“She was the definition of childlike faith. She was strong even when she was not feeling well,” said Audrey Floyd, her pre-K teacher at StoneBridge Early Learning Center in Newnan. “She had more faith than a lot of people, including me. She taught me more than I taught her.”

​Local Pediatric Cancer Patient Remembered

“And though she but little, she is fierce” is a Shakespeare quote that could describe Keris Bembry.

The 6-year-old cancer patient passed away in July 2015 from Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), which is a rare form of pediatric brain cancer with only 100 – 150 new cases each year.