The 10th Annual
Walk for Jenn
In memory of Jennifer Marie Baxter September 14, 1991 · January 23, 2017
The Walk
Saturday,
September 128:30 in the morning
A portion of every shirt sold goes to the UCSF Lynch Syndrome Center in Jennifer's memory.
- WhereBear Creek and McKee, Merced. Meet at the Bear Creek parking structure
- DistanceThree miles, out along Bear Creek and back the other bank
- TerrainPaved and flat the whole way, right along the creek
- BringDogs, strollers, kids, grandparents. Two water stations on the route
Why we walk
Jennifer's diagnosis is why our family got tested.Lynch syndrome runs in families. Hers found it for all of us.
Ten years of walking
Every September since she left us, the same creek, the same three miles. Her birthday falls two days after this one.
Her story
She was classy, caring,
and fun to be with.
Born at Oak Knoll, raised at Fort Ord and then in Wiesbaden with the other Army kids. Sledding in the Austrian Alps. A train to Paris. Home to Merced at eight years old, and Golden Valley High after that.
Six years with the after-school program at Burbank Elementary. A manicurist's license from Adrian's, and a chair at Salon on the Square where she built her own style. Tubing the Merced River every summer. Audrey Hepburn at every costume party.
Lynch syndrome
If it's in your family,
you can find out.
Lynch syndrome is inherited. It raises the lifetime risk of colorectal, uterine and stomach cancers, and it passes from parent to child. Most people carrying it have no idea.
Jennifer was twenty-three when she was diagnosed and twenty-five when she left us. Her diagnosis is the reason the rest of the family knew to get tested at all.
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