ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Alberta Jones remembered her son Fredrick as a man with a strong will and desire to help. “Every time he got paid. He’d always take out a homeless person. Buy them lunch, dinner, breakfast….he just had a heart of gold,” said Jones.
But his life was cut short seven years ago after a car accident. “It’s hard to believe that it’s been 7 years. And to me, seems like just yesterday,” said Jones.
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Frederick signed up to be an organ donor after his sister had trouble finding one herself. “So when I received mine, I was so thankful and grateful I got my life back…I could see a future again for myself,” said Miceale Jones, Frederick’s sister.
That went against their Diné culture in which donating organs and getting cremated are forbidden. “And because of that, those two wishes that I honored, my tribe families, both mother’s side and father’s side and siblings, did about-face on us,” said Jones.