Restaurant server helps mother of murdered children pay for funeral costs

WATCH: A server at a Lethbridge restaurant is hoping she can help the mother of Clarissa English and brother Dakota were stabbed to death in April. Megan Lawlor was serving their mother when she felt compelled to help. Kimberly Tams reports.

Lethbridge – It’s been just over two months since Laurie English’s son and daughter were murdered. 24-year-old Clarissa English and her brother, 18-year-old Dakota English, were found brutally stabbed to death, along with their friend 27-year-old Kyle Devine, in their west side home on April 28th.

Laurie says she had not ventured into the public since losing Clarissa and Dakota until this past Friday, when she says she met her guardian angel

“It was really neat how we connected. I feel like she was an angel sent to me,” said English.

Megan Lawlor was serving Laurie English and a friend at Firestone restaurant in Lethbridge on Friday evening. Towards the end of the night, Lawlor felt compelled to help after Laurie mentioned she still owes money to the funeral home.

“ I felt like it was meant to be. She was my last table of the night and it wasn’t like I recognized her. It was right before I gave her the bill I thought, ‘That’s the lady from the news’,” said Lawlor.

“I was so heartbroken. It would keep me up at nights so when I had an opportunity to help, I really wanted to.”

That help has come in the form of many people’s generosity. Lawlor started a crowd funding campaign on “GoFundMe.com” and started by donating all of her tips from that night – over 200 hundred dollars – to help with the burial costs.

“I called Cornerstone (funeral home) to find out how much was owing and it was just over 25-hundred dollars, and I thought it was so doable so I started the GoFundMe page,” explained Lawlor.

In just over two days, Lawlor’s campaign succeeded, raising more than the 26-hundred dollar goal.