Just before he collapsed and died of an enlarged heart, Steve Zendek was doing what he loved -- throwing a baseball on the field of PNC Park at FanFest.
Even in death four years ago at 38, Zendek helped others. He donated body tissue, bone, cornea and tendons to those who needed them.
"That was his wish," his widow, Lynda Zendek, 40, of New Kensington, said on Sunday. "I'm an organ donor. I had no hesitation."
Zendek joined about 1,000 family members and friends of organ donors and recipients for a ceremony yesterday at the Center for Organ Recovery & Education's Pittsburgh headquarters in O'Hara. The event rededicated A Special Place, a granite wall with about 13,000 leaves, one for each organ donor in the region since 1993.
As a bagpiper in a kilt played "Amazing Grace," doves fluttered away, and pink, blue, green and yellow balloons drifted in a clear-blue sky. Brianna Anderson, 16, of Flemington, W.Va., hugged her mother, Karen.
They were there to honor their brother and son, Aaron Anderson. He died May 9, 2011, when a car hit him near his house. He was 9.
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