Remembering Candace Coffee

BAKERSFIELD, CA - A local stem cell research activist who battled a rare auto immune disease passed away last week, leaving behind two young sons. Candace Coffee was a Bakersfield native and Miss Bakersfield 2003. Her father said due to his daughter's condition and stricken immune system, she contracted several diseases which resulted in her death.
Coffee hoped one day she would be cured of her disease, Neuromyelitis Optica or Devics. The debilitating disease is very similar to Multiple Scleros