‘Why Didn’t He Say Goodbye?’ Son of Pastor Andrew Stoecklein Asks After Being Told Father Died

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(Photo: Instagram)The late Pastor Andrew Stoecklein and his three sons.

A week after his suicide, the three sons of Pastor Andrew Stoecklein of Inland Hills Church in Chino, California, have finally been told he died and his oldest is “incredibly heartbroken.”

Stoecklein’s widow, Kayla, revealed on Instagram how it “crushed” her to tell her three boys that their father wouldn’t be coming home again. Her oldest son, Smith, who recently started pre-k, she said, asked her heartbreaking questions like, “Why didn’t he say goodbye?”

“Telling the boys yesterday was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. It crushed me. Our oldest son Smith had the most difficult time processing everything. He is such a smart boy and is incredibly heartbroken,” she wrote.

“The types of questions he asked really shocked me. ‘Are you and daddy still married?’ ‘Did the doctors know daddy was going to die?’ ‘Why didn’t he say goodbye?’ ‘What is my life going to be like without daddy?’

(Photo: Facebook)The late Pastor Andrew Stoecklein, 30, of Inland Hills Church in Chino, Calif., was pronounced dead on Aug. 25, 2018 after a suicide attempt inside the church a day earlier. He had struggled with depression and anxiety. He appears in this photo with his wife Kayla and three sons.

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