Tradesman’s gift humbles cancer dad

A selfless stranger has given a special gift to a Baldivis family dealing with cancer.

Disaster struck last June when father-of-three Larry Barth, who had recently moved to the family’s new house in the suburb, discovered he had T-cell-rich-Bcell-lymphoma.

Mr Barth was unable to work after he went through gruelling chemotherapy sessions, but worried landscaping and backyard work would not been completed before the birth of the couple’s third child, born last week.

Gailynn Barth said her husband, a boiler-maker, had been a workaholic and, despite working long shifts at a company in Henderson, worked on the house well into the night, before he got sick.

“It was difficult for Larry when he got sick because he has always been of the mentality that he must provide for his family,” she said.

“But the cancer had spread to his chest, abdomen and head and he had begun to lose his vision.”

But, when the family contacted contractors to ask for quotes to install a pool fence, one tradesman went the extra mile to help.

Mrs Barth said the family were humbled when a local tradesman offered to complete the work, worth more than $2500, for free.

She said the stranger told Mr Barth to use the money to complete the paving work so their children Leondre, 5, and Liarra-Lynn, 1, could play outside.