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Alma, a devoted mother in Idaho Falls, has faced a year no one should have to endure

In February, she and her family lost her sister-in-law, Jill, to cancer. Just a month later, her husband Ervin passed away from colon cancer at the age of 46. Less than a week afterward, the family mourned Ervin’s father. Since then, Alma has shouldered the responsibility of being both mother and father to her children while navigating her own grief.

This fall brought another devastating blow: her 17-year-old son was diagnosed with osteosarcoma,

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