The Alabama Organ Center (AOC) will hold a non-denominational “Service of Remembrance” honoring those who have given the Gift of Life through organ donation during the past year. About 50 people are expected to attend. A donor’s mother will be the primary speaker and a transplant recipient will respond. In addition, other recipients of organs will briefly share tributes with their donors.
January 16, 2003
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The Alabama Organ Center (AOC) will hold a non-denominational "Service of Remembrance" honoring those who have given the Gift of Life through organ donation during the past year. About 50 people are expected to attend. A donor's mother will be the primary speaker and a transplant recipient will respond. In addition, other recipients of organs will briefly share tributes with their donors.
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WHEN:
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Sunday, January 19, 2003
3 to 5 p.m.
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WHERE:
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Yielding Chapel
Birmingham-Southern College
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WHO:
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Jane Geloneck, AOC Family Liaison
Chuck Patrick, AOC Director
Linda Fikes, donor mother of Barbara Fikes, 16, of Cottondale
JoAnne McGuire-Baxley of Crane Hill, 1998 liver transplant recipient
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FEATURES:
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- Linda Fikes will meet at least one of the people who received organs from her daughter, who died in a car wreck October 29, 2000. Singing as Linda Plowman when she was a teenager, Fikes was a country music favorite in the early 1970s, a protégé of Conway Twitty. She performed at the Grand Old Opry and sang with Twitty and with others. Her rendition of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" was a hit in 1971, but she retired soon thereafter to raise a family. She will share a song at the service.
- Donor families will bring quilt squares for the National Donor Family Quilt and the Alabama Donor Family Quilt.
- Donor families will bring photos and other remembrances.
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MORE:
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For information on organ donation, go to the AOC Web site at http://alabamaorgancenter.org/
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