A touching wish from late wife to husband's new family

(CNN) -- Brenda Schmitz knew she wouldn't live to

watch her four boys grow up. Diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer,

she was told she would die within months.

In September, David asked

Jayne Abraham to marry him. Brenda's friend pulled through, and the

station recently received the letter.

'About a week and a half

ago, an anonymous letter was sent to Star 102.5 Christmas Wish. We've

been granting Christmas Wishes for over 20 years and I've never read a

letter like the one I received from Brenda,' station manager Scott Allen

says. 'Everyone, no matter the age, was moved.'

'I tried to quiz them to

ask who it was from, but they wouldn't tell me anything besides it was a

very personal wish,' David said.

On Thursday, radio host Colleen Kelly read Brenda's letter to David.

'My reason for writing is

this. I have a wish. I have a wish for David, the boys, and the woman

and her family if she has kids also. I want them to know I love them

very much,' Brenda wrote in the letter. She added that she wants them to

'always feel safe in a world of pain.'

David said it took him

some time to comprehend Brenda's letter, but he wasn't shocked by it. 'I

was surprised, but in a way, I also wasn't. This was Brenda. She had so

much forethought before she died. I always love to tell the story.

Brenda and I talked before she passed. She told me to meet someone that

would love the boys and treat them like her own. I asked her how I'd

know when I met that person. Brenda said I would know because she'd be

there.'

The rainbow

When Jayne and David began dating, she asked David the story behind a rainbow photograph in his youngest son Max's room.

'Brenda and Max's song

was 'Over The Rainbow.' They sang it together all the time. The day

Brenda died, she passed away at 7:07 a.m. We hadn't had rain for five

weeks straight -- and out of the blue, a double rainbow, as bright as

can be, stretched across the sky for miles. The local meteorologist said

the rainbow was an anomaly since we hadn't had any rain. I knew it was

Brenda.' David recounts.

Jayne's voice cracks

when asked what her first thoughts were of Brenda's letter. What meant

the most to her, she says, was Brenda's saying 'she loved me.'

The radio station will

send the family of eight to Disney World, with all expenses paid. 'We've

never taken a family vacation and this will be wonderful,' Jayne said.

'It will allow us to create a bond amongst all of us that we haven't

necessarily, had a chance to do quite yet. We are always coming and

going, so this gives us time to sit back and enjoy each other.'

The family plans to take

the trip when the stars align in everyone's schedule -- two adults, one

son in college, four teenagers, and 4-year-old Max.

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