About Us

When Paige was young, she volunteered at Trinity Lutheran School’s summer program and Vacation Bible School as well as the summer reading program at the Green Free Library in Wellsboro. Everyone would tell her how good she was with the children and that she should become a teacher. So, in typical teenager fashion, she said she would never work with children. Paige graduated from Wellsboro high school in 2014 and attended Drexel University with an undeclared major. After her freshman year she still did not know that she wanted to be when she grew up, so she came home and took a year off from school. Paige was very frustrated that she didn’t know what her passion or purpose was in life. After returning home from Drexel, she got a job as a nanny for a wonderful family and Paige fell head over heels in love with the little girl, as well as her sister who was born a year later. Paige referred to them as ‘her girls’. Paige had decided to return to college, still not entirely sure of her path, and was accepted to Keuka College. On July 30, 2016 after a trip to the ER for what we thought was appendicitis, we were told she had masses in her pelvic area. On August 19 th, Paige underwent surgery and had a baseball sized mass removed from her colon along with four inches of her colon, a grape sized mass removed from her right ovary, and lesions from her left ovary. What was supposed to have been a laparoscopic surgery with an overnight stay turned into a six-inch abdominal incision, a three-day hospital stay, and a cancer diagnosis. In true Paige fashion, she started classes on schedule at Keuka just ten days post-op. She was determined that cancer was not going to interfere with college so much so that we picked her up from her dorm and took her to her very first chemo treatment. She ultimately realized that a germy dorm was not a place to be and once again returned home. In the end she convinced all of her professors to allow her to finish the semester from home. Dealing with a cancer diagnosis, undergoing chemo treatment and side effects, and completing coursework from home, Paige obtained three Bs and one A…and was disappointed with her grades. Paige returned to work at Trinity as her treatments and counts would allow at their after-school program and as a preschool aide. After her diagnosis, she became even more frustrated with not knowing her path in life. A few weeks prior to her passing, she said she realized her purpose in life – to take care of the children that had passed away while they were waiting for their parents. Paige passed on November 24, 2018 from high grade Stage IV undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma.