Alex Trebek’s Household Honors The Legend In A Enormous Means

Alex Trebek’s household honored the late “Jeopardy” host Wednesday by making a most cancers analysis fund in his identify.

Trebek’s spouse, Jean, and his daughter, Emily, teamed up with Katie Couric’s Stand Up To Most cancers (SU2C) basis to launch The Alex Trebek Fund. “Alex knew that information equaled energy. He was a person that basically cherished to know issues and stayed very curious,” Jean stated in an announcement, based on CNN. She famous the fund is “a means for the neighborhood that cherished him to place assets straight into the palms of scientists working tirelessly to struggle a illness shrouded by many unknowns.”

Stand Up To Most cancers launched a video on social media, providing extra data on the brand new fund created in Trebek’s honor.

Photos of the late sport present host all through his profession flashed within the video, reminding followers of Trebek’s decades-long contribution to “Jeopardy.” The slideshow of photographs coincided with quick snippets of interviews with Jean and Emily.

Emily stated she hopes “all the followers and neighborhood of ‘Jeopardy!’ actually can lean in and present help for this.”

She added that “Jeopardy” followers had beforehand proven “a lot help for my dad when he was going by way of his most cancers remedies.”

The Trebek household launched their new initiative in November, to mark the beginning of Pancreatic Most cancers Consciousness Month.

They goal to “speed up vital analysis with the objective of higher treating pancreatic most cancers, which has the best mortality fee of all main cancers,” based on an announcement launched to CNN.

The fund has already obtained over $1 million in contributions. (RELATED: Well-known Actor From ‘Shaft’ Useless At 81)

Trebek introduced his stage 4 pancreatic most cancers prognosis in March 2019. He died in November 2020 on the age of 80.

Followers wishing to donate can discover extra data right here.