![]() “My angel approached me on the soccer field and asked how she could help me,” he said. As for John–he refers to Babs as his “angel.” “‘I have two of them.’”Ĭonklin said her strong sense of faith compelled her to make the generous offer. “I told him, ‘I can help and I can offer my kidney,’” she said. When she found out through a mutual friend that a fellow soccer parent needed a kidney, Conklin immediately approached him on the soccer field. “Our daughters were on a traveling soccer team together in junior high and that’s when we first probably met each other–just at games,” Conklin said. At the time, the two were almost strangers. ![]() The families are joined together not by blood or marriage but by a unique gift: a kidney, donated by Barbara “Babs” Conklin, a first grade schoolteacher, to John Nettleton, a business owner, in 2006. This Donate Life Month, the Nettleton and Conklin families are celebrating nearly 16 years of being family.
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