‘Research funded, lives extended, and hope delivered’

‘Research funded, lives extended, and hope delivered’

LEOMINSTER — Passionately crusading for a cure for breast cancer over the last two decades comes from a very personal place for Kathy DiRusso and the longtime city resident has no signs of slowing down. The 65-year-old said she “felt called to action” after losing two family members to breast cancer. DiRusso first did the Susan G. Komen 3-Day fundraiser in 2002 to honor her Aunt Carol Lambert, whose life was cut short by the disease, and then th…