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August donation anniversaries are here! Add yours at https://livingdonorsonline.org/donor-experiences/donation-anniversaries/. Best wishes to all that your memories are sweet. All for whom they are bittersweet, or sad, or complicated, please know we hope to be in the best position to understand and sympathize. Take good care. Fifty-eighth anniversary:Theodore Charles Lombard donated a kidney to his daughter on August 30th, 1967Forty-fifth anniversary:Julie Edmonds donated a kidney to her sister, Susan Martin, on August 21st, 1980Thirty-third anniversary:Patrick M. Emmett donated a kidney to his ex-wife on August 28th, 1992Thirty-first anniversary:Donna Luebke donated a kidney to her sister on August 26th, 1994Twenty-seventh anniversary:Michael McGhee donated a kidney to his son, Michael, on August 25th, 1998Twenty-sixth anniversary:Lisa Weisenberger donated a kidney to her brother, Chad, on August 5th, 1999Twenty-fifth anniversary:Rita Kocian (deceased 2/12/04) donated a kidney to her mother in August, 2000Ellen donated part of her liver to her cousin on August 8th, 2000Laurie donated part of her liver to her cousin on August 8th, 2000Walter E Kitter donated a kidney to his friend, Roger Kohlhoff, on August 21st, 2000Myron Thirtle donated a kidney to his father on August 31st, 2000. His father survived 10 years until succumbing to cancer in 2010Twenty-fourth anniversary:Katherine Coe donated a kidney to a friend on August 8th, 2001Twenty-third anniversary:Kristin Barnes donated part of her liver to her father on August 29th, 2002Twenty-second anniversary:Chuck Swartout donated part of his liver to his stepsister on August 5th, 2003Julie donated a kidney to her brother on August 20th, 2003Bruce Dobben donated a kidney to a friend on August 27th, 2003Kevin Rodgers donated a kidney to a friend on August 29th, 2003Twenty-first anniversary:Carolyn Ambrose donated a kidney to her husband on August 4th, 2004Ana Mora donated a kidney to her cousin on August 7th, 2004Jennifer Leigh McGuinn donated a kidney to her father on August 10th, 2004Michele Moeller donated a kidney and bone marrow to an unrelated person she found on LDO! on August 10th, 2004Alfonso Gaspar became a bone marrow donor to a young child on August 12th, 2004Jayne Kavanagh donated bone marrow to an internationally matched recipient on August 12th, 2004Amber D. Murray donated a kidney to her brother on August 17th, 2004Twentieth anniversary:Amber Allen donated a kidney to her cousin on August 9th, 2005Amber Billings donated a kidney to her cousin on August 10th, 2005Janet Saulter-Hemmer donated a kidney to her friend, Jim Morgenland, on August 18th, 2005Nineteenth anniversary:Jennifer donated a kidney to her father on August 1st, 2006Ruth Spang donated a kidney to her father, James, on August 3rd, 2006Lana J. James donated a kidney to her cousin on August 30th, 2006Eighteenth anniversary:Tammy Pigion donated part of her liver to her son on August 2nd, 2007Melanie Hubbard donated a kidney to her friend, Dale Nix, on August 10th, 2007Amy Covert donated a kidney to a friend on August 15th, 2007Marsha Moran donated a kidney to her spouse, James, on August 15th, 2007Matthew Lynette donated a kidney to his brother, Andrew, on August 15th, 2007Katherine Howe donated part of her liver to her husband, David, on August 20th, 2007Seventeenth anniversary:Melissa Swanson donated a kidney to a stranger met on LDO on August 5th, 2008Marybeth Marshall donated a kidney to her brother on August 12th, 2008John Tran donated part of his liver to his wife, Christine, on August 14th, 2008Lonnie Howell donated a kidney to a stranger who had become a close friend by the time of donation on August 19th, 2008Kayla Asher donated a kidney to her cousin, Julie Mitchell, on August 20th, 2008Dominion Giventer gave part of his liver to his 1 year old nephew on August 29th, 2008Sixteenth anniversary:Marian Mamayek donated a kidney to her friend, Sharlene Bender, on August 6th, 2009Tania Eggleston donated a kidney to her Dad on August 11th, 2009Carleen Dickerson donated a kidney to her cousin on August 12th, 2009Patricia Roussin donated a kidney to Anthony Lopez, an unrelated person, on August 12th, 2009Rabbi Ephraim Simon donated a kidney to a stranger on August 13th, 2009Lessa Ennis donated a kidney to an unrelated person, Lee Kingery, on August 25th, 2009Patti Bartlett donated a kidney to her brother, Mark Manwar, on August 26th, 2009Fifteenth anniversary:Samantha Perouty donated her left kidney to her uncle on August 2nd, 2010Stacie Brane donated a kidney to her sister, Kristie Goade, on August 12th, 2010Fourteenth anniversary:Avis Lynch donated a kidney to her mother, Winnetta F. Guthrie, on August 10th, 2011John made a non-directed kidney donation on August 11th, 2011Rick made a non-directed kidney donation that started an open chain with 17 donor-recipient pairs so far on August 15th, 2011David Lieu donated a kidney to his twin brother, Michael, on August 23rd, 2011Jodi Dykstra donated a kidney to her father on August 23rd, 2011Melinda Stern donated a kidney to her sister, Kristine Brenneman on August 31st, 2011Thirteenth anniversary:Cathy May donated a kidney to her friend, Amy Gray Light, on August 16th, 2012Jennifer Ross made a non-directed kidney donation on August 16th, 2012Jeannette Myers-Whitney donated a kidney to a stranger on August 23rd, 2012, as a paired donation to benefit her husband, RodKim Merrell made an anonymous, non-directed kidney donation on August 30th, 2012Twelfth anniversary:Margaret Koppelman donated a kidney on August 7th, 2013Linda donated a kidney to Priscilla's mom, Karen, on August 16th, 2013Eleventh anniversary:Joshua Davies donated a kidney anonymously on August 8th, 2014Corey Zaretsky donated a kidney to his brother, Matthew, on August 14th, 2014Tenth anniversary:Elle Gillum donated part of her liver to her dad, Dean Toney, on August 12th, 2015Ninth anniversary:Diana Castillo donated a kidney to her friend, German Alech, on August 31st, 2016Seventh anniversary:Danielle DiMartino donated a kidney to a stranger on August 2nd, 2018Kelly Thoele donated a kidney to Minh Le, the fiancé of a former employee on August 23rd, 2018Fifth anniversary:Annette donated a kidney to Hailey, her future daughter-in-law, on August 22, 2020Second anniversary:Karen Jones made a non-directed kidney donation on August 16th, 2023First anniversary:Stephanie Lomuscio made a non-directed anonymous liver donation to German Cortez on August 8th, 2024
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