EL PASO--- Her story inspired dozens, but one day after a brave local teen lost her battle with cancer, her family and friends granted one of her last wishes Sunday.
Dozens paraded down the streets of a West El Paso neighborhood Sunday, everyone in Mardi Gras attire.
While Mardi Gras is weeks away, the celebration is exactly as Margaret Hussman, 15, wanted it.
"I think it's great," said Amy Hussmann, Margaret's mother. "On her fun list was to have holidays when it wasn't holidays."
Margaret and her family made the fun list after she got some sad news. A rare form of cancer she thought she had beat, had returned.
Among the things she wanted to accomplish before she passed, were skydiving, a trip to New York and owning her own car.
Friday, Margaret rushed home from the hospital, hoping to make her own Mardi Gras parade and sit on a throne made especially for her.
"She would have been the center of attention, and she would have rode that float and she would have rocked it," said her eldest brother Robert.
But Margaret was not able to sit on that throne; she died Saturday of pneumonia.
"Well, the family and her friends got together and we talked about it and said, you know what? We need to have the parade because that's what she wanted," said her father Harry Hussmann.
So they went on with the parade as planned: a float carrying her family, her friends wearing orange, the Franklin High School band playing "When the Saints Go Marching In," and cheerleaders walking with arms linked, they marched down the neighborhood street with nothing but smiles.
"(I feel) sadness, but more happy because everyone's here and they're still going to be rooting for her," said Calder Hussmann, Margaret's twin brother.
And so, by keeping her in their thoughts, these dozens of people fulfilled Margaret's ultimate wish: to have fun.
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