Mama June Shannon‘s daughter Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell‘s closing moments earlier than her dying have been revealed by her husband.
Cardwell, who died final week aged 29 following a stage 4 adrenal carcinoma analysis in January, was surrounded by family members who had rushed to her facet to say their reluctant farewells.
“Everybody was crying and freaking out, as a result of all of us knew what was taking place,” her husband, Eldridge Toney, informed Individuals of his spouse’s closing moments.
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“I did my greatest to be calm for her. I rubbed my fingers by way of her hair, held her hand and informed her it was going to be OK,” he continued.
“I used to be holding her hand when she took her closing breath.”
Toney and Cardwell, who had been collectively since 2017, married in March after Cardwell acquired her analysis.
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He informed the publication he vowed to “do proper by” her daughters – Kaitlyn, who was born in 2012, and Kylee, who was born in 2015 – as his spouse’s dying want was “for her women to develop up realizing who their mom was”.
Toney additionally informed Individuals the couple “by no means needed to know” how a lot time Cardwell had left, although they “knew time was restricted”.
Cardwell, who’s the older sister of 18-year-old actuality star Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson, was formally farewelled on December 13.
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Followers have been invited to pay their respects to the late actuality star throughout a particular one hour public visitation window at Williams White Columns Funeral House in Gordon, Georgia.
Her dying was introduced by her mom, 44-year-old actuality star Mama June Shannon, in an Instagram put up shared on December 11.
“With the breaking coronary heart, we’re saying that [Cardwell] is now not with us,” Shannon wrote alongside {a photograph} of the household.
“She handed away in my house final evening peacefully at 11:12 PM,” Shannon continued.
“She gave one hell of a battle for 10 months she handed away together with her household round her like she will not.”