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A 'Happy Warrior:' 11-Year-Old Rehanna Lydon Loses Cancer Battle
Evans City Middle School will hold a luncheon on Saturday to celebrate Rehanna's life.
It’s no coincidence that Rehanna Lydon’s Relay for Life team was dubbed Rehanna’s Warriors. The 11-year-old fought cancer with strength and determination, and she did it with a grin. Tom Hallman, principal at Evans City Middle School, where Rehanna would have been a sixth-grader in the fall, called her the “happy warrior.” “She fought the battle with a smile on her face at all times,” he said in a statement. “She was an inspiration to all of those who knew her.” On Monday, she lost her fight with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of muscular cancer with which she was diagnosed at age 8. After going into remission, she was diagnosed for a second time with the disease in 2010. Her last weeks were spent in and out of Children’s Hospital of …
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