JOHNNY GUNTHER DIED AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN FROM A BRAIN TUMOR. EVERYONE NEAR HIM WAS UNFORGETTABLY IMPRESSED BY HIS LEVEL-HEADED COURAGE, HIS WIT AND QUIET FRIENDLINESS, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, BY HIS UNFALTERING PATIENCE THROUGH THE TIME OF DESPAIR AND THOSE FEW HEARTBREAKING DAYS WHEN IT SEEMED, UNBELIEVABLY, THAT ALL W A FATHER’S MEMOIR OF A BRAVE, INTELLIGENT, AND SPIRITUAL BOY IN HIS FIGHT TO OVERCOME A TERRIFYING DISEASE THAT DOCTORS HAD ONLY JUST BEGINNED TO UNDERSTAND AT THE TIME.