This Go Fund Me is in Memory of Rocco Iiniwa Conway, who passed June 18, 2023, after bravely battling cancer.

My family and I would like to make sure there are a minimum of 80 beautiful leis for Rocco’s Celebration of Life and funeral services, as well as shirts and hoodies to commemorate and honor him for our family and close friends . Please, if you could donate any amount to help my family lay our little guy to rest while helping us through this emotionally hard time.

In December at the age of 15 2022, my little brother Rocco was diagnosed with stage 3 Ewing’s Sarcoma. Rocco now 16 years old, a young man who showed great strength living with a cancer that had started in his ribs, and spread to become a larger sized tumor on his right lung. Rocco had endured a regimen of intensive chemo every week, sometimes only 2 days of a break, but Rocco was a fighter, as he also had undergone a long battle of proton radiation, as well as had traveled a very long emotional road from such a young age. Rocco was only 7 when our mother Lindsey Lucas was murdered. Rocco stopped going to school, struggled mentally to find a way to cope. He found a love for video games as his only escape. Minecraft, Legos, and Sky Landers were his pride and joy. Gaming brought Rocco peace, his Mental Health Struggle was Real, finding it hard to have the motivation to get lifesaving blood products, energy to go to the clinic, even if it was a shorter day to just check his levels, let alone eat from all the pain and sickness…

Growing up people made fun of his weight, but one thing Rocco was most thankful for during this process was his weight. He would say “you know it’s funny something I would get bullied for is what’s saving my life” i would just look at him in Awe and shock and cry knowing he was right. Something that brought him so much pain and tears was actually helping save his life.

    Rocco was taken from our family way too soon due to being neutropenic from his disease and then becoming septic june 08, 2023. He showed great strength, emotion and bravery throughout his fight while trying to remain positive that he would find a way to overcome this disease that had stolen his chance to live beyond 16 years old. His dad and us his two sisters by his side constantly, praying for our guy to sit up and flip us off like he had the first few days of being intubated but he didn’t… and he now couldn’t.  We know now that my baby brother was gone and is at peace with our mother…. I know in my Heart, my baby brother never had gotten the chance to choose the quality of his life, as his life was stolen, instead he got to choose to let go from everything that he would have had to deal with and go be with our mother. Myself and my family are left trying to accept this to allow Rocco Peace and Mind, knowing his struggle is over.

I love you Rocco Iiniwa Conway my sweet sweet boy, I will forever and always love you till my last breath️ I will make sure your name FOREVER lives on... my baby boy… my gamer … my troll... my guy

And thank you to those who are here to support us through this hard time ..