From one sister to another, many lives are touched

Back in 1991, Carmencita Conry needed a kidney transplant. Her sister, Marisa McLeod, volunteered to donate a kidney, and together the sisters came to UNC Hospitals for the surgery, which was a great success.

But the sisters story doesnt end there. Their experience inspired their aunt, Shirley Gilman, to create a fund that would help pay for the expenses incurred by both kidney transplant patients at UNC and kidney donors, whose expenses arent always covered by insurance. Gilman named the fund in honor of the sisters brother, Allan Brewster, who passed away of unrelated causes while his sisters were dealing with the kidney transplant.

Gilman donated to the fund bit by bit over the years as she could, a couple hundred dollars here, a thousand there, until she passed away in 2008 . Then, in her will, she surprised everyone by leaving $4.7 million to the Allan Brewster Fund for the benefit of the UNC Kidney Center.

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