June 18, 2014
Tarcia Patton says her decision to donate her son, Jermaine Cullum, Jr.'s (shown) organs ,‘was something he wanted to do.’
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Gift of Hope African American Task Force to Honor Parents of Jermaine Cullum Jr.
Tarcia Patton watched her 16-year-old son, Jermaine Cullum Jr., languish on life support for a week before she made a decision in a way only a mother can: She consented to donate his organs because “That was something he wanted to do.” Jermaine and his mom previously talked about his choice to sign an organ donor card, something the Christ the King Jesuit College Prep High School sophomore didn’t get around to doing before he collapsed in May, while playing in a basketball tournament at Riverside Brookfield High School.