Heidi Stevens: After losing their son to suicide, they created a fund to buoy their community — and their spirits

Heidi Stevens: After losing their son to suicide, they created a fund to buoy their community — and their spirits

At the start of October, Kristen Coe and her husband, Mark, opened their home to friends and family and neighbors for a backyard gathering and neighborhood scavenger hunt. Their daughter’s second-grade teacher came. Their son’s rowing coach came. The social worker from their kids’ middle school came. The woman who shared fourth-grade room-mom duties with Coe came. “I walked into the backyard and saw people from all the paths of the life I’ve wal…