Articles from August 2025

Keith Algreen

Family's decision to donate eyes, organs and tissues still reverberates decades later

Monday, August 11, 2025
Keith Algreen was 11 years old and had just started the sixth grade in the fall of 1986. He was not a big guy, “…four foot eight and weighed all of 80 pounds wet,” says his mother, Marilyn. He was making plans to invite his friend, Jodi, to dance with him at the school’s fall celebration, and planned to tell her it was because he was the shortest in the class and she was the tallest.