Donor Search Success Stories

During his 46 years as a high school basketball coach, Cliff Hawkins preached the importance of teamwork and working together to find success. Hawkins has touched countless lives with those lessons. And when he needed it most, one of those people came back around with a selfless sacrifice for him.

Otway Mayfield and Tywa Hughes reconnect after 30 years for a life-saving kidney transplant, while also overcoming cancer battles.

In a last-ditch effort to find a living kidney donor, Wayne Newell put up a billboard off of Interstate 77 last October. Beth Perryman from Mooresville saw that billboard, and she answered his call.

Thomas Ortiz spent years waiting on a kidney. Turns out, he was living with a matched donor – his wife Nikky.

One Colorado couple, Ashley and Jimmy Cleverly, share their recent journey navigating chronic kidney disease and how a living donor transplant has changed their lives.

Donnie Huddleston, a co-owner of PRP’s Ice Cream Corner for more than a decade, was devastated when his kidney failure forced him into early retirement. But his prayers were answered when family connections led to a selfless donor, Serene Conaway.

The day Kathleen Beightol found out her husband had a donor match for a kidney transplant, she was overwhelmed with emotion.

Voorhees University Head Men’s Basketball Coach James Williams knew he needed to take his health more seriously when he passed out during a team practice last year.

Megan Barrowclough donated a kidney to her childhood best friend Regina Bence at Mayo Clinic.

Almost 23 years after Jesus Amando Garcia’s first kidney transplant, Alexandro Munoz, his son in-law, stepped up to provide Garcia’s second transplant, honoring the memory of his own father, who died in 2019 from kidney failure.