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Article: SOUTHERLAND FAMILY LOSES LAST TO CANCER.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 11, 1997
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Byline: From staff and wire reports
MIAMI -- Stephen Southerland, the last surviving male in a family devastated by cancer, died Tuesday of a brain tumor.
The 36-year-old Miami man had been treated in Cincinnati for 15 years for various cancers and had battled the disease for more than two decades.
An attorney, his family has seen seven generations struck down by the disease.
Southerland died at the home of his mother, Jane McMillen, who also lost two other sons and her husband to cancer. She and her current husband, Bert, were at his bedside when he died.
The Southerland family made many trips to Cincinnati so their son ...