A woman who passed away in 2011 left her family a Christmas surprise after her dying wish was finally fulfilled two years later. Brenda Schmitz, a wife and mother of four boys, died from ovarian cancer in September 2011. A month before she passed away, she wrote a letter addressed to her local radio station, which runs an annual Christmas wishes programme. Brenda, 46, asked a friend to only post the letter to the Iowa radio station.