Wayland Patch 12/3/12: Neighbor Brigade Co-Founder Pam Washek Loses Battle with Cancer.A wife and mother and volunteering icon has died after a 10-year battle with cancer.
Pam Washek, the co-founder of the Wayland Angel Food Network (now the Neighbor Brigade), passed away Dec. 2, according to an obituary published on Boston.com. Washek and fellow Wayland resident Jean Seiden came together in the midst of their individual cancer treatments to found, in 2003, the Wayland Angel Food Network, a group dedicated to organizing neighbors to provide meals for one another in times of need and crisis.