Ginny Clements was just 15-years-old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now she lives cancer free and is helping others through the Ginny L. Clements Breast Cancer Research Institute.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Ginny Clements was just 15 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Clements says the doctors told her they had to get it out, adding, “The next morning I woke up and I didn’t have a breast, I didn’t have lymph nodes, and I didn’t have a muscle on the breast.”That was back in 1956. She continued high school like any other teenage girl. We didn’t talk about it. Nobody in the school ever asked me a thing at all.” But it’s something she always thought about.
But those thoughts quickly disappeared when she met her first husband, Bill Clements. “He asked me to get married 2 and a half weeks after we met. We were married 3 months later,” says Clements. In 1995, Bill passed away after losing his battle with lung cancer. At that time, Ginny had still never spoken about her own cancer journey.
That’s when she started the Ginny L. Clements Breast Cancer Fund. Every year she donated $50 to breast cancer researchers.Ginny went on to sell Golden Eagle Distributors, leaving her with some extra money. “I decided I wanted to make a difference.”
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