On July 10, 2001, Sergeant Dan R. Starnes of the Morgan County, IN Sheriff’s Department lost his life as a result of gunshot wounds sustained during a line of duty gun battle with a burglary suspect four weeks earlier. To keep his memory alive his surviving spouse, Janice organized the Sgt. Dan R. Starnes Memorial Blood Drive in Morgan County later that year and has organized a blood drive each year since in Dan’s memory. In 2007, she decided to take the blood drive statewide and renamed it the Indiana Fallen Officers Blood Drive. This month the 2013 drive begins with donation sites located in nearly every county statewide.
Indiana Blood Facts:
• 1,000 units of blood are needed daily in Indiana
• Each unit of blood donated helps in three different ways:
o Red Cells
o Platelets
o Plasma
The Fort Wayne District is comprised of the following 11 northeastern Indiana counties: Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Huntington, Jay, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wells and Whitley. Listed below are dates, times, and locations for the blood drives within the Fort Wayne District.
County Date Time Location
Adams June 10, 2013 2:30pm-8pm Lehman Park Pavilion, 667 Lehman St., Berne
Allen June 17-22, 2013 9am-5pm American Red Cross, 1212 E. California, Fort Wayne
Blackford May 28, 2013 1pm-5pm Blackford Community Hospital, Hartford City
DeKalb July 1, 2013 12pm-6pm First United Methodist Church, 1203 E. 7th St., Auburn
Huntington June17, 2013 1pm-6:30pm Evangelical United Methodist Church, 1000 Flaxmill, Huntington
Jay June 25, 2013 11am-5pm Jay Community Center, 115 E. Water, Portland
LaGrange June 11, 2013 11am-5pm First Church of God, 777 N. Detroit, LaGrange
Noble May 24, 2013 12pm-5pm Asbury Methodist Church, 605 E. Main St., Albion
Steuben June 10, 2013 12pm-6pm Kid’s League Bingo Hall, 1409 N. Wayne, Angola
Wells July 1, 2013 11am-5pm First Presbyterian Church, 215 E. Dustman Rd., Bluffton
Whitley June 17, 2013 2pm-7pm Whitley County Sheriff Department, 101 W. Market St., Columbia City
