Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Bostick, Charles William (Buck) April 24, 2003
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Bastrop Daily Enterprise - Apr 24, 2003
Charles William (Buck) Bostick, the Bastrop youth baseball player that the
entire community rallied around, lost his battle with cancer Thursday morning.
The eight-year-old Bostick died at his residence in Monroe at 3:30 a.m. today.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 26 at 10 a.m. in the Mulhearn
Funeral Home Chapel, Sterlington Road in Monroe, with the Rev. Doug Allen
officiating. Burial will be in Mulhearn Memorial Cemetery.

Bostick attended Morehouse Magnet School where he was in the third grade.

Bostick was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a form of liver cancer, is October,
2001. Surgery was performed to move the cancer.

Returning to the doctor for a routine check-up in April, 2002, he was diagnosed
with a relapse. A second surgery was performed a month later at St. Jude's
Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. To help defray medical costs
Bastrop/Morehouse Dixie Youth Baseball put on a benefit tournament June 8-9 at
Carter Park.

League officials were hoping Buck, who was scheduled to return home after
undergoing a round of chemotherapy treatments at LSU Medical Center in
Shreveport, would be able to attend the tournament. To everyone's amazement, he
not only attended but showed up dressed in his Moeller's uniform.

Moeller's coach Randy Bennett was understandably apprehensive about putting
Bostick in the lineup, but his mother, Kathryn McDuffie, assured him that it was
okay.

Bennett penciled Bostick in as the leadoff batter to make sure he got his turn
at bat. It turned out to be an unnecessary gesture. Not only did Bostick play
the entire game in the Saturday afternoon heat, he returned to play in Sunday's
game. In fact, Bostick stroked a base hit during Sunday's game.

The tournament was an overwhelming success as the community pulled together for
the event.

"An elderly woman came up to the gate and handed me a $100 bill," said
Bastrop-Morehouse DYB vice-president Wendell May, who was collecting money at
the gate. "I didn't have change for a hundred, and she said, 'It's such a good
cause, ya'll just keep it."

In another instance, a teenage boy walked up to the gate and handed May $75.

"When I asked him who it was from, he said, 'Us,' walked off and jumped in his
vehicle and drove off."

"This is something the Lord put together, and it's his work," said Jay Gillikin,
president of the Bastrop-Morehouse Rookie League, shortly after the benefit had
ended.

Last October, Bostick flew to California and attended a World Series game
between the San Francisco Giants and California Angels. Barry Bonds was one of
his favorite players.

Survivors include his father, Charles Ray Bostick; his mother, Kathryn McDuffie;
three sisters, Caroline Rose Bostick, Christi Farrar, and Nacole Crawford; his
maternal grandmother, Margie Pesnell McDuffie; and his paternal grandmother,
Mary Christine Bostick Boone.

He was preceded in death by his grandfathers, George W. (Buck) McDuffie and
Phillip Ray Bostick.

Pallbearers will be Brad McCormick, Bob Rendina, Andy Richards, James Blackwell,
Phillip Ray Bostick Jr., and Wayne Bing.

Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Friday at Mulhearn Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital.

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