Tim Watts never complained. He never asked ‘‘why me’’ or felt sorry for himself. He never quit. But on April 23, 1985, his two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer ended. The former Interlake High School student died from leukemia at his parents home in Bellevue. He was only 18 years old.
Although his illness kept him from attending school for part of his junior and all of his senior year, Tim was a 4.0 student and only two classes away from graduation.
‘‘He was a tremendous student and a super person,’’ said Interlake science teacher, Jerry Akita, who taught Tim chemistry and biology. ‘‘He would miss two and three weeks of school at a time because of his illness,’’ Akita said. ‘‘But he would always come back to class caught up. I couldn’t believe his tenacity. Most people in his position, including myself, would have hung it up. Not Tim, he never quit doing his best.’’
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