Thousands remember Carol Baldwins life and her crusade against breast cancer [Video]

Bruce Wademan’s mom died of breast cancer years ago.

To honor her, the family asked for donations to the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund of CNY.

To Wademan’s surprise, Carol and her daughter, Beth, showed up at his mom’s wake.

“We didn’t expect that,” he said Friday, one day after Carol Baldwin died.

“They were very gracious,’’ said Wademan, who lives in Camillus, the same town that Baldwin called home. “I was sad to hear the news as she was a very nice lady.”

Carol Baldwin died Thursday at 92, with Daniel and two sisters, Jane and Beth, at her Syracuse hospital bedside. She had FaceTimed with her other sons, Alec, Billy and Stephen, and her grandchildren.

She’d been admitted with a urinary tract infection and then was diagnosed with pneumonia, according to Daniel Baldwin, who spoke at length Friday with syracuse.com| The Post-Standard about the matriarch of their family. The doctors told Baldwin and …