Relay for Life a Poignant, Happy Celebration
Cancer survivors, families join at Deicke Park in Huntley on Friday night for opening ceremonies of Relay for Life of Northern Fox Valley.
Julie Cox posed with family and friends behind a huge banner that read “Charlotte’s Angels” for Friday’s Relay for Life of Northern Fox Valley. Nearby on a table, there was a photo of Charlotte Blankenship, Cox's grandmother, who died in 2008 of lung cancer. The frame included two other family members, her mother-in-law, Mary Cox, who died last August of colon cancer and her aunt, Wanda Jones, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December. Her beloved aunt is in remission, she said. Everywhere one turned, throughout Deicke Park in Huntley, there were banners, photos and people wearing white sashes reading “survivor.” Nearby, Louie and Dolores Theodore sat after walking the first lap. Both are cancer survivors. The couple has been …
Kathie
9:20 am on Tuesday, June 12, 2012
To All My Fellow Sun City Residents, Neighborhood Watch committee, NAC, Board, andthe residents of Huntley, Come support your favorite Walgreens Warrior Team.........We will all be there, we hope you will be too...... more ›