Memorial for Late Seaholm Student, Collin Trask, Set for Tuesday

Collin Trask passed away in mid-February after a long battle with cancer.

Seaholm to Host Memorial for Late Senior, Collin Trask

Colin Trask passed away on Feb. 19 and will be honored during a memorial at Seaholm High School on March 19.

The Seaholm High School community will gather later this month to honor the life of one student who remains an inspiration even after his early death — Collin Trask. Seaholm will host a memorial service for Trask at 7 p.m. March 19, Superintendent Daniel Nerad announced at Tuesday's school board meeting. The 18-year-old Trask passed away on Feb. 19 after a long battle with cancer. Trask would have graduated from Seaholm this spring. Diagnosed in seventh grade, Trask suffered from a medulloblastoma, a kind of brain tumor that lodged itself in Trask's brain and spinal cord. Trask was a longtime hero in the Seaholm community, with students showing their support over the years through candlelight vigils, fundraisers and on social media, using …

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Seaholm Remembers Collin Trask With Words, Photos and Music

A funeral service for Trask will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Birmingham.

  For so many at Seaholm High School, Collin Trask was more than a classmate. For so many, Trask — who passed away Tuesday after a long battle with cancer — was an inspiration. "To know you even for a little while is a blessing and you will forever be an inspiration," Brooke Jackson tweeted on Tuesday. She was one of hundreds of students and community members who took to social media to remember Trask, a football fan once described by the Seaholm Highlander as "the toughest kid at Seaholm." Diagnosed in seventh grade, Trask suffered from a medulloblastoma, a kind of brain tumor that lodged itself in Trask's brain and spinal cord. After suffering a stroke on Jan. 15, Trask passed away around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to his Care …

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Seaholm Senior Loses Long Battle With Cancer

Collin Trask, who was diagnosed with a meduloblastoma in his brain and spinal cord when he was in seventh grade, passed away Tuesday. He was 18 years old.

The hearts of many in the Seaholm High School community are hurting this week after senior Collin Trask, 18, passed away Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. Diagnosed in seventh grade, Trask suffered from a medulloblastoma, a kind of brain tumor that lodged itself in Trask's brain and spinal cord. After suffering a stroke on Jan. 15, Trask passed away around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to his Care Pages profile. Trask turned 18 years old Jan. 16 and would have graduated from Seaholm this spring. Trask is the son of John and Myra Trask of Troy. He also leaves behind his older sister Patty and his grandparents Jack and Dorothy Trask and Evelyn Gibbons. Trask was a longtime hero in the Seaholm community, with students showing their…

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Kim Lifton

10:10 am on Saturday, February 23, 2013

Collin, may your soul rest in peace; may your life, cut too short, be a blessing for those who knew you, and for those of us who never had the opportunity to know you. I will keep you and your family in my prayers, and in my heart. I hope to learn something from the wise words you spoke to the Highlander last year.   more ›