Simone McCray with her two children
By Alice Kenny
Hours after learning of the death of her children’s father, Simone McCray said, she called his cellphone, thinking he might answer.
Once reality sank in, the hard part came. Mr. Williams had left behind a son, Micah, then just 3 months old, and a daughter, Leyoura, who was 4 and who would need to be told of her father’s death.
“Word had gotten back to our pastor,” Ms. McCray recalled. “He asked if I wanted him to be there when I told her. I said yes. So he came when she got out of school and he more or less told her. I could not. …”
Read their story published in The New York Times and learn how Catholic Charities affiliate Grace Institute stepped in to help.