BRIAN D. SANDERFORD • TIMES RECORD / Kim Howell a nurse at Mercy Fort Smith -adds organic materials to a floragraph that features Elijah Cole McGinley during a "Finishing Event" at the hospital on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. More than 80 floragraphs will be part of Donate Life's float entry in the 2014 Rose Parade. The floragraphs are portraits of deceased organ, eye, and tissue donors.
Four nurses from Mercy Fort Smith will travel to this year’s Rose Parade to assist in honoring the life of a central Arkansas boy whose donation of a heart valve helped save an infant girl.
In 2009, Elijah Cole McGinley was born with severe birth defects and taken off life support after surviving for just five days. His parents, Jodie and Jesse McGinley of East End, decided that if Elijah could make an organ donation to another child in need and possibly avoid having another family go through a similar situation, it would be worth it.
About a year ago, a 2-day-old infant girl from Maine received a heart valve transplant from Elijah. The McGinleys found out about it last week.
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