Fre's Funeral Details - Please help if you can

Friends of Fre,

Thank you again for your outpour of love and memories about our dear friend. I’ve heard the family has appreciated your support.

Jon Aminoff, Raul Llanes, Rani Sitty, Robin Chang, and Skye Girardin (Fre’s fraternity brothers) visited the family yesterday in National City. The house was filled with people supporting Fre’s mom and extended family. They enjoyed having Fre’s friends tell stories about his life away from home. They also got the details for the funeral. It will be held at:

Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary Chapel
5050 Federal Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92102
Saturday, September 23 at 11 AM
Public visitation begins at 10:30 AM

The family would be extremely grateful if you were able to attend. They can also use support in covering the associated costs. In total, expenses will likely exceed $10,000. Let’s do our best to help Fre’s family. We are all at different points in our lives, so please give what you can - $20, $50, $100, $500. To do this, we have established the following ways for you to contribute:

1) Delta Upsilon Fraternity has set up a memorial fund to assist the family. If you are in Berkeley (or the Bay Area), please stop by the house to deliver your contribution. DU is located at 2425 Warring Street (between Channing and Dwight). Derick Sohn is the treasurer of DU and will be managing the fund. Please put your contribution in an envelope and write “Fre Hindeya Memorial Fund” on the front. Then, ask for Derick when dropping off your contribution, and any active brother will make sure the envelope gets into his hands. DU will aggregate these contributions and deliver one large check to his mother at the funeral on Saturday. All contributions received after Saturday will be aggregated and sent weekly to his mother. Contributions can be made in cash or checks can be made out to “Delta Upsilon Fraternity” with “Fre Hindeya Memorial Fund” written in the memo. If you cannot stop by in person, you can mail these checks to: Fre Hindeya Memorial Fund, c/o Derick Sohn, 2425 Warring Street, Berkeley, CA 94704.
2) If you would like to make an immediate contribution by credit card, we have set up a Paypal account. You can make your contribution to the email address: david@mobilize.org. If you do not have a Paypal account or have trouble making a contribution, please email me at david@mobilize.org and I’ll walk you through the process. All donations made by this Saturday will be given to Fre’s mom at the funeral. All donations made after this Saturday will be sent with the weekly checks from DU.
3) If you would like to send a check directly to Fre’s mom with a personal note, you are more than welcome to do that too. We have set up the first two ways to help reduce the workload on the family, but we are certain she will appreciate anything you would like to send directly. Fre’s mom’s name is Abeba Hindeya and her address is 912 East Second Street, National City, CA 91950.

Finally, I wanted to thank those who uploaded digital pictures on the Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208917003). We will print out these photos and bring them to the funeral. However, we would still like to get any other pictures that you have out there. If they are in digital format, please upload them to the Facebook group or email them to david@mobilize.org or jon.aminoff@gmail.com. If you have hard copy photos, please send them directly to Fre’s Mom.

Okay, I think that’s all we have set up here. If anyone else is organizing anything, please email me, post in on the blog, and we’ll try to get the word out to everyone. There are a bunch of people helping out in lots of ways, and I know it makes me realize how amazing Fre is to have so many people love him and want to help him and his family. I feel honored to have shared many years with Fre and have his beautiful soul touch my life. Thank you for sharing in this with me.

With love and compassion,
Dave

Blog: http://rememberfre.blogspot.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208917003