The video explaining why Jack and Caroline are running for Student's of the Year!

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

We are just coming upon the one year anniversary of Dave's passing.  My husband, David L. Kessenich, died on January 22, 2020 from an aggressive blood cancer.  He battled for three years once diagnosed, but in the end, we were unable to keep his cancer away.  Dave and I were married for 22 years and have our three children:  Jack age 17, Caroline age 17, and Andrew age 15.  Dave was a fantastic husband, father to our three teens, uncle, brother, son, friend and our fearless leader who showed us what faith hope and love means by the way he lived his life til the end.  Jack and Caroline quicky accepted their nomination for LLS Student's of the year, once they were asked recently.  They along with their team of family and friends are called Team CUREsaders, and they want to make a difference!  They are ready to win this fundraising competition, but can only do so with your help.  One thing we have realized we can do is help support others fighting blood cancers and hopefully even help to get to a cure.  LLS raises money and does amazing work creating new drugs as well as so much more.  I can tell you first hand how impactful they are.  So many of you have also faced struggles with different cancers.  Together we can make a difference!  Please read below to see all of the incredible things LLS does with the money you donate...

By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. My appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org