Early Thursday morning, after 16 months putting up an incredible fight, Gabe Perkins died at the University of Iowa Children?s Hospital.
Gabe would have been a 2nd grader at Jane Addams Elementary School in Moline. The entire school and a big part of the Quad City community had rallied around him, holding fundraisers like ??Going Green for Gabe??. Green was his favorite color.
After he had a stem cell transplant at the University of Wisconsin in Madison earlier this year, there was hope. He chatted via Skype with his classmates and teacher from his hospital, in isolation, 170 miles away.