The Alabama toddler pulled from a pool while celebrating her second birthday last week has died, her mother said Monday.
“Sleep sweet my beautiful angel. We only had two years with you, but they were filled with the happiest moments of my life. I will carry you with me in my veins until the day I see you again, my love,” wrote Rebekah Satterfield, the mother of 2-year-old Violet Mae Satterfield, on social media.
Violet Mae and her family were celebrating her second birthday July 1 in Arab when she sneaked into a swimming pool without her floatation devices, her family said.
She was flown to Children’s of Alabama for treatment.
“Thank you to all of her prayer warriors,” Rebekah Satterfield wrote, calling the tragedy “the hardest week of our lives.”
Violet Mae’s organs will be donated, her mother said, “as we want to give someone else a chance at saving their baby.”
The family has not announced plans for services because of the donation waiting period, but asked that her funeral be filled with purple.
“Wear purple for my baby while we celebrate her short life. Daddy and I love you so much Violet,” Rebekah Satterfield wrote. “Until we meet again.”
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