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The MCG Team will walk proudly in honor and in memory of many incredible humans.  Thank you for supporting us!

Our "Why" From Each Member of the MCG Team:

Kelley Jones: My Why

I’m walking in honor of my mom Suzanne Huber, carrying both love and hope with every step.

Shelby Duke: My Why

One of the great things about our work lives is the people we meet along the way.  They aren’t just colleagues, they become friends. One of the most beautiful ways you get to know them more deeply over time is by listening to them talk about their families.  You see each other through good times and through hard times.  If you’re lucky, those friendships are so strong that they last through the years.  I became one of the lucky ones when I met Deb Halan way back in the early 2000s when we worked together at HCSC.

She and I weren’t in the same department, and honestly, I don’t even remember how we crossed paths since we worked at such a large company.  Through the years, I got to know her family through her eyes: her beloved husband, Larry, and their two cherished kiddos, Brandi and Brett.  I only met Larry a handful of times over the years, but I still felt like I knew him somehow and that’s because Deb spoke of him with so much love and compassion.

Deb and Larry have supported my participation in the Walk and Roll for as many years as I can remember.  None of us knew that one day I would be asking if I could walk for Larry.

Deb retired in early March last year and just a few days later, they got a heartbreaking diagnosis: Larry had stomach cancer.  He began treatment but the disease was relentless.  As the months passed, he kept fighting but the cancer spread to his liver, his lymph nodes, his lungs and his bones.   This wasn’t Larry’s first experience with a terrible illness; he had battled MS for the last thirty years and his family knew that his physical body could only take so much more.   

He was hospitalized on New Year’s Eve and while he was there, I sent Deb a voice text that she and Larry listened to together.  I asked for their blessing to walk in this year’s Walk and Roll in honor of Larry.  They kindly gave me their blessing, but Deb also said that Larry started to cry when he heard my words; he said he didn’t deserve that.  It brought me great sadness to learn that he felt that way.   

Deb reached out to me a few days later to tell me that Larry would be transitioning to hospice.  She and the kids desperately wanted to bring him home for hospice care, but he was simply not well enough for at home care.  I went to visit him the day after he transitioned to hospice.  There was a roomful of his loved ones there and he was resting, surrounded by the most special people in his life.  Before I left, I got to take his hand, say goodbye and tell him the one very important thing I needed him to know: he absolutely deserves it.  

Larry was called home to his Lord on January 10.  His family mourns him deeply, but their hearts find comfort knowing that he is at peace.    

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$18,380 Raised By 137 Donors

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$50 On Behalf Of Shelby Duke
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$10 on behalf of Brandi McCann

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