Teal to Remember: Who Do You Know With Ovarian Cancer?

As part of September's National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, the City of Oak Forest has tied teal ribbons around the community. It's a way to encourage women to take the proper steps in preventing the disease and to look out for signs and symptoms.

But the ribbons also serve as ways to honor those suffering from ovarian cancer, as well as those who have been taken by the disease.

Resident Peggy S. Bates Miller posted the following message on the Oak Forest Patch Facebook page:

The Family of Christine (Judy) Bates would like to thank you for displaying Teal Ribbons throughout Oak Forest for the Month of September for Awareness of this Silent Cancer (Ovarian Cancer). Mom lost her Battle on August 10th, 2013. She fought for 5 years. Her journey was long and hard for her. The compassion you have shown is GREATLY APPRECIATED. You gave our Family such an HONOR that you displayed Teal Ribbons at her Residence … and down her block as well. It was BEAUTIFUL.
The teal ribbons aren't the only way to recognize family and friends who have suffered from ovarian cancer.

Patch wants to give Oak Forest residents the chance to remember those women in their lives with the disease by sharing their names in the comments section. Leave a note for someone dealing with treatment now or write a remembrance to someone who lost her battle with ovarian cancer.

Oak Forest residents can go to the website of the state chapter of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition for more information.