Barrie's million-dollar man and Second World Warfare veteran Will Dwyer has handed away.
The Barrie Legion 147 and The Barrie Terry Fox Run confirmed that 96-year-old Dwyer handed away on Sunday.
Dwyer has been a well-known identify throughout Simcoe County after setting and smashing a aim to lift a million dollars for the Terry Fox Basis in 2019 and 2020.
An initiative close to and pricey to his coronary heart, Dwyer has participated within the run for most cancers analysis for the previous 4 many years regardless of current well being points.
In an interview with CTV Information in 2019, Dwyer stated that whereas he by no means met Terry Fox, he was impressed by the Marathon of Hope again in 1980. "I watched Terry, and it was laborious to imagine how he might hop alongside on one leg, and I assumed, I gotta become involved."
Not too long ago, Dwyer was battling prostate most cancers himself and different points that stored him within the hospital for weeks final 12 months.
Will's son, Robert Dwyer, carried the torch and continued fundraising efforts whereas his father was within the hospital.
"Terry Fox was not a quitter, nor was Dad," Robert Dwyer wrote in an e-mail to CTV Information. "Will was a real hero."
Will Dwyer raised a formidable $1.2-million for the Terry Fox Basis during the last 41 years.
With information from CTV's Kim Phillips
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