Former Jazz Bear battles cancer, remembers young patients who always smiled

Former Jazz Bear battles cancer, remembers young patients who always smiled

Jon Absey on Jan. 6, 1997, as the Jazz Bear, a position he held for 24 years. Absey has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but is strengthened by young patients with cancer and other terminal diseases who continue to smile. | Kristen Jacobsen, Deseret News SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (KSL.com) — He was there when Michael Jordan scored his last basket as a Chicago Bull in Game 6 of the NBA Finals at the Delta Center in 1998. He saw Karl Malone play hi…