One week ago, we lost a transplant community legend: our dear friend and longtime supporter Mary Jo Lovely. In 2006, Mary Jo Lovely with diagnosed with emphysema and told that she would need a lung transplant to survive. As her health rapidly began to decline, Mary Jo, her husband, Ken Lovely, and her daughter, Danielle Bailey, waited, watched, and endured. In June 2007, […]

We have all seen the Love Is and Life Is… Cartoon strips. These sayings always have catchy little phrases expressing feel-good sentiments about Love and Life. When you really think about love, it is an indescribable feeling that takes over your thoughts and emotions. From the time a mother finds out she is pregnant until the time the child is […]

Mary Jo (Forcinio) Boyes Lovely, 60, of Gilbertsville, wife of Kenneth G. Lovely, passed away Thursday February 11, 2021 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Norristown, she was the daughter of the late Bernard and Rose (Quigley) Forcinio. Mary was an organ donation champion. She was a donor family and had two separate lung transplants. She […]