CINCINNATI —

Seventeen-year-old Peyton Sherrell survived cancer and a heart transplant.

She spoke on her struggles with health, sharing her story online for people all over the world to follow. Advertisement

On Aug. 26, Peyton died after suffering a cardiac arrest.

"She was always just such a happy child. Like you never would have thought that anything was wrong with her. You never would have thought that she was sick because she was just always up playing and laughing," said Peyton's aunt, Jordan Sterling.

When Peyton was an infant, a parvovirus infection led to a serious heart condition, and at just 18 months old, she underwent a heart transplant.

Her family says that at the age of 3, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

She fought hard, and at 6 years old, she was cancer

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