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Chas Bunting was the owner of a trucking company and local businessman for many years. Married to Barbara for 34 years. He had one son, Ian, and two step-sons, Karl and Eric, and two grandchildren. He was born on 8/24/43. In October of 2018, at the age of 75, he finally was able to sell his business and retire and was looking forward to enjoying his retirement. He started noticing memory problems and gait problems, so he started down the path of trying to find out what was going on. It took a while, but in February of 2018 the doctor's suspected Parkinson's, but it wasn't until June of 2019 that Parkinson's was confirmed -- only four months after he retired. If that wasn't bad enough, he had started going to a urologist at the end of 2017 about urinary frequency who put him on oxybutynin. He was dealing with that problem all the way until November of 2020 when it was discovered he had a bladder tumor. It took the medical professionals two months until they could remove the bladder tumor and he started chemotherapy and radiation from February of 2021 through March of 2021. All of their follow-up's showed lung nodules on PET Scan's and CT Scans, but in May of 2022, his bladder cancer had metastasized to his lungs, liver, brain. He was admitted to the hospital on May 11th and was discharged home on Hospice Care on May 19th. He passed at home on May 28th. Although Chas died from a very aggressive form of bladder cancer, the Parkinson's was the disease he struggled with for over 4 years. It was Parkinson's that took his mobility away from him. We don't have much hope that cancer will be cured since it is such a big industry now. If a cure for cancer is ever found, I don't have much confidence that we will ever be given the cure. However, I do believe that the people involved in research for curing or, at least, managing Parkinson's have a much better chance of actually finding a breakthrough or treatment. I pray everyday for this because it is one of the worst diseases a person can get and have to deal with.