Travis Barker‘s ex-wife Shanna Moakler, 48, is mourning the dying of her father John Moakler simply seven months after the lack of her mom, Gail. “It’s with nice unhappiness to share the passing of my dad, the one solace is understanding he’s with my lovely mom,” the mother of Travis’ two children Landon, 19, and Alabama, 17, started the heartbreaking Instagram post on Friday, Aug 11.
“I’m so grateful I obtained to have as a few years with my dad and mom as I did, and to have the time I had these final weeks with him. My father was a tremendous husband, physician and father he was greater than anybody may ask for,” she continued within the photograph submit. “I’ll maintain tight to the unbelievable life each my dad and mom supplied for me and the love and energy they instilled in me. The unwavering help at instances after I didn’t deserve it. I like you dad and my world won’t ever be the identical with out you in it. I respect all those that have reached out and despatched messages of help. Godspeed.”
Shanna’s first photograph was a candy selfie during which she snuggled as much as her aged father, a longtime dentist. One other photograph confirmed the father-daughter duo posing for a pic as she wore a glowing blue formal robe. A 3rd confirmed her smiling in a snap along with her dad at an occasion, and in one other, Shanna and her household, together with each dad and mom, posed for a gaggle snap. She additionally shared a pic of her dad at work with a affected person within the dentist’s chair, and at last, her dad and mom collectively as a younger couple.
The announcement comes simply seven months after the Jan. 4, 2023 dying of her mom, Gail, at age 77. She took to the identical platform on the time to pour her coronary heart out with a tribute. “That is the day I at all times feared, shedding my finest pal, help system and delightful mother,” she wrote partly, alongside a gallery of photographs of her mom. “I truthfully can’t discover the phrases to specific how loving, variety and wonderful she was.”
Although Shanna didn’t embrace any extra particulars about John’s dying, a supply revealed in 2021 that he had been hospitalized for a stroke and having COVID-19. He “lately had a stroke and is at the moment within the hospital in intensive care,” the insider advised PEOPLE for the April 27, 2021 report. “He has COVID on prime of that, and medical doctors have advised them he won’t ever stroll once more,” they added, noting that Shanna was “distraught” on the time.
Shanna and Travis, who’s now married to Kourtney Kardashian and anticipating a toddler along with her, have been married from 2004-2007.
