Days After Community Vigil, Andrew Weishar Dies at 21

Andrew Weishar, 21, has died after a three-year battle with colorectal cancer. 

Weishar, a graduate of St. Damian in Oak Forest and Brother Rice, was a football player for the Crusaders and continued to play after entering college at Illinois Wesleyan. 

On Oct. 6 friends and neighbors held a candlelight vigil for the young man outside his home. 

Read: All for Andrew: Community Rallies around Man in Fight for His Life

"This kid is facing the fight of his life, yet he tells the hospice nurses, 'I'm not done fighting.'"  said Joe Conway, one of the vigil's organizers last week. "His will to live and survive is an incredible strength. You've got to believe God has a plan for all of this.  It already has by bringing us all together." 

A wake for Andrew will be held from 3 to 9 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 15 at Brother Rice High School, in the South Gym, according to Brother Rice High School Campus Minister Brother Paul Ickes. 

A funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 16, at St. Damian Church in Oak Forest.

There will be no classes at Brother Rice on Tuesday, Oct. 16, to allow students, faculty and staff to attend the funeral. 

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