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Pioneering kidney donor, 88

DALLAS — Juanita Smallwood Osborne, who became one of the first living organ donors when she gave a kidney to her ailing son in the mid-1960s, has died at 88.

Osborne died Thursday in Ashland, Ky., of complications from aspiration pneumonia.

Juanita Osborne donated her kidney in 1966,....

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