades truthful helium stepped up. and truthful did the community.

“It brought tears to my eyes erstwhile they said we’re present due to the fact that it’s a bully happening and I thought it was too,” said Osuna.

“It’s an astonishing feeling. I was not expecting the full assemblage to travel unneurotic and assistance me,” said Mackenzie. “I’m conscionable ace grateful, I’m overwhelmingly grateful.”

“Her parent was a precise sweet, saccharine woman. She’d travel retired and greet america each the time. She’d propulsion successful our garbage cans erstwhile we were gone,” said Osuna.

Good deeds are present coming afloat circle, making the aged saying ‘it takes a village’ ringing true.

“She would conscionable beryllium precise blessed that her girl has radical taking attraction of her adjacent erstwhile she’s not here,” said Mackenzie.

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Jeff is simply a firefighter with the Cosumnes Fire Department. Several of his chap firefighters are besides donating their clip and supplies. They’ve besides acceptable up donations online to assistance Mackenzie get furnishings and commencement her beingness arsenic a assemblage freshman.