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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Nancy Lawton — Keeping alive the memory of Douglas Lawton
Description: Nancy Lawton has kept the memory of her husband, Douglas, alive with an annual golf outing that celebrates him and raises funds for worthy causes. Douglas Lawton, who was raised in Guilderland Center, followed in his father’s footsteps, serving in the volunteer fire department there. His fellow firefighters, whom Nancy Lawton refers to as a “brotherhood,” suggested the tournament after he died in 2014. Lawton speaks with honesty and strength in this week’s podcast, about her husband’s courageous three-year battle with a rare form of colon cancer and about her life as a widow. She finds great joy and comfor...