The philanthropist Cherry Starr, the late wife of former Green Bay Packers coach and quarterback Bart Starr, passed away. She was eighty-nine.
The couple was closely involved with Rawhide youngsters Services, an organization that assists at-risk youngsters, and they released a video memorializing Cherry Starr, stating that she passed away on Tuesday.
In an online obituary, The Starr Children’s Fund, an endowment the Starrs established to support research on children cancer, stated that she died quietly at home in Birmingham, Alabama. The cause of death was not stated in the obituary.
She has been battling “various forms of cancer for many, many years,” according to her son Bart Starr, Jr., who spoke with WBAY-TV.
Before Bart passed away in 2019, Cherry and Bart were high school sweethearts and were married for more than 60 years.
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In addition to winning the first and second Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968, he guided the Packers to league titles in 1961, 1962, 1965, and 1966. In 1966, he won the NFL MVP award, and in 1977, he was admitted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In addition, he led the Packers as their head coach from 1975 until 1983.
The pair chaired the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation’s Golf Classic honorably for 44 years, according to the Starr Children’s Fund website. Following Bart’s passing, Cherry carried on his custom of contacting each NFL starting quarterback at the start of the season to request an autographed helmet that would be auctioned off during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September.
The former vice president of player personnel for the Packers, Andrew Brandt, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday, saying, “Just the sweetest presence ever when she came through our offices.”
“She would always talk about how much she missed getting up there, until her last breath,” he remarked. “I mentioned in the obituary I wrote today following her death that two of her favorite travel destinations were not Hawaii or Alaska.” The destination was Green Bay.
“We were aware that Mom had been battling multiple cancers for an extended period of time, and we knew that the combined impact of the cancer and the treatments would eventually have a negative impact on her health,” he continued.
“We weren’t gullible about it, and the good news is she battled it for a very long time; her health really only started to decline in the last few weeks.” “I hope we’re all that lucky to have made it to nearly 90 years old with only a real struggle of two to three weeks,” the speaker said.
