- April 29, 2024
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Jonathan Peter, a Palm Coast resident, will be one of 81 organ donors in the country honored next month by Donate Life, a national program that advocates for organ donation, during the 2014 Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif.
Peter died January, and his wife, Lyn, fulfilled his wish to become an organ donor. One of his corneas was transplanted into a 53-year-old male recipient.
Peter was selected to be honored with a floragraph portrait as a part of the Donate Life Rose Parade Float in January 2014.
Because the Rose Parade is a festival of flower-covered floats on New Year's Day, Donate Life creates floragraph portraits for each donor, which are detailed replicas of a donor’s face, made entirely out of flowers.
Each year, the Donate Life float campaign is supported by more than 140 official sponsors from coast to coast, including organ, eye and tissue recovery organizations, tissue processors, hospitals, transplant centers, state donor registries, funeral homes, donor family foundations and affiliated organizations.
Peter’s floragraph is sponsored by the Medical Eye Bank of Florida.
“Everything he did, he did with his whole heart,” Lyn Peter said. “It was the biggest! He was so real and honest, so patient and kind. ... He was generous with his family and friends and was a caring and loving son. He was the best, most wonderful husband and my best friend. ... To his recipient, may I urge they live each day to the fullest and try always to be kind.”
FPC grad deploys to Afghanistan
Airman E3 Tristen JT Healy, a 2012 graduate of Flagler Palm Coast High School, deployed to Afghanistan Dec.14, with the U.S. Air Force. He is the son of Jason and Deanna Healy, of Palm Coast, and the grandson of Walter and Evelyn Duffy, of Palm Coast.
Host family needed for exchange student
A host family in needed for a 15-year-old, female, Spanish student who attends Matanzas’s High School.
Host families provide a bed, meals and a supporting environment. All students speak English and come with their own spending money and medical insurance.
This student likes basketball, sports and is a model student.
Contact Susan James PAX Program of Academic Exchange, at 904-806-1392, or email [email protected].
