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Mom of boy who called ND play dies
SI.com ^ | 26 May 2006` | AP

Posted on 05/28/2006 3:01:17 PM PDT by MikefromOhio

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- The mother of a boy granted a dying wish to call a football play for Notre Dame died eight months after her son.

Cathy Mazurkiewicz died Wednesday at 46 at her parents' home in Bodfish, Calif., of melanoma, said her daughter, Katrin Seymour. Mazurkiewicz' son, Montana, 10, died of inoperable brain cancer.

"Me and my sister were with her," Seymour said. "She took a few soft breaths, gave a smile, then she was gone."

Mazurkiewicz, the mother of six children, knew her health was failing when her son died but kept it quiet.

"When she was taking care of Montana she hardly had time to focus on her own illness," said Seymour, who lives in Alhambra, Calif., east of Los Angeles.

Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis visited Montana Mazurkiewicz in Mishawaka, outside South Bend, last September before Notre Dame played Washington. Weis asked if there was something he could do, and he agreed to let Montana call the first play against Washington. Montana called "pass right."

Weis called for a pass right on the first play of the game even though the Irish started on their own 1-yard line. Tight end Anthony Fasano caught the pass and leapt over a defender for a 13-yard gain.

Montana never got to see the play, though. He had died the day before.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: charlieweis; collegefootball; mazurkiewicz; notredame; notredamefootball; obituary
Prayers for this family....
1 posted on 05/28/2006 3:01:18 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore); aft_lizard; Auntbee; daybreakcoming; Barney59; bourbon; cleveland gop; ...


College Football Ping.

Freepmail me to be added to this list.

ABG(anybody but

2 posted on 05/28/2006 3:01:38 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq)
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To: MikefromOhio

The other thread on FR

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491248/posts


3 posted on 05/28/2006 3:02:34 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq)
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To: MikefromOhio

Wow. Unbelievably sad.


4 posted on 05/28/2006 3:03:24 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: MikefromOhio

Prayers for the family.


5 posted on 05/28/2006 3:06:00 PM PDT by kassie
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To: kassie; MikefromOhio

Incredibly sad.


6 posted on 05/28/2006 3:14:06 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: MikefromOhio
Montana never got to see the play, though. He had died the day before.

Methinks he saw it.

7 posted on 05/28/2006 3:16:13 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: MikefromOhio

Prayers.


8 posted on 05/28/2006 4:10:58 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: bannie

me too


9 posted on 05/28/2006 4:12:03 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq)
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To: MikefromOhio
Weis called for a pass right on the first play of the game even though the Irish started on their own 1-yard line.

A class act.

10 posted on 05/28/2006 8:51:10 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Liberals saying "We Support The Troops" is like OJ looking for the real killers.)
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To: bannie
Methinks he saw it.

13 yard gain, metinks he was blocking.

11 posted on 05/28/2006 8:51:54 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Liberals saying "We Support The Troops" is like OJ looking for the real killers.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Methinks that youthinks correctly.

:-)


12 posted on 05/29/2006 1:14:07 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: MikefromOhio
visited Montana Mazurkiewicz in Mishawaka

Say that again...

13 posted on 05/30/2006 5:35:10 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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