A well known charity supporter and performer who died last year has been honoured with a posthumous award to recognise her life-saving decision to donate her organs.
Jane Rutherford, a trustee at St Nicholas Hospice Care, in Bury St Edmunds, who passed away aged 63, was among 20 recipients of the new accolade created by the Order of St John with NHS Blood and Transplant.
It was presented to the families and loved ones of those who saved and improved people’s lives through organ donation with 10 handed out at a ceremony in Bury by the High Sherriff of Suffolk, Sir Edward Greenwell.
Ms Rutherford, who suffered a brain haemorrhage last October and died at West Suffolk Hospital, was on the organ donor register with her liver going to a patient with just 72 hours to live while her kidneys went to two other people.
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