By Bonnie Culverhouse

Six months ago yesterday (Wednesday), William Kyle Campbell breathed his last breath and at almost the same time, breathed new life into someone else by donating his organs.

On April 10, a flag-raising ceremony was held at Minden Medical Center to honor organ donors and recipients during Donate Life Month for the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency.

With a portrait of her husband leaned against the flagpole, Elizabeth Campbell told an assembled group of medical staff, a LOPA representative and others about her husband’s life as well as his final days. For a month, the Donate Life flag will fly just beneath the American Flag outside the hospital.

For information about donating organs, visit www.lopa.org .