Texas woman might lose home after losing her husband

It whitethorn look similar an mean house, but for 59-year-old Kathy Lozano, it represents truthful overmuch more.

“I’m inactive pinching myself. I can’t judge that this is ours,” said Lozano.

After years of fixing credit, paying debts, and bills, Kathy and her husband, retired Army Veteran Joe Lozano, built their location successful 2018.

“Single parent for my full life. It was beauteous overmuch flat to apartment, wherever the rent was cheap. Whatever municipality the rent was inexpensive in,” said Lozano’s girl April Overland.

“It took maine 17 years to get here, and this is ours everlastingly home. This is wherever we’re going to walk the remainder of our lives,” said Lozano.

Joe and Kathy lived present for 3 years, but their imagination abruptly ended past period erstwhile the mates was hospitalized with COVID-19, days earlier they were scheduled to get vaccinated.

42-year-old Joe past abruptly passed away.

“It was a phenomenal marriage. We were unneurotic for 20 years. It’s hard not having him here,” said Lozano.

While she deals with losing the emotion of her life, Kathy is besides having a hard clip recovering, adjacent breathing.

“Crying takes my oxygen away, truthful it’s hard to breathe. I can’t adjacent mourn him decently due to the fact that I can't cry,” said Lozano.

Kathy said it could instrumentality months to get her lungs backmost to afloat strength. Until past she’s can’t work.

Joe didn’t person beingness insurance, truthful she’ll inactive person to wage the mortgage, aesculapian bills and more, by herself.

Now, her girl April Overland is calling connected the assemblage to assistance out.

“We’re inactive unsure what status benefits and societal information benefits she’s entitled to. We don’t cognize what her income is going to be. So paying disconnected the location would beryllium ideal,” said Overland.

Overland said paying disconnected the location volition outgo astir $160,000. While that’s steep, they’re hoping to get enactment to support Kathy and Joe’s imagination location successful the family.

The household says they've raised implicit $1,000. If you'd similar to donate, click here.

Jarell Baker astatine KXXV initially reported this story.