Family finds comfort in knowing daughter’s death saved 3 lives

News Observer
SMITHFIELD -- There are a lot of things Tonya Weaver’s family doesn’t know about her death.

They don’t know exactly how the 24-year-old mother of two fell from a moving truck on the night of June 22 in Four Oaks.

And, they don’t know how they are going to pay to have her remains cremated.

The one thing they do know, however, brings them comfort. Three people got a new shot at life as a result of her untimely death.

As an organ donor, Weaver’s heart, liver, and kidneys went to separate recipients, three of 114,000 people nationwide waiting and hoping for their second chance, according to Carolina Donor Services in Durham.

“She saved lives and that means a lot to me,” said her father, Ricky Weaver. “It makes me feel a lot better.”

Weaver, mother of a 2-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter, was riding with her fiancé Charles Pitman Jr. last weekend in her father’s truck. While traveling west on Spring Lake Road, Weaver exited the white 1993 Ford pickup through the passenger door.

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