Milford family grieves loss of 12-year-old daughter, asks community to place soccer cleats in her honor NBC Connecticut [Video]

A Milford family is working through the grief of losing their young daughter to a terminal cancer tumor. 

Avery Lafferty was raised in Milford where she grew up surrounded by a loving family and a strong support system via her ski and soccer teams.

She is described by her parents as a person who would bring people together and put smiles on their faces. 

However, Avery’s life and her family’s life was dramatically changed in December of 2021 when she was diagnosed with diffuse midline glioma, a terminal brain cancer at the young age of nine.

It was from that moment that her parents began doing research to treat their daughter due to there not currently being a cure.

“The medications and treatments she went on were all clinical trials so we had to navigate with hospitals, institutions, evaluating trials, all of which weren’t a guarantee for a cure, it …