Leroy Sievers passes away: Veteran journalist for ABC, author of My Cancer blog, and my uncle

I received some sad news today– I found out that my uncle (my mom’s younger brother), Leroy Sievers, passed away last night. Uncle Leroy had been battling colon cancer for the past seven years, and wrote a blog about his battle with his cancer on NPR titled “My Cancer.” Dad wrote a blog post this morning about how he is going to remember my uncle.

One memory that I had of Uncle Leroy was corresponding with him when I was thinking about going on for graduate school in public relations. When I was applying to USC for grad school, Uncle Leroy was a visiting professor at Annenberg School for Communication, and I remember telling him that I was applying to the PR program. Uncle Leroy worked for ABC as an executive producer for Nightline and had worked as a journalists, and he said that it was a great program, and of course had to mention what he thought of PR people being a journalist. 🙂 It’s all good. 🙂