“I was singing Amazing Grace to her when she took her last breath,” said mother Val Mills. “The last few days with her were powerful and wonderful.” It’s a month since Harry married Donnie Musgrove, 49, in a small faith-based ceremony in an Esquimalt home on Feb. 15. She had been given just days to live. She died at 10:45 a.m. on Monday. Harry was diagnosed in December 2019 with cervical cancer. She had a hysterectomy, chemotherapy and radiation which wrapped up early last summer. In the fall, Harry was prepared for an “all clear” from the oncologist and to jump back into her regular life and return to work as a ready-mix truck driver with Ocean Concrete. Instead, the cancer returned with a vengeance. In early November, her bladder and another tumour were removed.
VICTORIA With only weeks to live, a 39-year-old mother of four in Victoria was married on Monday. Kandace Harry proposed to Donnie Musgrove, 49, two years ago. Six months later, a cancer diagnosis interrupted their plans, the couple told CFAX 1070 on Wednesday. Kandace completed several rounds of chemotherapy last summer. But by September, the cancer had returned and this time it was terminal, her doctor told her. She endured surgeries and alternative therapy in Mexico. Still, the cancer was spreading fast. She s now using hospice care. We’ve never been able to make the plans to get married because all the other things were happening in our lives, Donnie said.
“She knows she has a limited amount of time left and she really wants to make the the most of every day that she has left,” said close friend Heather La Riviere. “It’s an incredible outlook to have when you’re 39 and you have just weeks left to not be angry, that just really speaks to her personality,” said La Riviere, describing her friend as kindred spirit, kind and loving. Two years ago Harry, 39, asked Musgrove, 49, to marry her. It was before cancer entered their life, when the couple thought they had all the time in the world to tie the knot.
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