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Adele Grace Rivas

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TRIBUTE: Bergen County Mom Fought Cancer With Dignity, Grace -- Both Times TRIBUTE: Bergen County Mom Fought Cancer With Dignity, Grace -- Both Times
Tribute: Bergen County Mom Fought Cancer With Dignity, Grace -- Both Times Genuine. Kind. Tenacious. This is how people are remembering Adele Grace Rivas of Midland Park, formerly of Bergenfield, who died on May 31 after a second battle with cancer. She was 40 years old. The day Adele received her first breast cancer diagnosis was the day she discovered she was pregnant with her miracle baby, Constantino "Tino" V. Rivas. Her second diagnosis came in 2017 -- Stage 4 metastatic. Those who knew her said she fought with dignity and grace. "‘Grace!’ So fitting a name," Remi Soyombo said on her obituary. "Adele....you were full of it. So beautiful inside and out.  "…

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by Cecilia Levine