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Sept. 27, 1962 - Sept. 11, 2007
In the stands May 2006
August 16, 2007 in Gettysburg
From the Frederick Paper
Originally this blog was used to keep people informed about the daily happenings in the life of my beautiful wife Christine while she courageously battled stage IV breast cancer since Sept. 2004. After 3 years of fierce battle Chris lost her life to this dreaded disease at 6:30 AM on Tuesday, September 11, 2007. Our family will continue to carry on her spirit, drive, and toughness as we continue our lives without her. WE MISS YOU SWEETHEART! - Love, Charlie
Christine A. DeWitt
Sept. 27, 1962 - Sept. 11, 2007
Insipiration for all of us!
In the stands May 2006
One Final Picture
August 16, 2007 in Gettysburg
Trust Fund Donations
Immediately after Chris's passing COMSTAR FCU and their counsel set up a trust fund for donations. This trust fund will be used solely for the purpose of helping to pay for the future education of her 3 children.
If you would like to make a donation to the children's trust fund please send your donations to:
Chris DeWitt Children's Trust Fund
c/o Doug Thornton, Esquire, Trustee
127 W. Patrick Street
Frederick, MD 21701
Questions may be directed to Doug at his email. Click here to send him your questions.
If you would like to make a donation to the children's trust fund please send your donations to:
Chris DeWitt Children's Trust Fund
c/o Doug Thornton, Esquire, Trustee
127 W. Patrick Street
Frederick, MD 21701
Questions may be directed to Doug at his email. Click here to send him your questions.
Climb for Hope
Dr. Emens is Chris's Oncologist and she and some very good friends are in the process of raising funds to help fund the research program that she is working on at John's Hopkins Hospital. Specifically, there is a clinical trial that is currently being done that she is heading up. This trial is the same trial that Chris is trying to get into. The trial is leading edge and so is the climb for hope teams! Click here to check out their blog.
Personal Links
Bagpipe Song
Many have asked about the song that the bagpipe player was playing at the cemetery for Chris's funeral. After some digging we've determined that the name of the song is Suo Gan and is a traditional Welsh lullaby. Here is a link to the song.
Chris's Obituary
From the Frederick Paper
2 comments:
The following remarks combine the thoughts of Peter Augustini with mine on the loss of Jodi Alter Buerger, Mr. Augustini’s wife and my sister.
Jodi A. Buerger ended her four and one-half year struggle with cancer May 8, 2009.
My sister Jodi was the inspiration to create Climb for Hope. When she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in October 2004, I knew we had to move quickly to find a cure. Jodi was one of the greatest women you’d ever meet. Her courage and strength led me to put together an organization dedicated to speeding up work on a treatment for advanced breast cancer to give her more time with her family.
Our precious and beautiful Jodi died only after exhausting every ounce of energy from her broken body. She never gave up and never wavered, clinging to life with awesome courage and determination. I believe she was driven by a sacred devotion to her children and an abiding promise to protect and nurture them. That’s the spirit we embody on our mountaineering expeditions.
In turn we honor her life and take forward the lessons she taught us about being a good and decent person, always acting with integrity and grace, always with words of support and encouragement. She measured her life by what she could do for others and never by what was taken from her.
Throughout her battle she drew tremendous strength from the overwhelming support and love of her family, friends, and climbers. It helped her more than you might know—through all the harrowing medical procedures and crushing relapses and in those dark moments when unspeakable pain and suffering would momentarily weaken her grip.
She leaves behind Peter, a loving husband of 14 years, and 3 children Charles 12, Caroline 9 and Max 5,
We were not able to save my sister Jodi’s life. But, as Jodi remarked to me when our expedition returned successfully from Kilimanjaro last year that we may not find something fast enough for her, but she believed that her daughter Caroline would grow up in a world without breast cancer because of the hard work of CFH volunteer climbers.
I want to thank each of you for all you’ve done to support and sustain us. Thank you for every hug, every tear, every dollar, and every ounce of support to create a sustainable organization that will keep Jodi’s name alive.
Our board recently voted to change the name of the organization to Jodi’s Climb for Hope to fulfill her wish that despite leaving us at an early age, she never be forgotten.
Now, in Jodi’s name we will continue on the many advances we’ve made in three short years, giving Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Leisha Emens $350,000. That money sped up research by six months and lead to the ground-breaking discovery that lower doses of chemotherapy increase immune responses, a lasting legacy that will be left for future generations.
Jodi will be missed by so many people, including the more than 75 CFH climbers that she inspired to push themselves way beyond their perceived physical limits to summit a mountain they never thought possible.
I would have traded anything that Jodi would have never gotten this disease. Since she did, she was able affect real change in this world. Due to Jodi’s humble personality, she never fathomed how many lives she touched – donors, climbers, guides, volunteers, breast cancer survivors, and grieving families – through Climb for Hope.
If furthering cancer research and inspiring scores of people is how’s she’s remembered, than she’ll have lived a fulfilled life.
May her memory continue to be a blessing.
Donations in Jodi Alter Buerger’s memory can be sent to the charity of your choice or on-line to Climb For Hope, a Baltimore-based foundation that raises funds for breast cancer research. http://www.climbforhope.com/
Thank you for sharing this with all of us. I have also posted on charliedewitt.com as well.
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