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Woman opens wedding chapel to heal herself after spouse dies
Posted2/14/2021 7:00 AM
YORKTOWN, Ind. Last April, Kelly Brickley and her husband, Richard, were sitting down to dinner, turning on the news to hear about COVID-19, which had recently begun to spread in Indiana.
The couple, who had been married for two and a half years, had just closed on a Yorktown home. Richard had been preparing a ham dinner in a slow cooker all day, and was excited to share it, Brickley remembered.
The 56-year-old set his wife s plate down along with a glass of wine, instructing her to go ahead and eat as he went back to prepare his plate.
“The next thing I know, he tapped me on my shoulder, and I turned around and said, Richard?′ I thought he was choking,” Brickley said. “He was having a massive heart attack. He died right in my arms.”
If you had told Brickley then that she would be living in that new home, without her husband, but with a wedding chapel in her backyard 10 months later, she wouldn’t have believed you.
But months after her husband died, Brickley was able to begin healing, with “Brickley’s Little Wedding Chapel” becoming her reason to get up in the morning.
“Here we are in February, and he’s gone, and I own a little wedding chapel,” Brickley said. “It’s just really strange. It’s almost out of my control, but I’m rolling with it.”