Preston Settles Memorial Fund

As of July 2023, we have received nearly $1 million in gifts and commitments through this site and other donations! We thank you for helping to maintain this momentum and to continue to make Preston's memory a blessing.

From the family of Preston Settles:

 

Our wonderful, previously healthy, handsome, and perpetually happy son Preston Blair Settles has transitioned to his next journey. During the last twenty-two days after collapsing on a basketball court in North Andover, Mass., he has been nothing less than a spartan fighter up until the very end at 8:12 pm on Sunday, February 27, 2022. We are showered with relief and peace as we shoulder an unspeakable loss.

 

We want to thank the medical teams at both Tufts Medical Center and most recently at Boston Children's Hospital for the exemplary care for, and attention to, our Preston. Preston's pediatrician has been our rock.

 

We also want to thank our relatives, friends, and colleagues for the abundance of love that has been wrapped around us since the very first day. You have all been magnificent and we TRULY appreciated all of the love, hugs, times crying together, lunches, dinners, flowers, gifts, accommodations, errands, etc.

 

Lastly, we want to thank our dear sweet Preston for being an amazing son and incredible human being during his short fifteen years on this earth. Hats off to you buddy for living it LARGE and maximizing your time. Those that know you well, know that you were awesome, smart, hard worker, adventurous, funny, a true friend, and a loving brother.

 

The Preston Settles Memorial Fund is established to provide and fund PReston’s Hope: Accelerating discOvery and Care for people wiTh hypErtrophic CardiomyopaThy (PROTECT), and to otherwise support charitable activities in Preston’s memory.

 

The Boston Foundation established this fundraising page in partnership with the Settles Family, for the sole purpose of accepting donations to the Preston Settles Memorial Fund at the Boston Foundation. Thank you for your gifts to the Fund.

To contribute securities, other assets or with a check, please refer to the gift instructions on the Boston Foundation's website. 

To view the video tribute to Preston put together by the Fessenden School and Brooks School, please visit the fund page on the Boston Foundation website .

To view the program for the Celebration of Life at Trinity Church - click here .

To read the poem "PRESTON" by Dr. Oneeka Williams, click here .