Christopher John Williams Funk, age 36, passed away on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 at the HospiceCare Center in Fitchburg after 8 1/2 years of living positively and gracefully with brain cancer. In 2004, Chris and his wife Brandi founded HEADRUSH, an outdoor celebration/fundraising event and brain tumor awareness/research nonprofit organization. In May 2008, HEADRUSH endowed Wisconsin’s first-ever brain tumor research professorship award at the UW Carbone Cancer Center.
Office of Strategic Communication