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Monday, December 3, 2012

Calling Hours, Funeral Service Announced for Neighbor Brigade Co-Founder

The Neighbor Brigade co-founder and well known wife and mother died on Dec. 2. Pam Washek's services will be held in Weston later this week.

The family of Pam Washek has scheduled calling hours and funeral services for Washek later this week in Weston. Washek's husband, Kevin, said calling hours will take place Thursday, Dec. 6 from 4 p.m.-8 p.m., and funeral services will take place the next day, Dec. 7, at 10 a.m. Both calling hours and services will take place at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Weston and both are open to the public. Washek passed away Sunday, Dec. 2, after a long battle with cancer. She is well known in Weston and many other communities for her connection to Neighbor Brigade, an organization she co-founded with her friend Jean Seiden in 2003 as both women were undergoing treatment for cancer. Neighbor Brigade was designed to provide a network of …

Neighbor Brigade Co-Founder Pam Washek Loses Battle with Cancer

Pam Washek died Sunday, Dec. 2. She co-founded Neighbor Brigade, which now operates more than 30 chapters across the state, including one in Weston.

A wife and mother and volunteering icon has died after a 10-year battle with cancer. Pam Washek, the co-founder of the Wayland Angel Food Network (now the Neighbor Brigade), passed away Dec. 2, according to an obituary published on Boston.com. Weston is one of more than 30 towns and cities in Massachusetts in which a Neighbor Brigade chapter now operates. Washek and fellow Wayland resident Jean Seiden came together in the midst of their individual cancer treatments to found, in 2003, the Wayland Angel Food Network, a group dedicated to organizing neighbors to provide meals for one another in times of need and crisis. According to Washek's message on the Neighbor Brigade website, the Wayland Angel Food Network quickly evolved to include …

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