Dedicated to Dale Todd Hall who died January 1, 1999 at 10:10 A.M. while in the critical care unit of the University of Missouri Hospital. Infections, resulting from inmune suppress conditions, claimed his life. He was a supporter of the transplant program and had two good years of quality life. God has his soul.

The transplanted heart diagram above is a copy of a sweatshirt logo used by the Transplant Support Group, a growing volunteer organization of seventy some men and women, young and old, who have had life saving heart transplant surgery at the University Hospital & Clinics, Columbia, MO.

Dale T. Hall was transplant patient number 62 and the transplant took place on October 12, 1996, almost 29 years after the first heart was transplanted by Dr. Christian Bernard in South Africa. Dale waited 7 weeks in the hospital for an available heart.

The entire transplant program, that involves other vital organs, is wholly dependent upon the individual donor or donor families who make organs available to the surgeons and hospital systems all over the nation. Individuals are waiting for organs so they can once again have quality of life. Look on the rear of your drivers license to see if you have a donor form.

E-mail us if you have questions regarding how to arrange for donations at your death, or the death of a loved one.

Links to good heart information from he Rush Heart Institute.

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