Within the last hour or so, we at The Paducah Sun got the sad and awful news that Gunner Gillespie, the 8-year-old son of Marshall County basketball coach Gus Gillespie, passed away after battling an inoperable brain tumor for nearly 11 months.
Far western Kentucky has gotten to know Gunner and his plight quite well for the last year — his love of trains became the inspiration for T-shirts that were sold to help raise money for his medical expenses, and his mother, Janna, has kept thousands of friends and well-wishers apprised of Gunner's struggles on an online journal.
Gus Gillespie talked in this forum back in the spring about how much he and his family appreciated the outpouring of love and support — emotionally, financially and otherwise — received from the Marshall community, and how it played a role in his decision not to seek an attractive coaching job at Mount Vernon, Ill., where he was once an assistant.
Please keep the Gillespies in your prayers ...
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