Saundra Rollins’ husband, the late Dr. Darrel Rollins Sr. who was the pastor of 31st Street Baptist Church for 25 years, received a life-saving liver transplant in November 1994 after being placed on a waiting list earlier that year. Dr. Rollins died in 2007.
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“Don’t take your organs to heaven — heaven knows we need them here.” This phrase, commonly used by organ donation advocates, stuck with Donnetta Quarles-Reese when she first saw it on bumper stickers and license plates in her youth. It would stay with her in the decades that followed, when she agreed to donate the organs of her daughter Clarke Danielle and her husband Charles Michael after their deaths in 2007 and 2017, respectively.
