"In It to End It"
After losing a brother and a sister to breast cancer, a Lawrenceville woman walks to help bring an end to breast cancer.
Breast cancer is not just a disease that affects women. No one knows that better than Tonya Stokes. In 2003, she lost her sister Velma Stacker to the disease—just four years after losing her brother Edward Williams, Jr. to breast cancer as well. After having two siblings succumb to breast cancer, Stokes decided to commit to finding a cure for the deadly disease. In 1999, she took that step. That was same year she started working in the Avon distribution center in Suwanee as an administrative assistant. She volunteered to be a team captain for the makeup maker’s Walk for Breast Cancer. This is her tenth year taking part in the walk and her fourth year as a walker. Every October, Stokes and her team heads up to Charlotte, North Carolina to …
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