Anna Cardwell and Eldridge Toney.Photo:Anna Cardwell InstagramAnna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell’s husbandEldridge Toneyis reflecting on how his life has changed since herdeathlast weekend after amonths-long cancer journey.“It keeps hitting me again,” he tells PEOPLE of his grief. “It’s going to be a lot different.”Toney admits that the thought of “going back to our home with no Anna and without the girls,” has been “hard to process.” Seeing rooms left empty in the home they once shared and waking up in the morning to find Cardwell missing has been “very hard.”“It is going to be very lonely,” he adds. “It’s getting harder.”Anna Cardwell and Eldridge Toney.Anna Cardwell InstagramCardwell died at age 29 on Saturday, less than a year after she was diagnosed in January with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma.The reality star’s motherMama June Shannon, 44, shared the news of her death with their fans in a statement shared toInstagram.“With the breaking heart, we are announcing that @annamarie35 is no longer with us,” she began the caption of her post alongside a family photograph. “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 will be updating y’all with more information as we get it today,” Shannon continued.“We love y’all and continued prayers and thoughts for our family doing this difficult time,” she concluded.Anna Cardwell.Anna Cardwell/InstagramOn Monday, PEOPLE confirmed that Cardwell and Toneygot marriedMarch 4 in Wilkinson County, Georgia.The couple began dating in 2017 following Cardwell’s divorce from ex-husband Michael Cardwell, with whom she welcomed daughterKylee Madisonin 2015. Cardwell was also mom to daughterKaitlyn Elizabeth, born in 2012.“We decided to get married after we received the stage 4 diagnosis,” Toney explains to PEOPLE. “We didn’t get married because she had cancer. We just sped up the process because it was always something we planned to do.”Anna Cardwell and Eldridge Toney.Anna Cardwell InstagramNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Though the couple initially wanted a “long engagement and a big wedding,” they decided to make things “official” as they “no longer had the luxury of time.“Despite knowing their time was “limited,” Toney says he and Cardwell asked the doctors not to inform them on the time she had left.“We never wanted to know,” he adds.
Anna Cardwell and Eldridge Toney.Photo:Anna Cardwell Instagram
Anna Cardwell Instagram
Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell’s husbandEldridge Toneyis reflecting on how his life has changed since herdeathlast weekend after amonths-long cancer journey.“It keeps hitting me again,” he tells PEOPLE of his grief. “It’s going to be a lot different.”Toney admits that the thought of “going back to our home with no Anna and without the girls,” has been “hard to process.” Seeing rooms left empty in the home they once shared and waking up in the morning to find Cardwell missing has been “very hard.”“It is going to be very lonely,” he adds. “It’s getting harder.”Anna Cardwell and Eldridge Toney.Anna Cardwell InstagramCardwell died at age 29 on Saturday, less than a year after she was diagnosed in January with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma.The reality star’s motherMama June Shannon, 44, shared the news of her death with their fans in a statement shared toInstagram.“With the breaking heart, we are announcing that @annamarie35 is no longer with us,” she began the caption of her post alongside a family photograph. “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 will be updating y’all with more information as we get it today,” Shannon continued.“We love y’all and continued prayers and thoughts for our family doing this difficult time,” she concluded.Anna Cardwell.Anna Cardwell/InstagramOn Monday, PEOPLE confirmed that Cardwell and Toneygot marriedMarch 4 in Wilkinson County, Georgia.The couple began dating in 2017 following Cardwell’s divorce from ex-husband Michael Cardwell, with whom she welcomed daughterKylee Madisonin 2015. Cardwell was also mom to daughterKaitlyn Elizabeth, born in 2012.“We decided to get married after we received the stage 4 diagnosis,” Toney explains to PEOPLE. “We didn’t get married because she had cancer. We just sped up the process because it was always something we planned to do.”Anna Cardwell and Eldridge Toney.Anna Cardwell InstagramNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Though the couple initially wanted a “long engagement and a big wedding,” they decided to make things “official” as they “no longer had the luxury of time.“Despite knowing their time was “limited,” Toney says he and Cardwell asked the doctors not to inform them on the time she had left.“We never wanted to know,” he adds.
Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell’s husbandEldridge Toneyis reflecting on how his life has changed since herdeathlast weekend after amonths-long cancer journey.
“It keeps hitting me again,” he tells PEOPLE of his grief. “It’s going to be a lot different.”
Toney admits that the thought of “going back to our home with no Anna and without the girls,” has been “hard to process.” Seeing rooms left empty in the home they once shared and waking up in the morning to find Cardwell missing has been “very hard.”
“It is going to be very lonely,” he adds. “It’s getting harder.”
Anna Cardwell and Eldridge Toney.Anna Cardwell Instagram
Cardwell died at age 29 on Saturday, less than a year after she was diagnosed in January with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma.
The reality star’s motherMama June Shannon, 44, shared the news of her death with their fans in a statement shared toInstagram.
“With the breaking heart, we are announcing that @annamarie35 is no longer with us,” she began the caption of her post alongside a family photograph. “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 will be updating y’all with more information as we get it today,” Shannon continued.
“We love y’all and continued prayers and thoughts for our family doing this difficult time,” she concluded.
Anna Cardwell.Anna Cardwell/Instagram
On Monday, PEOPLE confirmed that Cardwell and Toneygot marriedMarch 4 in Wilkinson County, Georgia.
The couple began dating in 2017 following Cardwell’s divorce from ex-husband Michael Cardwell, with whom she welcomed daughterKylee Madisonin 2015. Cardwell was also mom to daughterKaitlyn Elizabeth, born in 2012.
“We decided to get married after we received the stage 4 diagnosis,” Toney explains to PEOPLE. “We didn’t get married because she had cancer. We just sped up the process because it was always something we planned to do.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Though the couple initially wanted a “long engagement and a big wedding,” they decided to make things “official” as they “no longer had the luxury of time.”
Despite knowing their time was “limited,” Toney says he and Cardwell asked the doctors not to inform them on the time she had left.
“We never wanted to know,” he adds.
source: people.com
