Christmas Wish Fulfilled: Heartbreaking Video goes Viral as Radio Station Reads Letter from Brenda Schmitz to her Husband 2 Years after her Death

News outlet BuzzFeed.com reported yesterday on a story about a mother, Brenda Schmitz, who on her death bed wrote a letter making a final wish for her family. Since then the Youtube video of Schmitz’s husband at the radio station as her letter is delivered and read some two years after her death.

This emotional story hits home this holiday season as the letter was sent because Brenda Schmitz was a fan of the radio station’s Christmas Wish program. Diagnosed with end stage ovarian cancer, Schmitz wrote a letter containing three wishes and asked a close friend to wait to mail the letter only after her husband had fallen in love again.

Watch the Brenda Schmitz Christmas Wish Youtube Video below:

So far the Schmitz video has received nearly half a million views on youtube. As you will hear in the video, Schmitz was a wife and mother of four boys and just a month before she died in September 2011, she wrote a letter to the Des Moines, Iowa, radio station “Star” 102.5.

Every year, the station takes submissions for Christmas wishes, granting a select few. After receiving the letter from Brenda, the station brought her husband David into the studio and surprised him on air by telling him about the letter and reading it to him.

“When you are in receipt of this letter, I will have already lost my battle to ovarian cancer,” Brenda wrote. “I told [my friend] once my loving husband David had moved on in his life and had met someone to share his life with again, to mail this letter to all of you at the station.”

As you see in the video, with not a dry eye in the studio, the radio station, with help from many sponsors, granted all of Brenda’s wishes for her family, including her husband’s new found love.

The three wishes included a day of pampering for David’s new love saying, “She deserves it, being a stepmother to all those boys.” “Make her smile and know her efforts are truly appreciated from me.”

Second Schmitz asked for her family to take a “magical trip”, which was granted in the form of a family vacation to Disney World with all expenses paid. The third wish was for a night out full of drinks, food, and fun for the doctors who had cared for Brenda at Mercy Medical Hospital.