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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Neighbor Brigade Co-Founder Pam Washek Loses Battle with Cancer

Pam Washek died Sunday, Dec. 2.

A wife and mother and volunteering icon has died after a 10-year battle with cancer. Pam Washek, the co-founder of the Wayland Angel Food Network (now the Neighbor Brigade), passed away Dec. 2, according to an obituary published on Boston.com. Today, Wayland's chapter of Neighbor Brigade is just one of more than 30 in the state of Massachusetts. There is also a chapter operating in Nashua, N.H., as the only non-Massachusetts chapter at this time. Concord's Neighbor Brigade chapter became one of the founding chapters in 2011, growing out of the Concord-Carlisle Angles group Concord resident resident Lynda Voghel started in June 2006. Washek and fellow Wayland resident Jean Seiden came together in the midst of their individual cancer …

Judy Boyle

7:52 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Quick Correction: Calling hours are Thursday, Dec. 6 from 4 p.m.-8 p.m., and funeral services are set for Dec. 7, at 10 a.m. Both calling hours and services will take place at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Weston, Mass   more ›

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