Steve Fonyo, the B.C. cancer survivor who ran across Canada with a prosthetic leg a teen has died at 56, friends and family have confirmed.
Fonyo’s partner Lisa Herbert told Global News they were in the Vancouver area to have his prosthetic foot repaired, when he died just after midnight Friday morning.
She said she returned to their hotel room in Burnaby to find Fonyo having what appeared to be a seizure. Paramedics tried to revive him for more than an hour, but he died in her arms, she said. “He had the biggest heart and he loved people.
That’s why he did what he did,” Herbert said Sunday. “His personality was really big, it filled every room. Everybody that met him, most of them loved him, some of them didn’t like him, but you know you can’t make everyone happy.