By Rebeca Pereira, Reporter Correspondent
June 2, 2021
Rebeca Pereira, Reporter Correspondent Queenie Santos s goal: Get kids ready for the next steps of life. Flavio D photography
Last March, Quennette “Queenie” Santos’s mother, Izora Kindell, succumbed to renal failure after a tough battle against kidney and lung cancer. She was 92.
Much like her daughter, who herself had been diagnosed with stage four bilateral breast cancer five years earlier, “Momma” wore a smile on her face throughout her treatment and kept the doors to her home in Harbor Point open to the children who passed through the Walter Denney Youth Center next door.