a 15-month-old shropshire boy died less than two hours after contracting menigitis,his grieving father said RUSSEL EVANS AND SAMANTHA BLOOR or trying to raise awareness of the disease after son max died just before christmas mr evans and partner sam bloor had stayed up most of the night before the death of there son because he had been ill a few times around 7am he was rested calm and had gone to sleep we got up less than two hours later and my partner samantha and i found him dead in his cot MAX PASSED AWAY ON THE 14TH DEC 2009 A COLLECTION AT MAX'S FUNERAL ON DEC 23RD RAISED MORE THAN A £1,000 WHICH WAS DONATED TO MENINGITIS TRUST AND TO THE HANDSTAND APPEAL WITCH SUPPORTS MARSHALL JANSON WHO HAD THE SAME ILLNESS WE HOPE TO HOLD MORE EVENTS TO RAISE FUNDS BUT MORE IMPORTENT RAISE AWARENESS TO A LITTLE MAN ALWAYS SMILING AND ALWAYS LAUGHING