Brandon High-Tea Fundraiser To Benefit Woman Needing Transplant

As a young FishHawk Ranch mother continues to fight for her life against end-stage renal failure, friends and strangers alike are rallying to raise funds to offset her mounting medical expenses. The latest fundraiser is a high tea planned today, Jan. 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. at The Tea Cup Tea Room in Brandon, at 1107 Lithia-Pinecrest Road. The $30  cost includes soup, sandwiches, salad and dessert.

Earlier this month, the newly opened Title Boxing Club in Brandon, in the Bloomingdale Square, Publix- and Walmart-anchored shopping center, hosted a fundraiser for Carver, and proceeds from a Texas Hold ‘Em tournament and a Christmas carnival in December were dedicated to Devon Cooley Carver.

She needs a live kidney donor; her kidneys have failed due to complications from Type 1 diabetes, which she’s had since age 2.

In the meantime, the 34-year-old, is receiving unexpected support:

• A Tampa marketing company, which has asked to remain anonymous, financed three billboards featuring Carver, reading: “Local Mother Needs Living Kidney Donor.” The two digital and one standard billboards went up in December along Interstate 75 in Tampa.

• In addition to purchasing billboard space, Carver’s anonymous benefactor has set up a website, Save Devon-OperationKidney, where the public can make donations for Carver.

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For more on the plight of Bloomingdale High School graduate Devon Cooley Carver, read the story written by Bloomingdale-Riverview Patch Editor D'Ann White. It features interviews with Carver and family members.

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For more information about tonight’s High-Tea Fundraiser, call 813-654-6543.

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