Photo by RR Best
Pictured is Kim Warren with her newly planted display at Wyman Park in the background. The display serves as a memorial for Warren’s father, mother, and brother-in-law, all of whom lost their battles with cancer. The memorial was completed just in time for this past weekend’s Relay for Life.

New Wyman park display arrives in time for Relay for Life

June 17, 2015

by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com

Close to five years ago, Kay Aldridge arranged for a memorial in Wyman Park for her late husband Harris after his fight with cancer. The memorial, three crabapple trees and a stone plaque in the middle, was placed just south of Wyman Lake near the north parking lot pavilion.
Kay herself passed away last August, she too after battling cancer, but her memory was commemorated and the chance seized to raise awareness about the awful disease that took her life when her daughter Kim Warren decided to expand on the memorial just in time to debut for this past weekend’s Relay for Life.
“When we knew they were going to move the Relay for Life out here, I decided I was going to plant it,” said Warren. “Anything with flowers, wildlife, animals, she was all about that–in fact when I went to go do this Kory (Wiley, parks superintendent) said, ‘This is the perfect place Kim because she always came out here. She always parked here. She always picked persimmons over here.’ She chose the site for my dad’s memorial so I worked furiously all week last week and did it all in the pinks, purples, and fuchsias like the American Cancer Society colors.”     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.