Back in June 2024, Utah mother Erika Diarte-Carr started a GoFundMe page for her own funeral. Tragically, she died in October two years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Her cousin, Angelique Rivera, shared the heartbreaking news on Facebook on Oct. 12. She wrote, “She has joined her mother Sylvia, her Brother JJ, her uncles Chava & Loui on the other side. She fought a long and hard battle. She was strong and held on as long as she could for her babies.”
Erika Diarte-Carr, who raised over $1 million on GoFundMe, has died from cancer.
As a single mother, Erika Diarte-Carr raised her two young children, 7-year-old Jeremiah and 5-year-old Aaliyah, in Ogden, Utah. She described them as her “whole life, light, and soul,” emphasizing that they motivated her to keep fighting.
On May 7, 2022, Erika was diagnosed with stage 4 small cell lung carcinoma after doctors discovered multiple tumors had metastasized throughout her body, as detailed on her GoFundMe page…