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Sep 23, 2008 7:25 pm US/Mountain

'Light The Night Walk' Honors Patti R. Kaufmann

Walk Will Be Held Thursday Night

DENVER (CBS4) ― On Thursday night, thousands of people will again take steps toward a cure for leukemia and lymphoma. It's the 10th annual "Light the Night Walk" in Washington Park. This year the walk honors a courageous woman who helped get it started.

Friends and family say Patti Robinson Kaufmann was courageous, optimistic and caring. Now the people she touched are bracing for an emotional event without her.

"I remember the first time I met Patti. We were actually sitting right there at that table," said friend Marnie Miller.

It was 2006 and Miller had just finished treatment for lymphoma. Patti was already a survivor.

"She was so warm and she was so giving and so selfless," Miller said.

They made an instant connection over coffee.

"She would always share her experiences with you, but it wasn't about her, it was how she could make you feel better," Miller said.

It was devastating when Patti died in July of complications of her lymphoma.

"I think about Patti that she was put on this Earth to help people and that's what she did," said Eddie Robinson, Patti's father.

Eddie said he thinks of his middle daughter every day.

"She was a wonderful human being. I don't think it would be hard to manufacture a human being with such feeling," he said.

Patti worked for 16 years in the family dairy business and then made fighting blood cancers her cause. Just a year ago, CBS4 reported on Patti dialing for dollars for research and patient aid. She grew the annual Light the Night Walk from 200 to 4,000 people. She united family, friends and fellow survivors.

Patti's legacy is love and hope and stepping ever closer to a cure.

"I saw Patti 10 days before she died," CBS4's Kathy Walsh said. "Although she was very sick, she offered me help for a friend who had just been diagnosed with lymphoma. Patti was incredibly unselfish."

Patti first asked Walsh to Emcee the walk about 6 years ago. She will do it again this year in her honor.

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