Relay for Life raises $83,000
PHOTOS: ROBERT GONZALEZ

A crowd of more than 600 persons set up tents and rallied a battle cry against cancer m Friday night at Mauldin Field in Jacksonville. Relay for Life raised more than $83,000 on behalf of the American Cancer Society.

Rita Wiggins of Rusk stands next to her sister, Jewel Spence, right, and her niece Betty l Wilson, left. All three women are cancer survivors and have had a daughter and another sister die from the same disease.