Lebo Family Still Fights Cancer In Memory Of Young Son

Planting a tree or donating a park bench is a special way to memorialize a loved one, but when Mt. Lebanon's Conover family first began to channel its grief, none of that seemed quite right. "Being a teenage boy, the Matt Conover Garden of Whatever wasn't him," said his mother, Noelle.

In the six years since Matt's death from non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the family has helped raise more than $150,000 for cancer research in honor of their son. It helped build a playground in Mexico. There is a Matt Conover scholarship at Mt. Lebanon High School. A project called Wrapped in Love sold hand-knitted scarves.

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