Girls donate hair to make medical wigs
Published: September 12, 2006
Beautiful bouquets to Addie Jo Pearce and Allison Byron for donating their hair to make wigs for people with medical hair loss.
• Addie Jo, a sixth-grader at Erwine Middle School in Coventry Township, recently donated 11 inches of her light-brown hair to Pantene’s new Beautiful Lengths charitable campaign. The hair-care products line provides human-hair wigs to women with hair loss caused by chemotherapy or alopecia.
Addie could have donated to Wigs for Kids or Locks of Love, which make wigs for children with medical hair loss. But she had something else in mind.
She wanted to honor her grandmother Joann Pearce of Akron, who was diagnosed with breast cancer this year.
And she also wanted to honor the memory of the late Dori Just, who died five years ago of cancer. Just left a husband and four daughters, including twins who are Addie’s age.
• Hard to believe, but Allison, of Tallmadge, who is only 3 ½ years old, was able to donate 10 inches of her hair to Locks of Love. Her mother, Karen Byron, has made donations to the organization in the past.
Grandmother Judy Lacey of Brimfield Township said arrangements are being made for Allison to meet an Akron Children’s Hospital patient who has medical hair loss “so she knows what her hair is going for.”
Lacey’s son Joseph, also of Brimfield, was diagnosed at age 17 with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and given a dismal prognosis. Today he is 44, doing well and active with the American Cancer Society’s annual Survivors Day.
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