Meals for Mott

Paula Crosby's promise fulfilled

by Jan Schlain

posted 4/28/2011

Easter Sunday will be a little brighter for young Mott Hospital cancer patients and families thanks to a promise Ann Arborite Paula Crosby made to herself a decade ago. After her eight-year-old son, John, died of a rare adrenal gland cancer, the family started a foundation in John's name to help other families of seriously ill kids. Remembering how she had dreaded the holidays when John was sick, Crosby recruits family and friends to deliver meals to "7 Mott"--the seventh floor of the U-M children's hospital, where kids with cancer stay.

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