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Family, city workers hope to raise awareness of disease that took Augusta woman’s life
Kathy Sproul, who died April 9 at age 69, insisted her brain be donated to research to help find a cure or treatment for progressive supranuclear palsy.
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Bethany Sproul LeBrun with her son, Nolan, 4, and daughter, Maya, 8, outside her workplace at the Buker Center recently in Augusta.
Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal
AUGUSTA About three years ago, Kathy Sproul was diagnosed with a rare, terminal neurological disease progressive supranuclear palsy that has no cure and progressively takes away the patient’s abilities to function.