Decorating the floragraph for Joshua San Pedro are his grandmother Grace Pugh and his father Carlos San Pedro. The floragraph is for the Donate Life Rose Parade float.
Three local San Fernando Valley families are among 81 chosen to honor their departed loved ones with floragraphs on the Donate Life float in the Rose Parade on New Year’s Day.
For 11 years, the float’s flowered portraits of deceased organ and tissue donors have served as a memorial, as well as a platform for living donors, transplant recipients and their families to inspire others.
This year, the families of 3-month-old Andrew Endo, 14-year-old Lindsey Woodward and 22-year-old Carlos Escobedo are proud to be some of those paying tribute.
“My biggest fear when Andy died was that he’d be forgotten,” said Pam Endo, Andrew’s mother.
Just three months after he was born on April 29, 1981, Andy suddenly stopped breathing while he was at day care. “He died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome,” said Andy’s father, Bruce Endo. “Back then, no one really talked about donation. When the doctors came to ask us about it, we had just found out, so Pam was kind of, well, hysterical. I was being stoic, but I was hurting. But we knew if we could spare anyone else the grief we were just going through, then it was the right thing to do.”
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To register as a donor in California:
www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org | www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org
Outside California:
www.organdonor.gov | www.donatelife.
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