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By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
January 25, 2009
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,....