{"id":13,"date":"2024-10-30T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2024-10-30T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:31:06","slug":"the-crew-of-little-people-big-world-is-crushed-by-tragedy-after-losing-loved-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/archives\/13","title":{"rendered":"The crew of Little People, Big World is crushed by tragedy after losing loved ones."},"content":{"rendered":"<header class='\"entry-header\"'>\n<p>The Roloff family, who rose to prominence on the reality show Small People, Big World, has lost several loved ones.\n</p><div class='\"entry-content\"'>\n<p>Regardless, the tragedy drew the family closer together.\n</p><p>Celebrity Matt Roloff paid poignant tribute to his father, Ronald James Roloff, who died earlier this year at 84.\n</p><p>Matt, 60, sent a touching tribute to his late father on Instagram.\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image' size-full><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"wp-image-37122\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/topradio.ro%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/03%5C/1-min-40-1024x653-1.jpg%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/topradio.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-min-40-1024x653-1.jpg' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"1024\"' height='\"653\"'>\n<p>\u201cA difficult week for the Roloffs\u2026 This evening, my father\u2026 affectionately known as \u2018papa\u2019 to his ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren, went home to be with his Lord and Savior, \u201cIn an emotional tribute, he stated.\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-15>\n<p>\u201cRon was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and many people\u2019s inspiration.\u201d\n</p><p>\u201cEveryone who met him knew he cared about people! His love for Jesus was obvious throughout his life, especially in his latter days.\u201d\n</p><p>Matt has written about his father\u2019s death from chronic lymphocytic leukemia.\n</p><p>Matt also experienced the death of a brother.\n</p><p>Matt had to bid farewell to his sibling far too soon after his father\u2019s death.\n</p><p>Josh Roloff died in 1999 at the age of 34.\n</p><p>He was diagnosed with severe heart and lung problems as a toddler.\n</p><p>Even decades after his death, his legacy lives on through his family.\n</p><p>They even named their book Little Family, Big Values after Josh, saying, \u201cA wonderful son, brother, uncle, and friend who was with us for much too little time in this life. We all miss you and think about you every day, and we hope to meet you again in the presence of our Jesus one day.\u201d\n</p><p>Amy\u2019s mother passed away.\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image' size-full><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"wp-image-37123\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/topradio.ro%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/03%5C/2-min-46.jpg%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/topradio.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2-min-46.jpg' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"602\"' height='\"798\"'>\n<p>Matt\u2019s ex-wife, Amy, sadly lost her mother, Patricia Knight, while celebrating her engagement to Chris Marek, her second husband.\n</p><p>\u201cThe last two weeks have been an emotional roller coaster,\u201d she said in 2019. \u201cBoth joyful and depressing. Chris proposed to me, and I was overjoyed.\u201d\n</p><p>\u201cVery sad because a few days later, my father informed me that my mother was in the hospital, and a day later, my sister informed me that my mother had died. On the 24th, she passed away. My heart was broken, I cried, and sorrow overtook me. I had no notion what emotions to expect.\u201d\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-6>\n<p>Unless, of course, it was before 2012. Isabel\u2019s brother, Tom\u00e1s Garrenton, will not have met Jacob.\n</p><p>Tom\u00e1s was sadly killed in a train accident.\n</p><p>Isabel, Jacob\u2019s wife, has vowed her child will know everything about his uncle.\n</p><p>\u201cHe\u2019ll know everything about you,\u201d she said a year ago. \u201cYou used to make me giggle whenever I wept. So, before you died, you composed some beautiful music. My son, Uncle Tom\u00e1s, will know everything about you.\u201d\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-7>\n<p>Isabel had also recently lost her mother.\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image' size-full><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"wp-image-37124\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/topradio.ro%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/03%5C/3-min-32.jpg%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/topradio.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3-min-32.jpg' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"609\"' height='\"492\"'>\n<p>Toni Garreton, Isabel\u2019s mother, died two years after her brother died.\n</p><p>\u201cGrief is an interesting beast,\u201d she wrote on social media at the time. \u201cThe pain can be so intense that you have to slam on your brakes while driving down a road in your hometown that you\u2019ve driven to many times with your mother.\n</p><p>\u201cAt the time, I think I could smell her scent. Please have a look at her laugh. All of this shows that I cared about her. I was acquainted with her. All of her memories returned to me because they were mine to keep. We were impenetrable. And this route I went with her is one I will return to, missing her each time.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>The Roloff family, who rose to prominence on the reality show Small People, Big World, has lost several loved ones. Regardless, the tragedy drew the family closer together. 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