TikToker Anna Grace Phelan Dies at 19, Less Than a Year After Brain Cancer Diagnosis

TikToker Anna Grace Phelan has died, little than 1 year after being diagnosed pinch encephalon cancer. She was 19 years old.

Phelan's family announced her decease successful a station shared connected her relationship connected Saturday, May 24. According to her obituary, she died connected Friday, May 23.

"It is pinch awesome sadness to denote that our beautiful daughter, Anna Grace Phelan, went location to beryllium pinch her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," nan family wrote successful their post. "So galore of you person followed her travel done a difficult conflict pinch crab and bore witnesser to her powerful grounds of faith."

"Thank you for nan countless thousands of prayers for treatment and peace," they continued. "May we each rejoice pinch nan assurance that she is successful Heaven now, and she has been healed. Let america besides retrieve that nan only way to nan promised kingdom of Heaven is done salvation successful Jesus Christ."

Per nan obituary, nan Georgia-based influencer is survived by her parents, William "Buddy" Phelan and Nadine Phelan, her brother Harper Phelan, her 4 grandparents, and "a big of aunts, uncles and cousins, who emotion her very much."

Since graduating from precocious schoolhouse successful Jefferson, Ga., Phelan had worked arsenic a receptionist astatine a aesculapian practice, and was very progressive pinch her section Christian church.

Phelan, primitively from Florida, documented her crab travel connected societal media since she began experiencing symptoms past summertime — conscionable days earlier she was group to statesman college.

According to a GoFundMe page group up successful her name, Phelan was yet diagnosed pinch a people 4 malignant encephalon tumor that was categorized arsenic a glioma — a maturation of cells that starts successful nan encephalon aliases spinal cord, according to nan Mayo Clinic.

In a TikTok, Phelan shared that her first symptoms included numbness connected 1 broadside of her look and successful 1 of her legs. She received an MRI scan, which showed a lesion connected her brain, and yet had a encephalon biopsy, which showed her cancer.

"This is decidedly nan hardest news I've ever received," she said successful another TikTok video announcing her crab test successful September 2024. "By each means, this is not easy. Just going to spot successful nan Lord and effort and support pushing forward."

In later videos, Phelan gave her followers penetration into her radiation therapy and opened up astir her worsening symptoms, which included breathing problems and dizziness.

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Several of nan influencer's past videos showed her spending clip pinch friends and family. On May 15, she shared video footage of her friends gathering for a mini statement successful her backyard.

Just 1 time prior, she said candidly astir really her encephalon tumor had grown and was inoperable, and thanked her astir 140,000 TikTok followers for their support.

"Keep maine successful your prayers," Phelan said successful nan May 14 TikTok. "Thank you each truthful much."

The influencer's family is group to grant her pinch a ceremonial successful Georgia connected May 29.