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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Coach Jay Continues to Touch Lives

Kennesaw Patch | Gaetana Pipia

The Kennesaw Charter teacher who died Friday after being struck by a vehicle has helped others through organ donation.

In life, Jay Ingram touched many lives in the Kennesaw community as a youth soccer coach, a physical education teacher at Kennesaw Charter Science and Math Academy, and a loving husband and father of two.

In death, he continues to help others through the gift of organ donation.

Ingram, 32, was struck by a vehicle Thursday morning while jogging on North Booth Road in Kennesaw. He died Friday at 3:30 p.m. due to complications from a severe traumatic brain injury.

Ingram donated all his organs, according to an update posted on Facebook Saturday morning by Ingram's wife, Corinne:

His heart is going to a fifty year old, his lungs to a 27 year old, a kidney and liver to a patient with liver failure, a kidney and pancreas to a patient with diabetes/kidney failure. I pray that everything goes well for these recipients and amazed that even in death Jay is saving lives. God you are amazing.
Read more: http://kennesaw.patch.com/articles/coach-jay-continues-to-touch-lives

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