Young Vallejo family loses a daughter and likely their homeLender rejects Rep. Miller's efforts and their appeals
By Tony Burchyns / Times-Herald
Posted: 05/20/2011 03:43:44 AM PDT
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But the eviction couldn't have come at a more deeply emotional time for the Vallejo family -- on the heels of the death of their eldest daughter, Michaela, who succumbed to heart failure on April 27.
A first-grader at Mare Island Elementary School, she lived 1 1/2 years after her second heart transplant, and would have been 7 this month.
Born with a congenital heart defect, Michaela was featured in a July 8, 2008, Times-Herald article about her first transplant surgery at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Her second transplant was in August 2009.
Now the family, which has two other daughters, ages 2 and 4, must grieve and move at the same time. The bank has refused their requests -- and those of U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez -- to postpone the eviction.
Facing an order to appear in court Tuesday, the family says it will vacate their historic Virginia Street house by the end of next week.
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Michaela Kost, 6, center, is shown
dressed in her Halloween peacock costume
from last year with her sisters, Merril, 2,
left and Marley, 4.Link:
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