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JOANNE ROCHON MEMORIAL FUND
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MEMORIAL FUND FOR JOANNE ROCHON
Our friend, Joanne Byrne Rochon, slipped off this "mortal coil" on July 27 after two years of battling cancer. She could not have faced the trials of her illness and the challenges of her treatments with more courage, grace, and humor.
Joanne was a tremendously talented artist/photographer living in Northville MI, after spending years in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and New York.
Joanne's cancers were directly caused by DES, a drug routinely prescribed to mothers who had miscarried or had children with low birth weight. Even as early as the 1930’s, researchers determined DES caused cancer and yet it continued to be prescribed to pregnant women. The damage to their children, and now grandchildren, is irreparable. And Michigan passed laws making lawsuits impossible.
This comes after having spent 13 years personally caring for her mother and sister, who both suffered from Alzheimers.
Joanne's medical treatment has been exhausting and her medical bills, despite insurance, are overwhelming
This fund has been set up to help with those expenses.
Any amount is appreciated.
Thank you for your help and generosity.
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Our friend, Joanne Byrne Rochon, slipped off this "mortal coil" on July 27 after two years of battling cancer. She could not have faced the trials of her illness and the challenges of her treatments with more courage, grace, and humor.
Joanne was a tremendously talented artist/photographer living in Northville MI, after spending years in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and New York.
Joanne's cancers were directly caused by DES, a drug routinely prescribed to mothers who had miscarried or had children with low birth weight. Even as early as the 1930’s, researchers determined DES caused cancer and yet it continued to be prescribed to pregnant women. The damage to their children, and now grandchildren, is irreparable. And Michigan passed laws making lawsuits impossible.
This comes after having spent 13 years personally caring for her mother and sister, who both suffered from Alzheimers.
Joanne's medical treatment has been exhausting and her medical bills, despite insurance, are overwhelming
This fund has been set up to help with those expenses.
Any amount is appreciated.
Thank you for your help and generosity.
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Organizer and beneficiary
Anne Wilson Kurtzman
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
Joanne Rochon
Beneficiary