Like a typical graduation ceremony, the graduation march
played, the graduate wore a cap and gown and all of the school officials were
present. But this ceremony took place in an Ohio hospital room in January as a
dying wish for the sole graduate's mother. She died the next day.
Jennifer Linnabary's last wish after a four-year battle with
mantle cell lymphoma, a rare blood cancer, was to see her son Ben graduate from
high school.
"We knew that my mom wasn't doing well at all and the
last thing she wanted to see before she passed away was my brother
graduating," Linnabary's daughter Becca Asimus told ABCNews.com.
Family friends made some phone calls on Saturday and within
a matter of hours all of the necessary school officials had assembled at
Linnabary's bedside along with some family and friends for an official Colerain
High School graduation.
