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It was Feb. 20, 2010.<\/p>\n
Natalie Bolin \u2013 along with two friends and her younger sister \u2013 were returning home from the Wisconsin boys state high school championship swim meet in Madison, where they had cheered on teams from the Fox Valley.<\/p>\n
The car hit black ice on the highway, crossed the median and crashed into oncoming traffic. Natalie died from her injuries. The other three girls survived.<\/p>\n
Natalie\u2019s death came one week before she would have turned 17 years old.<\/p>\n
Despite her shock over the tragic accident, Natalie\u2019s mother Mary Jo Menzies consented to the donation of her daughter\u2019s bone and connective tissues. \u201cIt was hard for me at the time,\u201d Mary Jo remembers. \u201cBut I knew that\u2019s what Natalie would have wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mary Jo describes Natalie as a giving, kind and happy young woman. \u201cShe reached out to people. She had a lot of friends from all walks of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
From the age of nine, Natalie was an avid swimmer, competing on both the Oshkosh West and YMCA teams. She swam at five national meets and planned to swim in college. She was also an enthusiastic volunteer at Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, where Mary Jo worked as a nurse for more than two decades.<\/p>\n
To keep Natalie\u2019s memory alive, her family established two scholarships in her honor. One is the Natalie Kate Bolin Memorial Fund to send 20 Midwest youngsters to a week-long annual swim camp in Ely, Minn. The other scholarship is the Natalie Bolin Mercy Medical Center Volunteer Scholarship Award that gives $500 to student volunteers who donate the highest amount of hours at the center. The family funds the scholarships through an annual swim event at the Oshkosh YMCA, celebrating Natalie\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n
According to the American Tissue Services Foundation \u2013 the nonprofit organization that facilitated Natalie\u2019s donation \u2013 her generosity as a tissue donor is enhancing many people\u2019s lives. Fifty-one tissues were created to increase the strength, mobility and independence of patients in need.<\/p>\n
\u201cNatalie had an incredible impact on her family, friends, teammates and people she didn\u2019t even know,\u201d Mary Jo says. \u201cHer legacy will live on in many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
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