[Ammi]

…this is very, very tragic…she’d apparently had a kidney transplant last year and I read that she spoke out to help others struggling with difficult times and issues in speaking of her own ‘ups and downs’ as she called them…they’d been together for 20 years, since he was 17yrs old…in 2010, James lost his father who had struggled with an alcohol addiction through his own life…and just after his father’s death, he also lost an older brother and 21yr old nephew…all very, very sad…their daughters now having to struggle with the loss of their mother…