Anna Cardwell and Eldridge Toney.Photo:Anna Cardwell Instagram
Anna Cardwell Instagram
Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’shusbandEldridge Toneyis opening up about a promise he made to his late wife.
Describing his wife’s final days, the reality star tells PEOPLE about Cardwell’s last wishes, which included a promise about her two daughters. Cardwell and Toney began dating in 2017 following Cardwell’s divorce from ex-husband Michael Cardwell, with whom she welcomed daughter Kylee Madison, 11. Cardwell is also mom to daughter Kaitlyn Elizabeth, 8.
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On Dec. 9, theHere Comes Honey Boo Booalumdied at age 29, less than a year after astage 4 adrenal carcinoma diagnosislast January. While announcing the death onInstagram, her motherMama June Shannonshared a family photograph and wrote, “With the breaking heart, we are announcing that @annamarie35 is no longer with us. She passed away in my home last night peacefully at 11:12 PM.”
“She gave one hell of a fight for 10 months she passed away with her family around her like she won’t and we will be updating y’all with more information as we get it today,” continued Shannon, 44.
Cardwell and Toney marriedin Wilkinson County, Georgia, on March 4, shortly after her diagnosis because they knew they “knew time was limited.”
This past spring, Cardwell celebrated her daughter Kaitlyn’s graduation from elementary school following her cancer diagnosis.
“I am one proud mama right now," the reality star wrote in aFacebook post, sharing photographs of herself and Kaitlyn, as well as others that included her other daughter, Kylee, and Toney.
Noting that she “can’t believe I am going to have a middle schooler and a second grader,” Cardwell continued, “Give me a minute while I go cry my eyes out.”
“I am so proud of my girls and everything they have accomplished,” she concluded the post, then tagging various members of her famous family, including her mother and sisterAlana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson— who justgraduated from high school.
source: people.com
