TOLEDO, Ohio — A striking billboard on one of Toledo’s busiest roads is drawing attention to a mother’s desperate search for a kidney donor to save her daughter’s life. Toni Johnson hopes the message on Bancroft Street will connect her daughter, Tommy Lee Gillard, with a type O kidney donor.
“Bancroft is a popular street and so many people have seen the billboard,” Johnson said.
Gillard is a talented young woman living with autism. Diagnosed at age four, she has defied expectations, becoming a published author, a model, and an accomplished painter with three solo art exhibitions to her name…