Memorial benefit helps support local family who lost toddler
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(WSIL) A fundraiser to help pay hospital bills for a Carbondale child left in a coma after a drowning accident is now an effort to cover funeral expenses as well.
Parents Timothy Beckstead and Nicole Markham say three-year-old Makaylea Jean Beckstead is the second youngest out of five kids and describe her as shining light. Always happy, always making people smile, the couple remember. Always loveable.
In June, Makaylea had been playing outside and accidentally drown in the swimming pool. The toddler was then transported to a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.