Umatilla senior to graduate in top of her class despite challenge this year

<p>Umatilla senior Stephanie Klucas will graduate with her class today despite having to complete her first semester of the year online while living in Arizona with her family while her father was being treated for cancer.</p>

Umatilla High School senior Stephanie Klucas was cruising to graduation up almost until the start of her senior year, when she and her family received terrible news about her father’s health.

Two days after school got out last year, Klucas said her father learned the cause of the hip pain that had been troubling him for quite some time. Doctors diagnosed him with a progressive form of cancer, and he was told he needed a bone marrow transplant.

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