{"id":36456,"date":"2026-05-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=36456"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:04:28","slug":"morgan-wallen-quietly-paid-funeral-costs-for-young-cancer-patient-he-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/morgan-wallen-quietly-paid-funeral-costs-for-young-cancer-patient-he-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen Quietly Paid Funeral Costs For Young Cancer Patient He Met"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Morgan Wallen<\/strong>\u00a0secretly covered funeral expenses for eight-year-old Jameson, <a href=\"https:\/\/countrynow.com\/morgan-wallen-quietly-covers-funeral-expenses-for-8-year-old-fan-he-met-backstage-before-tragic-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a fan who lost his battle with multiple cancers in August 2025. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Michigan boy had been diagnosed with midline high-grade glioma, high-grade glioma in his brain and spine, plus Osteosarcoma in his arm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through Make-A-Wish, Jameson met Wallen backstage at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin last summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His mother, Amanda, said Wallen &#8220;was so nice and genuine&#8221; and &#8220;prayed over Jameson&#8221; before the concert. Wallen wore a &#8220;JAMESONSTRONG&#8221; bracelet during his performance that Jameson had given him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amanda revealed Wallen&#8217;s generous gesture in a letter to her late son, writing, &#8220;The fact that he quietly paid for your funeral there just are no words to how amazing that is.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family continues honouring Jameson through their nonprofit organization, providing support to pediatric cancer families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen\u00a0secretly covered funeral expenses for eight-year-old Jameson, a fan who lost his battle with multiple cancers in August 2025. The Michigan boy had been diagnosed with midline high-grade glioma, high-grade glioma in his brain and spine, plus Osteosarcoma in his arm. Through Make-A-Wish, Jameson met Wallen backstage at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":36457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[1442,1843,10791,1188,3845,10792],"class_list":["post-36456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cancer","tag-jameson","tag-make-a-wish","tag-michigan","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-patient"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-24 10:15:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/morgan-wallen-quietly-paid-funeral-costs-for-young-cancer-patient-he-met\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36503,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36456\/revisions\/36503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}