Donor's Family Continues to Support Gift of Life

The York Dispatch
When Missy Sweitzer and her daughter found a set of lost keys at a softball game recently, they placed them on the owner's car with a note.

Then they saw a "Donate Life" sticker on the vehicle.

"We wrote another note that we noticed the sticker and we had a story and would love to hear hers, and left our name and number," said Sweitzer.

The story Sweitzer had to share was about her son Zachary, who was killed in a motor vehicle accident in 2008 by an under-the-influence driver.

But it does not end there.

Zachary, a 2007 Dallastown High School graduate, registered as an organ donor when he got his driver's license.

"So when the possibility of making organ donations came up it was a no-brainer, we were just honoring Zach's wishes," Sweitzer said.

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