Heartbroken 9-Year-Old Sells Cookies to Fund Father’s Funeral After Tragic Car Accident

Heartbroken 9-Year-Old Sells Cookies to Fund Father’s Funeral After Tragic Car Accident
Courtesy of Whitney Barton
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In the wake of her father’s death in a fatal car accident, a Kentucky fourth-grader is using their shared love of baking to help raise funds for the funeral. To Kaylei Miller, aged 9, her father was “everything.”

Kaylei and her mother, Whitney Barton, of Fairdale in Louisville, Kentucky, lost doting dad Jason Barton in a car accident on Jan. 3. Three days later, Kaylei and her family set to work, making enough goodies to hold a bake sale.