A 19-year-old Manitowoc resident had a pretty cool experience before he passed away from cancer earlier this week.
Parker Vogt was a basketball player at Manitowoc Lutheran High School, and his uncle Jeff Vogt says after a graduation party he was feeling some sciatic pain and went to the doctor to get help.
The doctor unfortunately found a cancerous tumor on his hip.
After starting chemotherapy, things started to get better for some time.
But the cancer would come back and attack his bone marrow and later other parts of his body.
Jeff says chemotherapy stopped working, and Parker made the tough decision to go into hospice care.
But when he came home, there were plans made for Parker to go to Lambeau Field to get an exclusive tour.
“My brother and my sister and their two kids and my mother and sister-in-law’s mother went up to Lambeau Field,” Jeff told Seehafer News. “General Manager Brian Gutekunst gave them a personal tour of Lambeau Field and took them into different places where the general public isn’t allowed.”
After the tour, Parker and his family got to go see the Green Bay Packers practice.
During practice, Parker got to me with Head Coach Matt LaFleur and after practice, he got to meet with some of the Packer players.
“Jordan Love spent a little bit more time with him and he was able to talk with him,” Vogt says. “He got to meet the whole team and there’s a video actually from when they were there and a few pictures and stuff.”
Parker died on Tuesday morning after his battle with cancer.
