Balloon Released At Father’s Grave Made Its Way Back To Family’s Home

On Father’s Day, Sandy Seibold and her daughter Saige visited the Oklahoma gravesite of Johnny, Sandy’s husband and Saige’s father, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in May at the age of 43, KFOR reports.

“He was diagnosed in September”, widow Sandy Seibold told NBC station KFOR.

“Saige, 13, composed a handwritten note at the gravesite in which she explained that her father had recently died and asked whoever found her message to contact her. She tied the letter to a balloon that said “#1 Dad” and then bundled it up with seven other balloons.

The release was rocky; ribbons tying the balloon together got caught in a power line.

“I just remember praying, ‘please God”.

The grieving family of a cancer victim released balloons with a “letter to heaven” attached from beside his grave – only for the note to land at their home 25 miles away just hours later.

When Saige’s balloon release didn’t go as planned, Seibold said she prayed that they would fly on the second try.

Fortunately a gust of wind dislodged them and they drifted away. Sandy said. “I think I started crying”. “It felt like a message from him”, says Sandy.

Mrs Seibol, who lives in Cement, Oklahoma, said she finds it hard to believe that it was not a sign from her husband.