Community Rallies For Springfield Track Coach Battling Cancer

SPRINGFIELD, PA — Springfield High School track coach Louie Durham is in a fight against liver cancer and due to changes in his employment is having trouble keeping up.

Durham, who works two jobs, recently found out he will no longer be paid at one of the jobs.

So his fiancé launched a crowdfunding campaign to help support him in his fight.

"The medical and household bills are going to keep coming in," fiancé Angel Gregg said on a GoFundMe Page for Durham. "Hope for Louie is to raise enough money to relieve at least one of those burdens. To be honest we haven't even looked at one medical bill yet. Just trying to focus on getting to ring that chemo bell and pray to put this in our past."

So far, the community has generated nearly $9,000 to help Durham in two days' time.

The campaign's goal is listed at $20,000.

"Anyone that knows Louie can honestly say he is a great guy," Gregg wrote. "He has one of the biggest hearts and always does for others. We have a big family and Louie stepped up with all my children. We also have a baby boy Xavier together, who is 3 and daycare is a very big expense. "

See here to support Durham's battle.