{"id":615,"date":"2009-03-09T07:20:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T07:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/michael-sweets-wife-kyle-succu.html"},"modified":"2009-03-09T07:20:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T07:20:56","slug":"michael-sweets-wife-kyle-succu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/michael-sweets-wife-kyle-succu.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sweet&#8217;s Wife, Kyle, Succumbs To Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MichaelSweetandfamily.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/MichaelSweetandfamily.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>Kyle Rae Sweet, wife of Michael <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/08\/former-styper-frontman-michael.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet, co-founder of Stryper and current guitarist\/vocalist for Boston<\/a>, succumbed last week to cancer.<br \/>\nKyle was diagnosed with cancer in February 2007. A press release said she passed away at 8:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 5, 2009.<br \/>\nAccording to the release, &#8220;Kyle&#8217;s life was dedicated to caring for her husband and home-schooling their two children. Her heart&#8217;s desire was for their children to attend college. To best honor Kyle&#8217;s work as a home-school mom there has been a fund set up called The Sweet Children&#8217;s College Fund.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn lieu of flowers, donations to this fund can be made payable and mailed to:<br \/>\nSweet Children&#8217;s College Fund<br \/>\nSovereign Bank<br \/>\n50 Cohasset Avenue<br \/>\nBuzzards Bay, MA 02532<br \/>\nThe family will hold a private funeral service for Kyle Sweet.<br \/>\n<em>Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck <\/a>headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. 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