Kathryn Powell | Brave & Beautiful
A divorced mom of sons Angelo, 28, and Nicholas, 22, and grandmother of 6-year-old Kaivyn, Kathryn “Kathy” Powell has worked as a supervisor at TimkenSteel for 22 years.
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Amanda Ott | Brave & Beautiful
Amanda Ott, 44-year-old financial controller of operations at TimkenSteel, lived a lifestyle too healthy to allow a disease such as cancer to enter into it.
Melanie Begue | Brave & Beautiful
Melanie Begue had a moment of self-revelation when she discovered a lump on her breast in August 2019. “I have had a lot of things throughout my life that have been a little bit traumatic. I try and let things bounce off my back,” said Begue. “When I found the lump, I knew what it was. I knew it wasn’t an everyday cyst. I knew I had to stay mentally clear, otherwise I never would have been able to physically fight it.”
Elizabeth Amireh | Brave & Beautiful
When Elizabeth Amireh’s son was away at college when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in the fall of 2014, she hesitated in telling him. “I didn’t want him to see everything I went through; I didn’t want him to worry,” she explained. “My mom did the same thing for me. She tried not to make her situation seem as bad as it was.”
Don Williams | Brave & Beautiful
“It’s the last thing a man is going to think of,” said Don Williams, a survivor of breast cancer. A retired crane operator at the Timken Co., Williams underwent a mastectomy in 2013 after being diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.
Erica Newman & Paula Breedlove | Brave & Beautiful
It’s great when mothers and daughters have things in common—but not in every case. Consider the case of Paula Breedlove and her daughter, Erica Newman, a mother-daughter duo from East Sparta who are breast cancer survivors.
Judy Provo | Brave & Beautiful
Judy Provo wasn’t about to let breast cancer slow her down. The Ontario, Canada, native and longtime Canton resident loves to travel. It was after an annual beach trip that she sought out a doctor about a weird symptom: Whenever she’d wear a bathing suit, she’d feel the sun burning a specific spot on her chest.
Margo Jackson | Brave & Beautiful
Margo Jackson isn’t going to let anyone go through this alone. Jackson, 60, remembers sitting in the waiting room at Aultman Hospital, waiting for her turn to start chemotherapy, and overhearing heartbreaking conversations from other patients.
Kelly Crawford | Brave & Beautiful
Kelly Crawford of North Canton is much more than a cancer survivor. She’s a warrior. In October of 2011, Crawford was enjoying life as a newlywed of five months when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Kristin Worley | Brave & Beautiful
Kristin Worley did everything right. Worley, 42, has no family history of breast cancer but still actively took steps to avoid it. She breast fed, eschewed antiperspirants, never wore underwire bras and avoided getting a mammogram, mistakenly thinking they did more harm than good.
