Morris County Corrections Officers Raise Money To Aid Ailing Sheriff's Officer

MORRIS COUNTY, N.J.– The Morris County Bureau of Corrections PBA 298 will be accepting donations for an ill county sheriff's officer, who is battling a rare form of cancer.

Yashira Schiavo is undergoing chemotherapy treatments at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Hackensack until January, Corrections Officer Rodney Furby said in a letter to the PBA.

She will require a stem cell/bone marrow transplant, according to Furby.

A Fundme.com campaign with a $30,000 goal was set up by the family back in September.

The diseases "affects my immune system" and there is "cancer in my bones," Schiavo wrote.

Schiavo is a mother of two whose husband is a Passaic County Sheriff's Officer.

To donate, click here or mail checks to Morris County Corrections Officers PBA Local 298, Care of Yashira Schiavo, P.O. Box 510, Morristown, N.J. 07960.

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