West Orange Scholarship Fund partners with Jimmy Crabtree Cancer Fund

West Orange Scholarship Foundation is partnering with Jimmy Crabtree Cancer Fund to better support students who have been directly impacted by cancer in their families. 

A designated sponsored scholarship now will be awarded through the existing West Orange Scholarship Foundation program to graduating West Orange High School seniors whose families have been impacted by cancer. 

The partnership will ensure "compassion is matched with meaningful educational opportunity for youth impacted by cancer in the community," according to a news release. 

"This partnership builds on more than 60 years of serving local students and allows us to focus even more intentionally on students facing cancer," said Beth Wincey, the West Orange Scholarship Foundation president, in a news release. 

Andy Crabtree, the president of the Jimmy Crabtree Cancer Fund, said the partnership is another way to honor Jimmy Crabtree, who died April 5, 2011, after an eight-month battle with carcinoid cancer. 

“When our family went through what we did with Jimmy, we felt God’s comfort through people who were close, present and willing to carry the burden with us," Jimmy Crabtree's parents, Fred and Sue Crabtree, said in a news release. "This partnership helps us extend that same local compassion to students right here at home who are walking through cancer in their own families."