Golf Tournament Will Honor Father of Revere Middle School Teacher

Todd Casey and his brothers want the world to know how fast someone you love can slip away -- from something that likely took hold before any of them were even born.

Terry Casey, Todd's dad, noticed a lump under his arm in January. By May, the 63-year-old father of three was dead from metastatic melanoma.

"It was a very nasty, aggressive form," said Todd Casey, who teaches 7th grade language arts at . "He had a mole he thought went away. Really it didn't disappear. According to the American Cancer Society there were 70,230 new cases of melanoma in 2011, and 8,790 deaths attributed to the disease. 

Casey's sons have organized the first Terry Casey Memorial Golf Outing to benefit the March on Melanoma Foundation this Friday at Raintree Country Club. The cost is $100 per golfer, $400 per team.

Todd Casey said the money will go to families who have to pay for treatment associated with the disease. The brothers also want to make people aware that many people with melanoma often get the disease as a result of sun damage sustained decades earlier. 

"It's staggering," Todd Casey said. "Eighty percent of the sun damage people get, they get before age 18. I didn't think about that before. We want people to know, and to know what they can do to stay safe." 

Terry Casey was the father of three, grandfather of one,  a football hero, a quarterback at Akron North High school. He worked in Akron all his life and was set to retire from Omnova Solutions last June.

If you go: The Terry Casey Memorial Golf Outing begins at 8:30 a.m. at Raintree Country Club, 4350 Mayfair Rd., Uniontown. Online registration is available here. 

Information about preventing melanoma is available here.

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