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Colton James Berckenhoff

Organ Donor

Age: 11
Location: Houston, TX
Date of Donation: 06/26/2012
Hospital: Texas Children's Hospital
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Cassidy Rena Biggs

Organ Donor

Age: 5
Location: Ft. Worth, TX
Date of Donation: 03/05/2012
Hospital: Cook Children's Hospital

We are Blessed, I do not really know were to begin were our little girl is concerned.  When my wife and I first saw Cassidy we fell in love. Cassidy’s first smile to us made us only made it more so, Cassidy was blessed with an abundance of love, it flowed out through her smile and infected our hearts. We knew that she was a blessing from our Heavenly Father, we just did not realize…

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Mark Steven Bishop

Organ Donor

Age: 50
Location: Cedar Park, TX
Date of Donation: 02/02/2007
Hospital: Brackenridge Hospital

Mark Bishop was a good man. He was a very intelligent, thoughtful man. We were married 13 years and knew each other 15 years. We grew a lot together, experiencing and discussing many issues. Somehow, the topic of organ donation after death never came up. Mark loved to help people. He was a creative electrical engineer and respected coworker. He was very involved in church, he wanted to make connections with others, and never missed…

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Michael Alexander Blagojevic

Organ Donor

Age: 25
Location: Ontario, Canada

Michael was born May 8, 1974 and passed away on June 20th, 2000 at the young age of 26! Michael’s precious daughter Gabrielle, was 6 years old and her Daddy’s accident was on Father’s Day 🙁 Michael was such a lover of life and believed so strongly in Organ Donation, that he gave the gift of life to 3 people and enhanced the lives of 29 others, 32 in total! He loved all sports, he…

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Sammy Blair

Organ Donor, Tissue Donor, Eye Donor

Age: 21
Location: Houston, TX
Date of Donation: 12/14/2018
Hospital: Life Gift

Sammy was born in The Woodlands, TX on August 13, 1997 to Wayne and Dianne Blair. Those who knew Sammy, even just a little, lost a shining light in their lives. His faith was at the center of his life and shown through in everything he did and said, even when — perhaps especially when — he was just goofing around with his family and friends. From an early age, athletics was a very big…

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Nicholas Bogie

Organ Donor

Age: 25
Location: Groton, VT
Date of Donation: 03/31/2011
Hospital: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

I remember just like it was yesterday, the moment when the doctors told me that my best friend, the love of my life, the father of my children was gone. I relive that moment every day and how I felt and how I reacted and what came after. The next thing that happened has changed my life in so many ways, for the better, and for that I am forever grateful. I was asked if…

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Brad Wesley Bowers

Organ Donor

Age: 26
Location: Houston, TX
Date of Donation: 05/21/2010
Hospital: Ben Taub Hospital

We remember: We remember when we brought Brad home from the hospital and how he turned out to be such a good baby, never crying and always by our side “what a lap baby he was”. We remember how Brad always wanted to go with us everywhere and Oh! how he enjoyed being with his mom and dad. We remember when he choked on a hot dog and it scared us half to death! We…

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Kate Alison Bronstein

Organ Donor

Age: 19
Location: Houston, TX
Date of Donation: 11/15/2007
Hospital: St Luke's Hospital

Kate Alison Bronstein was a 19 year old sophomore at Baylor University when she died on November 14, 2007. She double majored in art history and international studies and was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority, where she served as the special events coordinator.  Kate had a loving heart and cared deeply for her family and friends. She was a strong-willed and focused individual who knew what she wanted in life and pursued it…

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Sarah Elizabeth Brown

Organ Donor

Age: 16
Location: Pensacola, FL
Hospital: Sacred Heart Hospital

2/3/91 – 2/17/07 My precious daughter, Sarah, rode in a car with a distracted, careless driver. That became her exit from this life. She had just turned 16 and was so excited to be on her way to adulthood. She had decided on Flagler College in St. Augustine and was considering a career in research psychology. Sarah dreamed of the excitement and opportunities that come with living in a big city one day. We all…

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Dean Brown

Organ Donor

Age: 21
Date of Donation: 05/27/2008

Sometime after Dean died, I found a folder on his computer entitled: KEEP IT SIMPLE AND NEVER QUIT! The folder contained 3 Word doc files created one year and one month before he succumbed to a drug overdose. After reading the Word docs I realized Dean was a very organized and well thought out individual in spite of the conflicted life he led. The one Word doc was a simple list of bullet points he…

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