Jill Duggar and her husband Eric Dillard have buried their stillborn daughter.
The couple, who announced that they had lost their ‘beautiful baby girl’ during the fourth month of pregnancy, held a funeral for the little girl.
‘Isla Marie, our girl. We will love you forever and keep you in our hearts until we have you in heaven. Buried 4/19/2024,’ the grieving parents shared Tuesday, alongside a photo of a white box covered with white and pink flowers and a stuffed bunny on a table in her church sanctuary.
A vase with pink roses and carnations was placed nearby.
The service’s program featured the photo that Jill, 32, and Derick, 35, used to announce the pregnancy loss with the baby’s name Isla Marie Dillard and the words “Planted on Earth to Bloom in Heaven” on The front.
Jill Duggar, 32, and her husband Eric Dillard, 35, have buried their dead daughter.
‘Isla Marie, our girl. We will love you forever and keep you in our hearts until we have you in heaven. Buried on 04/19/2024,’ the grieving parents shared on Tuesday
The inside of the program included the first four verses of Psalm 23.
At the bottom of the page, they added the meaning of her name: Isla ‘Dedicated to God’ and Marie ‘Desired by a son and loved.’
At the post-funeral gathering at their home in Arkansas, the couple set up a table with books and toys they had planned to share with Isla, had she lived.
The couple are parents to Israel, nine, Samuel, six, and Frederick, 21 months.
The couple has relied on their faith to get them through.
They shared more Bible verses and a sweet card from devastated Jill who wrote, “I carried you every second of your life.” And I will love you every second of mine.’
A pink heart-shaped cake was placed on the refreshment table.
They offered the other mourners a farewell souvenir, a paper heart filled with flower seeds that they hoped would sprout in Isla’s memory.
The couple shared photos from the funeral program of their daughter who was stillborn in the fourth month of pregnancy.
At a post-funeral gathering at their home, the couple shared more Bible verses and a note Duggar wrote to her daughter that said, “I carried you every second of your life.” And I will love you every second of mine’
Mourners receive a farewell souvenir, a paper heart filled with flower seeds they hoped would sprout in Isla’s memory.
Jill announced she suffered a heartbreaking death earlier this month, when she was four months pregnant.
She and her husband wrote an emotional message to share the news with their fans.
‘It is with great sadness that we announce the stillbirth of our beautiful baby girl, Isla Marie Dillard. “Jill was 4 months pregnant (due in August) when we found out our baby died in utero,” they wrote.
Duggar and Dillard added that they were particularly excited about the prospect of bringing a new member to their family.
‘From the moment we found out we were pregnant, we couldn’t wait to meet our baby. “Isla was very loved from the beginning and her three older brothers were very excited to introduce him to her world,” she wrote.
The couple concluded by thanking their longtime fans for their continued support as they dealt with the stillbirth of their son.
“We appreciate your prayers as we continue to grieve and recover from the loss of our little Marie Island,” they wrote.
Duggar and Dillard initially met in 2011 and married in June 2014.
Jill announced she suffered a heartbreaking death earlier this month, when she was four months pregnant.
Duggar previously had a miscarriage in 2021 with her son River Bliss.
The couple started a family with the birth of their nine-year-old son Israel in 2014, and welcomed two more boys named Samuel, six, and Frederick, one, in 2017 and 2022, respectively.
Jill and her family have distanced themselves from the Duggars in recent years and have not spoken to her parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar since her memoir was published in 2023.
Jim, Michelle, and their 19 children, starred on the TLC series 19 and Counting from 2008 to 2015.
Duggar previously had a miscarriage in 2021 with her son River Bliss.
Last year, Jill candidly told how she almost died bringing her son Samuel into the world after the then-baby suffered a stroke during childbirth.
She revealed the heartbreaking story of the birth of her second child in her extraordinary memoir, titled Counting the Cost.
She explained how she was rushed into surgery for an emergency caesarean section after a uterine rupture before discovering the newborn had also suffered a brain haemorrhage.
Newborn Samuel, who was “unresponsive at birth,” was transferred to a NICU at another hospital and Jill was not able to see him for the first time until four days later.
Duggar, 32, who grew up on camera on the TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting and other versions of the show, including Counting On, has been estranged from her parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar for several years.
There was no mention of Isla’s loss on the Duggar family’s Instagram account.
In her book, Counting the Cost, Duggar explained the ‘secrets and manipulation’ that occurred behind the scenes of the show and why they left the religious organization Institute in Basic Life Principles, in which she and Dillard, 35, had been indoctrinated. . .
The couple also told their story in the documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.
