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TRACYTON Ninety-eight-year-old Edith Stanley s hands are rarely at rest. Despite severe arthritis that pains her fingers, she s often found holding her crotchet hook, spinning yarn into long, fabric patterns that, in just a few hours time, slowly form a hat.
For more than two decades, Stanley, of Tracyton, has donated thousands of chemo hats to the radiation department of her local hospital, now called St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale. They ve been worn through the toughest of times by those she does not know and a few she does. A friend who succumbed to cancer was buried in one of her hats.