On Friday afternoon, 12-year-old Josh Demers held up his newly-shorn blond curls and announced, “I can feel the wind already.”

Demers, of West Bath, then addressed an envelope to mail the curls to Locks of Love, a program that provides wigs to children with cancer.

He included a card “In memory of Angela M. Black.”

Angela Black, of Bath, a longtime friend of Demers’ father, Mike, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and wasn’t expected to live long. But she held on five more years, until last fall.

She wore wigs throughout several rounds of chemotherapy.

On Friday, Black’s son, Matt Holcombe; his girlfriend, Kayleigh Fortin; their infant, Emma; and several of Angela Black’s friends crowded into Textured Hair Designs to watch Demers get a haircut.

“She’d be crying right now,” Black’s best friend, Angela Avery, said. “She’d be all over that boy saying how proud she was. Then she’d take him out and spoil him.”

Josh Demers only met Angela Black a few times, but his father had known her since they were 13. They attended Morse High School.

When he heard his dad talking about her one day, he started asking questions.

“His big concern was that she was a girl and wasn’t going to have her hair,” Mike Demers said. “He wanted to know how to make a wig. Then he said, ‘I’ll do that.’” FOR MORE, see the Bangor Daily News at bangordailynews.com.