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This 87-Year-Old Hospice Patient Checked a Goal of Her Bucket List by Participating in the Women’s March
Meet Mary Tanasse, an 87-year-old hospice patient who was not going to let anything get in her way from participating in Saturday’s historic Women’s March.
When Tanasse found out she had terminal ovarian cancer, she had one major goal: to live long enough to participate in the Women’s March in Olympia, Washington. With the help of her doctors, Tanasse was able to check the march off her bucket list.
“I asked them ‘Please let me live until this march’ because it was so important for me to model what I feel is right for my family,” Tanasse said to local Seattle news station KING-TV.
Tanasse, who is the mother of nine kids and grandmother to 27 grandchildren, participated in the march to support quality. One day “she hopes her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have access to equal pay, quality health care and a good education,” reported the Olympian.
💗 87-year-old Mary asked her hospice: "Please let me live until this march." She explains why today is so important to her, via @ElisaHahnK5 pic.twitter.com/tmKxSCKLfy
— KING 5 News (@KING5Seattle) January 22, 2017
Tanasse’s family originally planned to march in Washington D.C., but when they heard her wish to participate, they all traveled to Seattle.
“She has terminal ovarian cancer,” her grandson Jacob Williams to KING-TV News. “We wanted to be here to support women’s rights and civil rights but also to support her.”
Overall, about 10,000 people gathered to show their support in Olympia.
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“I can’t ask more than that,” Mary Tanasse said to local Seattle news station KING-TV. “I made it and it’s a beautiful day. I hope this is something for all over the world not just here.”
In honor of his grandmother, Williams has created a GoFundMe page with the hopes of founding a women’s educational scholarship. All of the donations “will go toward a one-time or reoccurring needs-based scholarship to help women achieve their goal of pursuing higher education,” Williams wrote.
Tonight – a daughter talks about Mary Tanasse's legacy @KING5Seattle 5p and 630p pic.twitter.com/EQeR0WyEZC
— elisa hahn (@ElisaTHahn) January 24, 2017
Check out to GoFundMe page here.