Greenlawn parents raise money for pediatric cancer in honor of late daughter
Maggie's Mission pays for children with cancer to cross something off their own bucket list.
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A Greenlawn mother and father are honoring a bucket list their daughter never got to fulfill.
Donna Desousa-Schmidt and Steven Schmidt's daughter, Maggie, died from a rare cancer in 2017.
"She made a bucket list with seven items," Steven Schmidt says. "My wife and I have been checking off an item every so often."
Donna Desousa-Schmidt had planned to jump out of a plane to honor her daughter's bucket list Friday, but weather stopped that from happening.
Instead, a U.S. Army Golden Knight landed at the Maggie Missions "Angelversary" Gala.
Both parents are now helping to fund research for pediatric cancer through Maggie's Mission, a charity that also pays for children with cancer to cross something off their own bucket list.
Scientists are using Maggie's tumor to develop better treatments.
For more information on the campaign, click here.
