2016 Sharon Schultz Lucas

Sharon Schultz Lucas_Bridge to Life_LifeNet Health_LifePointSHARON SCHULTZ LUCAS

Organ, Tissue, and Cornea Donor

Age 53 ~ Gilbert, SC

Donated on 12/29/2014

Honored by lifepoint-sc.org

Sharon was a joyful woman who liked to joke around with her friends and family.  Known for her unique laugh, Sharon liked to help people and lived life to its fullest.  She loved to travel, and after the death of her daughter Megan, Sharon travelled to Pasadena to watch the Rose Parade. Sharon has always been an advocate for organ, eye and tissue donation and she made sure Megan was a donor so she could help others.  When Sharon passed away from a motorcycle accident, she saved even more lives by donating her liver, corneas, and tissue. Sharon retired from the accounting department of Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2012. In her free time, she enjoyed drawing, painting, watching NASCAR and visiting friends and family.

Sharon’s Story

Sharon Schultz Lucas was a joyful woman who liked to joke around with her friends and family. She was known for her unique laugh. Sharon liked to help people and was a frequent blood donor. She also lived life to the fullest and enjoyed traveling. One of her trips actually took her and some of her family to the 2006 Rose Parade. That was just a few weeks after her only daughter, Megan, died in an automobile accident and became a tissue donor. Sharon was instrumental in assuring Megan became a donor. She was especially gratified that a small child received Megan’s heart valves. Now, Sharon’s family is honored to travel back to Pasadena to see her floragraph on the 2016 Donate Life Rose Parade Float.

Sharon retired from the accounting department of Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina in 2012. In her free time, she enjoyed drawing, painting, watching NASCAR and visiting friends and family.

A supporter of organ, eye and tissue donation even before her daughter’s death, Sharon continued to encourage others to register as donors so they could save lives. Sharon died in a motorcycle accident on December 29, 2014, at the age of 53 and became a donor. She was able to save another person by donating her liver. She also donated her eyes and other tissue.

Sharon’s mom, Dorry Schultz, states, “Even though losing Sharon was heartbreaking, we are grateful that she was a donor. We hope that it will make others consider becoming donors, too.”

Sharon’s sisters will travel to Pasadena to see her floragraph on the 2016 Donate Life Rose Parade Float, almost a year to the day that she died and ten years after first attending the Rose Parade.