Angels Among Us...

My aunt, Margie Sborov is a real life angel.

In 2001, Margie founded Angel Foundation to assist cancer patients with non medical needs. Out of work due to chemo and need money or assistance in buying groceries? Has your mortgage lapsed because you have been too sick? Need to find counseling for the kids because they are so devastated with the prognosis that has been handed to you by this horrific disease?

Enter Angel Foundation.


Margie Sborov, founder of Angel Foundation


This year Angel Foundation celebrates 10 years of helping cancer patients and their families, and Margie has certainly earned her wings. As a teenager, Margie lost her boyfriend to leukemia and knew she would never be the same again. "It is in my soul to help these people", she says as she works tirelessly to help ease the pain of these patients and their families.

Mr. C and I also lost a dear friend to leukemia in 2000. It is difficult to comprehend what this disease does not only do to the body, but the spirit, until you are forced to witness it first hand. Complete devastation, not only to the patient, but those around them does not even begin to describe what cancer is capable of. Christian was a young man with an extremely small family, he was not married and did not have children. I often think about how his disease would have affected a wife, small children, his ability to provide for a family emotionally and financially and how an organization such as Angel Foundation could have benefited him. This disease is all consuming and evil at every stage, and unfortunately in many cases, unforgiving. After being in and out of hospitals for the better part of a year, our friend Christian could not function, let alone work. His final stay at the Stanford hospital was four months long, and he never returned home to put his affairs in order. He passed away on May 29th, 2000. Each year we make a donation in his name to Angel Foundation, and this year we will again attend the Angel Awards to honor those that fight for cancer patients and their families.

Everyone knows someone that has passed away or is living with cancer right now. Honor that person and those that have fought to help them Saturday, January 22nd, at the The Angel Awards at the Minneapolis Hilton.

Christian Dehon

March 26th, 1970- May 29th, 2000