Family, friends, and even strangers have raised over $60,000 for a Natick woman after her husband died unexpectedly in his sleep one day before she gave birth to twin boys.

Dino Trubiano, 39, died in his home Friday morning, a day before his wife of 10 years, Sue Heslin Trubiano, was scheduled to have a cesarean section.

A friend of Sue’s from high school, Karen DeVincent, set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for the new mother and to help with funeral expenses. The page raised over $50,000 in just days.

“When I heard what happened, I set up the page just hoping it would help,” DeVincent told Boston.com. “I never imagined it would do so well or touch so many people.”


Sue welcomed her twin boys, Caleb Peter and Jacob Dino, into the world on March 26, and all three are “healthy and doing well,” according to an update within the fundraising page.

Dino, a life long Natick resident and one of three siblings, was an attorney and supervisor for the U.S. Social Security Administration in Boston. He was “an avid runner, Patriots fan, enjoyed music and cherished the time spent with his family,” according to his obituary.

A joint statement from both the Trubiano and Heslin families expressed “shock and sadness” after the sudden loss of Dino.