Donna Hamel:
CLASS OF 1971
Amesbury High SchoolClass of 1971
Amesbury, MA
St. Joseph Elementary SchoolClass of 1967
Amesbury, MA
Donna's Story
Still living in a small town in Virginia, just 35 minutes to Washington, D.C.
I guess it it is time to do a little updating. 2026 has been a tough year for this family. We lost Roger in January to a very rare type of cancer. He fought it for 4 long years. In and out out cancer treatments and a trial that finally got him to remission and on to stem cell. I learned more about cancer than I ever thought would be possible in my life time. It is nasty business. All was going along great he stayed in remission for 9 months and was really begining to be himself and then it wasn't. Back to treatments again and hopefully back to stem cell with a donor. But it was not to be. We kept hope to the very end. He just wasn't well enough to get anymore cancer treatments. So in J...Expand for more
anuary we said goodbye.
It has been tough on the family the granddaugters miss him terribly and so do Renee, Lauren and I. Some days it is hard to get going and others not so bad.
Renee is still at High point univercity in NC still teaching. Lauren is now teaching at her old elementry school as special ed teacher and me I'm at home looking for something to get interested in enough to get me out of the house. The grand daughters are growing up so fast. Roger enjoyed ever minute of the girls games and just having them so close.
We were so forunate to make to the class 50th reunion and a fews years past that to the Hamel reunion in August. Last year Roger was doing so well went to the family reunion not knowing it would be with the whole family for the last time.
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