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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Friends, family, and adjacent those who met Joshua Ray Farmer successful passing are stepping up to assistance aft helium was critically injured successful what his household says could beryllium the hardest conflict of his life.
Joshua Farmer is the proprietor of High Sierra Tattoo successful Clovis. He was progressive successful a superior clang connected Saturday, March 22, that near him hospitalized successful captious condition.
His sister, Rashel Garcia, says she remembers getting a telephone from an creator astatine her brother's store and knowing instantly that thing was wrong.
"I answered it and I couldn't formulate sentences for a bully fractional hour," Garcia said. "I was retired of there, booking my formation to Fresno."
Garcia traveled from Oregon to beryllium astatine her brother's broadside arsenic helium laic successful the infirmary pursuing the grueling crash. Garcia says the household has seen their just stock of tragedy, but she believes her brother's communicative is not meant to extremity conscionable yet.
"I person nary uncertainty successful my brother, helium was the strongest idiosyncratic I know," Garcia said. "He's not done here. So I person nary uncertainty that he's going to propulsion done and he's going to amusement everybody."
Garcia says her brother's beingness is filled with illustration aft illustration of his generosity and willingness to assistance others. She says she's grateful to everyone who has shown their enactment for her member and fixed backmost to him successful his clip of need.
"He has specified a community, I truly consciousness it," Garcia said. "It's a broad of prayers, and we're each wrapping him up successful it. I deliberation that's what's going to assistance him recognize that helium is not done here."
Farmer's employees, Amber and Peaches, accidental the store hasn't been the aforesaid without Farmer's enactment and care.
"He's a immense family, man," Amber said. "I don't cognize if I've ever worked alongside different idiosyncratic successful a presumption wherever they were my manager oregon my boss, wherever they person cared that deeply."
Peaches says with Farmer presently retired of committee and indisposed, she feels it's important to enactment the aforesaid accidental helium did erstwhile others needed his help.
"Josh was ever the archetypal 1 to travel retired for everyone else," Peaches said. "He ever says that helium has to nonstop retired the bat signal. So we conscionable anticipation we tin bash that for him arsenic well."
Farmer's friends and household person organized aggregate fundraisers to payment Farmer straight - and his family, who person travel from retired of authorities to beryllium with him.
On Saturday, March 27, High Sierra Tattoo volition big a flash tattoo benefit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. astatine the store located astatine 601 West Shaw Avenue. Local tattoo artists Jacob Spivey and Woody are acceptable to collaborate for the event.
The Central Valley Blood Center volition big a humor thrust connected Saturday, April 12, astatine the Jenny Eller Donor Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Those incapable to marque it to either lawsuit are encouraged to donate online to the High Sierra Tattoo shop, Farmer's family, oregon Farmer directly utilizing the links attached.
Garcia says she greatly appreciates immoderate assistance anyone tin give.
"This is going to beryllium the biggest fiscal load he'll ever see," Garcia said. "He's going to request each the assistance helium tin get."
