Melissa Pariser's College Fund for Aria & Sydney

Melissa was an amazing mother, wife, and person. She was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in December 2017. She was pregnant with Sydney at the time and planning a move to Minneapolis to build a life with her husband Joe and older daughter Aria. While gracefully balancing a new city, new home, pregnancy and a new job for Joe, she battled breast cancer with numerous rounds of chemotherapy, multiple surgeries and courses of radiation. Sydney was born healthy on June 13, 2018.

Ultimately, her disease progressed and she passed away at home on July 17, 2019. She was 32 years old. Her legacy is her children who are now 2 and 1 year old. Prior to her passing, she requested that any donations in her memory to be split between her childrens' college funds (529's), which were recently established.

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