Photo: Seated below a quilt depicting organ donors, Newark resident Gwendolyn Anderson, right, applauds with Jackie Lue-Raia of Mahwah, who's mother Ena Lue died in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike in January 2010. Tony Kurdzuk
When Ena Lue died after a collision with a tractor trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike three years ago, her family decided to make her a gift to the world.
It started almost immediately with Gwendolyn Anderson, who now carries one of Ena’s kidneys inside her.
The other kidney went to a lady in a Jersey Shore community. And all told, her tissue has benefited 43 people for numerous procedures ranging from post mastectomy reconstruction and cleft palates to hernia repairs, rotator cuffs and bladder slings.
"She’s everywhere,’’ her daughter, Jackie Lue Raia, said.
Ena’s family reasoned it out and acted fast.
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