How Martial Arts Helped This Peekskill Family Overcome Tragedy

During the summer of 2015, Ron Paul, a beloved husband and father, broke his ankle. What should have been a relatively minor injury instead lead to multiple surgeries and infections that eventually lead to Ron’s death.

Around the same time, Deborah began taking karate classes at Go No Sen in Peekskill. She says she began to fall in love with martial arts after watching her four daughters—Julia, Olivia, Veronica, and Isabelle—take classes.

In a Go Fund Me page set up by Go No Sen to help ease the financial burden the Paul family faces, the page’s administrator Lauri DeLuca McCauley writes: “Throughout this whole ordeal, Deb's hard work and efforts never faltered.  She was always running from one place to another. Taking Ron to a doctor's appointment, volunteering at a Girl Scout event, working here at the dojo, training here at the dojo, making sure her girls got to class, etc.”