Adele R. Argot, of Myerstown, never thought that at 81-years-old she would still have her red hair.
On Tuesday, June 25, she walked into the small the basement hair salon of Marion Oxenreider to have her hair cut. She’ll take that hair and send it off through the mail to be matched with other donations and be turned into a hairpiece for a young person suffering from medically related hair loss.
She hopes that by spreading the word that donating hair is possible, more people, especially younger people, will begin to donate their hair.
“For me still having hair on my head, now it’s thinned, but it’s still primarily red, or orange, or whatever people want to call it, you know,” Argot said, “To be able to pass that on to some little tot, or older child, depends on whom they choose, I’d like to make the people aware of it.”
Oxenreider said that to her knowledge Argot is the only person she’s cut hair for that donates their hair. She’s been cutting Argot’s hair for about 10 years.
Argot first learned of hair donation, as well as the people that it helped, through a newspaper article on Locks for Love, a nonprofit organization that collects donated hair and turns it into hairpieces for children suffering from hair loss.