Abby Montgomery of Kettering is having surgery Monday for embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, which is a secondary cancer after she was diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer when she was 5, her mother, Rhonda Montgomery said at the church, 100 Grace Road in Xenia.
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“It’s definitely overwhelming,” Rhonda Montgomery said of the support her family is receiving. “It’s good to see we have a lot of family who came in and people we don’t even know who came in, so it’s overwhelming.”
Credit: JEFFERY BROWN / STAFF
Credit: JEFFERY BROWN / STAFF
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A prayer gathering for Abby Montgomery, 14, of Kettering, will be held Sunday morning at Xenia Grace Chapel.
The community will gather at 10:30 a.m. at the church, 100 Grace Drive to pray for Abby, who is battling cancer for a second time, said her father, Kevin Montgomery.
She was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma and will have surgery Monday, her father said.
Abby and her brother Kaleb were both diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer when they were 5 but three years apart, according to Kevin Montgomery.
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