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By Dave Dahl
Jonny Wade was an outgoing kid, smart enough to know the name of his Congressman, and to ask for more money for pediatric cancer research.
Jonny, of Jerseyville, died at age eight, on Christmas Eve 2015, two days short of a year after his diagnosis of brain cancer. Now his parents, Jon and Kimberly Wade, have raised more than $500,000 through the Kids Shouldn’t Have Cancer Foundation, which the Wades founded.
“He kept saying, over and over through his treatment, that he didn’t want another kid to have cancer,” Kimberly Wade said Friday, a worldwide day of Biden Cancer Community Summits.
The Wades’ foundation hosted one of the summits in Springfield.
www.kidsshouldnthavecancer.org
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