Despite winning $5,000 on a Spanish-language television show earlier this year, the parents of the area's quintuplets continue to deal with plenty of heartache. Not only is Virgie Davis and her family still at risk of losing their Carter County home, they've already lost something even more precious.
In June, just weeks before her first birthday, Addison, one of the quintuplets who suffered from fluid inside her skull, passed away from a brain malformation.
"I love the kids too and I've been friends with them for a long time, so going and seeing her in the casket, it was just a small casket," family friend Sonja Broyles-Simpson recalled. "She was in white lace and the father said, 'The Lord had taken a beautiful angel home.'"
Broyles-Simpson is now organizing a benefit for Davis and her family. Although Davis' husband won $5,000 on the Univision show Sabado Gigante back in April, he continues to struggle to find work and has fallen even further behind on his mortgage.
"I'm probably like eight months behind," Ojeda said.
According to Broyles-Simpson, the bank foreclosed on the family's home.
"I love them and I don't want them to lose their home," Broyles-Simpson said. "I do know that $5-6,000 would probably really, really help them to catch up."
According to the family friend, that money could be used to help refinance the family's home and give their surviving children the stability they need.
"They're trying so hard," Broyles-Simpson said. "I don't believe in just giving and giving to people, but I do believe in helping people who are trying to help themselves and they are. I just hope and pray that a lot of people will have a tender heart."
The benefit for Davis and her family is Sunday, August 29th at 6:00 pm at Valley Forge Free Will Baptist Church in Elizabethton.
According to Broyles-Simpson, who works for Modern Woodmen of America insurance agency, her agency will match up to $2,500 in donations for the family.
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