MontCo School Honors Memory Of 3 Children It Lost To Cancer
By Anita Oh
BLUE BELL, Pa. (CBS) -- On Friday, a Montgomery County school paused to remember three children that it lost to cancer in the last decade.
Cancer is the battle that three families at St. Helena School in Blue Bell fought. In the last ten years, the school has lost three children to childhood cancer. They planted trees to honor the lives of Erin, John and Landon.
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Erin Moore, passionate about art and the color red, lost her four-year battle with brain cancer in 2005. "She celebrated every day and didn't complain and lived life," said her mother Diane Moore. "We try to take that forward with our family."
John Shapiro, a spunky, happy child, fought the same brain tumor since her was two-years-old. "After you get the first diagnosis, then you still have hope," his mother Nancy Shapiro said. "Then, when it comes back, you realize this is a battle we're probably not going to win."
On Landon Vargas' 4th birthday, doctors diagnosed him with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a battle he lost at age nine. "He was always happy no matter what he was battling," his mother Beth Vargas explained. "He did it with grace; a smile on his face."
These are the stories, the lives honored and remembered by this tight knit community.
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On behalf of all 554 students, the school donated money to Mascots for a Cure and took part in the 36 Second Twist Challenge to raise money and awareness for cancer research.
