NASHUA – Kyla Muldoon will soon be back in Nashua to be buried, after family, friends and the local community responded in a big way to help her family raise the money to bring her body home from Egypt.
“We’ve earned the amount needed to bring her back,” Muldoon’s stepsister Candice Lewis said Thursday.
Muldoon, 19, a 2011 Nashua High School South graduate, died this week unexpectedly in Cairo, Egypt, Lewis said. She had been living with her mother, Carol Record, and stepfather, Scott Record, and volunteering at the international school where her parents taught called Cairo English School, since Thanksgiving.
An initial estimate to fly Muldoon’s body home from Cairo from an Egyptian-based mortuary company required the family to find a minimum of $3,500 to get her through customs at Boston Logan International Airport, Lewis said.
When the family opted to use an American-based mortuary company instead, it raised the tab to $4,700, she said, and they created a crowd sourcing page at FundRazr.com to get the help they needed to fund it.
Two days later, the family had far exceeded the goal listed at the top of the page “Help Bring Kyla Muldoon Home”; 90 contributors had donated $6,800 as of Thursday afternoon.
“Kyla would be so happy to know that she is loved so much by all of you,” someone posted on the related Facebook page “Bring Kyla Home.” “On behalf of the family, thank you so much for all your support.”
But the Muldoon family is still seeking assistance to bring the family together in Nashua to give their sister and daughter a proper memorial service and burial, Lewis said.
“Basically, we’re still kind of plugging along,” Lewis said. “We kind of got an updated idea on what everything’s going to cost in total.”
On Thursday, Lewis, who created the FundRazr page, increased the amount the family is seeking to $12,000 in order to fund funeral home services, flowers, a bereavement reception, and to cover the flights of both the Records from Egypt and Muldoon’s sister, Shaelyn Muldoon, who lives in New Mexico, Lewis said.
“In the past 24 hours, within that time frame, everything has been secured,” Lewis said. “We know the exact shipper bringing her back, the funeral home bringing her back, everybody who’s transferring her.![]()
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