Triplets widowed dad is a Christmas heartbreak of a news story as 28-year old Andrue Smith, pictured below, is left to raise triplet boys alone, widowed when his wife Debbie died after falling ill and giving birth six weeks prematurely.

Triplets widowed dad Andrue Smith holds his three baby boys

Here’s the “Triplets Widowed Dad” news story from NBC’s KVOA affiliate in Tuscon, Arizona:

A Tucson father has three reasons to celebrate. Andrue Smith’s wife recently gave birth to triplet boys. But tragically, his wife died after the babies were born.

Andrue is now struggling to cope with the loss of his wife and raising the babies on his own.

The widowed dad’s three little boys, Legend, Tristian and Jaisyn were born six weeks premature, a week ago today.

“All I wanted was a son,” he told us.

You can see the love in Andrue’s eyes. Love, and sorrow, because his wife Debbie will never see her babies.

Andrue says, out of the blue, his wife got deathly ill. Doctors saved the boys, but couldn’t save her.

“My wife’s heart had stopped beating. Her body suffered and her brain suffered… It’s not the kind of thing people will recover from.”

So Andrue made the difficult decision to discontinue life support.

“It’s going to be hard, very hard. I can’t imagine a life without her.”

Numb, this 28 year old single father of three is trying.

“My wife, I know she’d expect me to be strong and she’d want me to take care of those kids.”

Andrew has a full-time construction job, but questions whether he earns enough to afford childcare. And if he quits his job, how will he pay his mortgage?

“Absolutely anything anybody can help out with or contribute, I’d be very happy to accept anything. I’ve got my babies, my three boys to worry about, and that’s what’s keeping me strong.”

Andrew calls them daddy’s little army.

If you’d like to help the Smith Family, you can drop off items such as diapers, clothes and car seats at Victory Assembly of God Church, at 2561 W. Ruthrauff Rd., Tucson AZ, 85705-1853.

A memorial fund has been set-up as well. If you’d like to donate to that, just go to any Wells Fargo Bank and donate to the Debra L. Smith Family Memorial Fund.

If you are wiring money from outside the Tucson area, please tell your local Wells Fargo banker to send your donation to account number 8453610233 through routing number 121000248.

Please do whatever you can this Christmas holiday season to help out the widowed dad and three young triplets who will never know how much their mother loved them…

And that’s the sad Christmas story of the triplets widowed dad.

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