Jeremy Gunter Children’s Cancer Fund – 1201
Fund Type: Passthrough Fund
Fund Description:
Purpose: To provide holiday gifts to child patients at the Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana.
History: Jeremy Gunter was born in 1976. He then attended and graduated from Manchester High School where he loved sports and played trumpet in the band. Just six days short of his 18th birthday, Jeremy was diagnosed with cancer. He had been accepted into Wabash College but put it on hold for one year while he was fighting off the cancer. He was in the pep band at Manchester College and transferred to Wabash the follow year and joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity. In 2001 he married Katie Rivich and they built a home together in 2006 in Mooresville, Indiana. Jeremy was diagnosed with cancer once again and again bravely fought the cancer, but passed away in 2008.