Swansea Public Schools honor 7-year-old boy who passed away unexpectedly

A local school district honored and remembered Friday a young boy whose life was tragically cut short.

7-year-old Mason Stringer of Swansea, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, at Hasbro Children’s Hospital due to complications from undetected acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Swansea Public Schools honored Stringer by having students and faculty wear his favorite color yellow ahead of his birthday on Sunday when he would have turned 8.

The district was a field of yellow in honor of the joy, laughter, and love he shared with the school community and to support each other during this difficult time.

According to an obituary, Stringer was a second-grade student at Gardner Elementary School.

“Mason was an energetic and enthusiastic child who delighted in staying active. He enjoyed playing baseball, soccer, and basketball, as well as weekly swim lessons. His vivid imagination was evident in building with Legos and Magna-Tiles, playing with dinosaurs and Hot Wheels, creating worlds in Minecraft with his brother, drawing pictures, and writing stories. He especially loved his “stuffies”, board games, the beach, dogs, trampoline parks, arcade claw machines, dancing and music, watching Big City Greens and movies, cheeseburgers, outings to Chili’s and the Ice Cream Barn, picking dandelions for his mother, playing outside with his brother and friends, exploring insects and birds, and enjoying bedtime tickles and stories. Mason treasured vacations in Onset with his cousins, trips to Lake George, North Conway, Atlantic City, and Sesame Place with his family, and most memorably, his first visit to Disney World last year.”

Stringer’s visitation will be held on Saturday, February 7, 2026, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Waring-Sullivan Home at Birchcrest, 189 Gardners Neck Road, Swansea. All are welcome to attend and gather to celebrate his life. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to The Tomorrow Fund.