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WHEATON, IL (December 9, 2008) \u2013 Funeral services were conducted Saturday at Glen Ellyn Covenant Church<\/a> for 11-year-old Isaac Wright, who inspired his community during his lengthy battle with leukemia.
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\n\"Boy\"Wright died at home under hospice care. He was five years old when doctors diagnosed him with lymphoblastic leukemia, a fast-growing cancer of the white blood cells. To learn more about the disease visit the National Cancer Institute on Leukemia<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

Wright had a bone-marrow transplant in February, for which his brother Nathaniel served as a donor. The cancer returned, however, and the family had hoped to get his cancer into remission again so that doctors could try a double-cord blood transplant.<\/p>\n

He had been in the hospital for months trying to fight infections from chemotherapy before returning home recently.<\/p>\n

His battle with leukemia led the community to help him and his family in numerous ways. For example, many people gathered outside the Wrights\u2019 home for a candlelight vigil to pray before his transplant.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast July, after the family learned the transplant didn’t work, the parents agreed to get Isaac and Nathaniel the dog they always wanted,\u201d according to the Daily Herald, a local newspaper. \u201cStaff at Central Du Page Hospital raised money and helped the family adopt Midnight from a Naperville shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n

A number of fundraisers had been held and were planned. A bowl-a-thon and celebration of Wright\u2019s life is scheduled December 13 at Carol Stream Brunswick Zone.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read a local newspaper\u2019s coverage of Wright\u2019s heroic struggle. Click here<\/a> for additional details surrounding his death.<\/p>\n

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