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Football Player's Donation Gives Other a New Lease on Life
![Donor Kyle "Gibby" Vosberg](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/kv.jpg?itok=Wd1kuvqw)
Kyle "Gibby" Vosberg
(October 11, 1996 - February 12, 2016)
After a Tragic Loss, a Mother Finds Healing through Correspondence
![Donor Mariah Marshall](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/mariah.jpg?itok=zibFU8zM)
Mariah Marshall
(December 3, 1997 - January 24, 2015)
Grateful Farmer Thanks Donor's Family for Restored Sight
![Recipient Scott](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/scott_bowman.jpg?itok=g-ZECKVX)
The heartfelt letter below is just one example of how corneal transplants greatly improve a recipient’s quality of life. Scott Bowman from Maquoketa, IA received his cornea transplant in June 2018 at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics:
Honoring an Angler
![Donor Robert D. Greiner](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/r.d._greiner_crop.jpg?itok=qEtWU6dh)
Robert D. Greiner
(April 14, 1946 – May 13, 2017)
A Mother and Daughter's Love is Never Separated
![Donors Candy "Freida" Barnes and Andrea "Annie" Barnes](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/candy_andrea_barnes_photo_002.jpg?itok=D8aUh5Xk)
Gift of Sight donor - Richard Murphy
![Donor Richard Murphy](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/richard_james_murphy_photo_for_tgt_2018_.jpg?itok=tV9h6Hiu)
Richard Murphy
(August 20, 1964 - October 1, 2017)
Lions Legacy Project
![Members of the Iowa Lions Foundation](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/lions_l.jpg?itok=gnuazoQ3)
The Iowa Lions Foundation recently voted to award $30,000 of the $65,000 they are raising for the Iowa Lions Legacy Project to support the Iowa Lions Eye Bank research team. This funding allowed ILEB to purchase a much-needed piece of research equipment, the Chemidoc MP Imaging System.
Donor Family Visits ILEB
![Donor family members Geri and Patti](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/quilt.jpg?itok=YI1I8pkh)
Family Services Coordinator, Deb Schuett, welcomed special guests to the eye bank—Geri Ryan and her daughter, Patti, from the Dubuque area. Geri is the wife of Paul F. Ryan who died in 2002 at Finley Hospital in Dubuque. Paul donated his corneas to the Iowa Lions Eye Bank for transplant to 2 grateful recipients, one from Illinois and the other from Iowa.
Over 40 Years Later, A Gift of Sight is Still Remembered
![Donor Charles Lucas](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/donor.jpg?itok=iXqXSj9O)
Charles Lucas
(September 21, 1947 - March 26, 1971)
Lions’ efforts in 2007 result in new therapy in 2018
![Lions International logo](https://iowalionseyebank.org/sites/iowalionseyebank.org/files/styles/teaser_image/public/field/image/lions_copy.png?itok=IfuUSFQQ)
Physician clinicians and researchers in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa continue to make important research breakthroughs in the fight to combat Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), a genetically inherited eye disease that causes babies to be born blind or children to go blind before reaching school age.