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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 16-year-old lad named Cody Johnson passed distant successful December aft battling leukemia, but his parents created a assemblage assistance money successful his honor.
Cody was successful Clovis High's marching band, wintertime percussion and performance band.
"Cody was an bonzer euphony pupil present astatine Clovis High," Esmeralda Rocha Lozano, Director of the Instrumental Music Program Band, Orchestra, Percussion & Dance Color Guard astatine Clovis High School said.
Music played a large relation successful his last days astatine the Valley Children's Hospital.
"He would rotation successful and they would say, 'Cody, what's what are you going to sing for america today?' And oftentimes they would sing with him," Dara Johnson said.
Cody's parents Dara and Matthew Johnson decided to rise wealth for a assemblage assistance money successful grant of Cody.
"What we tin bash is stock a memorial endowment assistance money with 2 kids that had the aforesaid passionateness that Cody did," Matthew Johnson said.
Choosing 1 pupil from Clovis High and different from Hoover High School.
"He archetypal fell successful emotion with marching band, watching our Hoover marching band," Mrs. Johnson said.
Keeping his representation alive.
"We'll beryllium capable to hopefully stock with the recipients who Cody was, what his passions were and what made him really, truly peculiar to us," Mr. Johnson said.
Lozano said Cody near his people connected the program.
"Cody continues to unrecorded done each of america and his bequest that helium has near present and has reminded america the value of assemblage and household and friends and the acquisition that euphony brings and however we request each different to heal," Lozano said.
The money has already raised implicit $28,000 arsenic of Saturday.
"His favourite punctuation was, 'If you're going to autumn down, marque definite you autumn connected your back. Because if you tin spot up, you tin get up.' And I conscionable consciousness similar helium was teaching us, preparing us," Mrs. Johnson said.
There volition beryllium a memorial held connected February 16 astatine the Clovis Veterans Building.
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