The students in Hampton Gaddis’s third-grade class were in shock when she chopped off her hair Friday at Sutton Elementary School.
Hampton Gaddis, a third-grade student at Sutton Elementary, gets her locks chopped off for cancer. @SESRoadrunners Read the story at https://t.co/kxmeksDUyi pic.twitter.com/4HeMScTvZO
— Owensboro Times (@OwensboroTimes) March 13, 2020
Gaddis had told her parents about six months ago she wanted to support a friend who was diagnosed with cancer by donating her hair to Locks of Love, a charity that makes wigs for children with alopecia and cancer.
“We have a lot of conversations about real-life in our house and this was one of those things where we talked about,” Cate Gaddis, Hampton’s mother said. “She realized that she could make a difference, and it was something she wanted to do. And she came up with it on her own.”
Gaddis has since been growing her hair out to reach 10 inches, which was the minimum required length.
“I feel really good,” she said. “It was a little nerve-wracking but it was okay.”
Hampton chose her cousin, Kalin Phelps, who used to be a licensed hairstylist, to cut her hair.
Phelps divided Hampton’s hair into pigtails and chopped one off at a time.
“I felt honored to be asked,” Phelps said. “I was excited to do it for her.”
