Friday, August 2, 2013

REST IN PEACE MICHAEL

IT IS WITH A HEAVY HEART THAT I AM WRITING THIS POST, MY HUSBAND MICHAEL LEFT US ON JULY 25 HE IS NOW WITH HIS MAKER AND WE HAVE AN ANGEL WATCHING OVER US.  WITH MICHAEL HE WOULD WANT US TO CELEBRATE HIS LIFE.  YES WE DO FEEL THE LOSS GREATLY BUT BOOT AS WE CALLED EACH OTHER WAS SO HAPPY THAT HE WAS ABLE TO SEE SOME MANY FIRST HIS SON'S WEDDING THE BIRTH OF HIS TWO GRANDCHILDREN MICHAEL AND NICHOLAS.  HE WAS ALSO HAPPY THAT HE WAS ABLE TO TOUCH AND HELP MANY PEOPLE,  THANK YOU FOR MAKING HIM SO SPECIAL IN YOUR LIFE AS YOU WERE ALL SPECIAL IN HIS. 

 WHO WAS


MICHAEL HEBRANKO JR

 
Born in Brooklyn he became a very successful business man where he employed many local residents, he was an enrolled agent with the IRS, H&R Block tax preparer and instructor, Weight loss motivator, Eucharistic Minister and Religious Education Instructor at Our Lady of Miracles.

Michael was an advocate for the Obese and founded OPIN a not for profit organization dedicated to teaching and helping people that suffered from this disease and also educating the public on the disease.  His whole life he suffered from this disease and he still went out every day into the word helping others.  There is a fund being set up in Michael’s name donations can be made to the Obesity Research Center for care and research specifically for people like Michael.  Donors may go to:
https://supportstlukesroosevelt.org/support-us
The online donation form includes an area where the donor can indicate who the gift is in memory of.  In the "Comments" box, donors should state that their gift is for the Obesity Research Center.

To make a gift by mail, donors can make out a check to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.   They should include a note stating that it is for the Obesity Research Center, in memory of Michael J Hebranko Jr. 

 Checks should be mailed to:
St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center
Development Department
555 West 57th Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10019

A funeral mass was held on July 30 at Holy Child Church in Staten Island and a burial followed at Resurrection Cemetery.
love you all stay strong and keep fighting
YOU ARE ALL WORTH IT
MADELAINE