The following was posted yesterday on Facebook by Anthony Finney and is edited for style:

As most of the Roanoke Valley and Southeast, Va., area knows, Dylan Moore was an 8-year-old boy who was battling a rare blood disease known as Fanconi Anemia.

Over this past weekend “young Dylan lost his battle and went home to God. I never knew Dylan personally, but his strength is beyond that of any grown man I have ever known or heard of. He inspired an entire town, a county, even a region of North Carolina and Virginia to love, believe, hope, and care,” Finney noted. “And for this, I believe the city of Roanoke Rapids should recognize the courage that this young man displayed by honoring him with a city-wide, annual, Dylan Moore Day. Join me in this task to never let the memory of young Dylan fade from our thoughts.”

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Web site: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/dylan

It was noted at the Web site there will be an informal memorial service for Dylan today at 3:30 p.m. in the Meditation Place on the 7th floor of the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital where the boy was being treated.