A baby boy named Noah — the grandchild she was never able to meet — is just one of Teresa Cassavoy’s 14 loved ones who will honor her Wednesday from the grandstand of the 2014 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif.
Cassavoy, a 39-year-old Grand Blanc mom of two when she died in March, is the 8th Michigander to be honored for organ donation in the Donate Life Rose Parade float. This year’s theme: Light Up the World.
This year’s 55-feet-long float carries on it 81 memorial floragraphs — portraits made of flowers and seeds and other natural elements — of deceased donors.
Five large lanterns will illuminate 30 organ and tissue transplant recipients. A dozen living organ donors and recipients will walk alongside to demonstrate what Donate Life calls “their ongoing vitality,” including Sue Herrick Pilon of Wyandotte, a breast cancer survivor who received transplanted tissue.
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