Shaktoolik boy whose last wish was for another Christmas with family dies
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Jacob Takak, the 4-year-old Shaktoolik boy whose dying wish for one last Christmas with his family was granted in February, died Friday, just two days shy of his fifth birthday.
Jacob died in Shaktoolik surrounded by his family. He suffered from muscular dystrophy and cancer.
Reporter Jason Lamb and photographer Dan Carpenter told Jacob's story in March. Read the story and watch the video here. Funeral plans are pending.
Jacob's grandmother, Ethel Fuller, read a prepared statement from Shaktoolik on behalf of the Takak family:
In this hour of remembrance, we -- Charles, Charmaine, Brad, Amber and Maia Takak -- would like to thank you all from far and near for prayers and thoughts of sorrow for our dear baby, baby brother and son.
Sorry we can't name you all, for we feel if we leave anyone out, it makes for a bad feeling. So we, the family of Jacob Takak, thank you all.
Every prayer was a difference. They eased every feeling we had during our last days with baby Jacob.
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