Kim Vaillancourt, mother of 6, dies after battle with brain cancer
The Town of Tonawanda mother inspired Western New Yorkers with her faith, courage and hope throughout the more than five years she fought glioblastoma.
Author: Melissa Holmes
Updated: 8:02 PM EDT April 25, 2021
TOWN OF TONAWANDA, N.Y. — For more than five years, Kim Vaillancourt inspired her family and the Western New York community with her faith and strength as she bravely battled brain cancer. On Saturday night, April 24, 2021, she passed away peacefully. She was 41.
Kim Eisenhauer, a Tonawanda High School graduate, married her love, Phil Vaillancourt, 20 years ago.
They had two children, Ryan and Hailey, and as Kim Vaillancourt was pregnant with their third child, they fostered and then adopted three little girls from a troubled home.