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things from and/or about
donors and is sometimes
toured around the country,
Sylvia said) approached her
the day after he died.
“I knew he would have
given any and every part,”
she said, explaining that due
to the severity of his head
injuries, there were virtu
ally “no efforts” to keep
him alive. “They called and
inquired about tissue dona
tion.
“I knew he would say,
‘Mom sure!’ So, I told them
absolutely sure. I didn’t have
to think about it.
“They also told me this
one simple tissue donation
could help up to 100 people
and they said the tissue har
vested in this area went to
the Augusta Burn Center.
“To think that something
so simple could save some
one else’s life, I was just so
pleased (that coming later, of
course).” *
Sylvia went on to say she
had found out - and is still
finding out - that it wasn’t
just tissue but bones, ten
dons and more.
“All of those last consid
erably longer than organs,”
she said - even offering up a
for instance. “And my older
son Stephen, he recently
had the ACL in his left knee
totally torn up. He recently
had an ACL transplant from
a cadaver. All of it is just
amazing. Wonderful.”
Wonderful like Joe Camp.
How do you describe a
child you raised for 21 short
years? “You need a book,”
Sylvia said, and friends, she
said have encouraged her to
do just that: Write one.
But, if you tried to put a
finger on it, Joe would be
begin - and this is only the
beginning, mind you - to be
summed up by Sylvia as hav
ing a “fabulous poker face
and a great sense of humor.”
“His favorite movie was
that horrible Scarface,” she
said. “He could do a per
fect Tony Montana (a char
acter played by A 1 Pacino).
He could imitate his Cuban
accent, the whole thing ...
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always doing it straight
faced.”
He also loved basketball
- all sports but basketball in
particular, Sylvia said. And
golf. “I used to buy him a
cheap bag of golf balls and I
bought him a couple of those
putters or irons ... or what
ever they were. He would
stand in the yard and hit golf
balls into our woods. We’ll
probably be finding those
forever.
“I remember I used to
think because of his laid
back manner he would have
made a very good golfer.”
His career choice, however,
was not going to be anything
related to sports. He was
going to be an architect.
“He when he got
into it,” she said of a course
he had begun taking at the
technical school. “He said:
‘I really like this.’ He was
exceptionally good in math
and science with a good
strong math background. He
knew he would be able to
do it.”
But, a sidenote on basket
ball. Sylvia added she didn’t
know how much he liked
basketball until the day of
the funeral when she noted
several “big bruisers” with
tears running down their
cheeks.
Curious, she asked after
ward. “They said they played
basketball with him all the
time down at the rec,” she
said.
Joe, who is by the way
buried near the front of the
cemetery just off of Hwy. 41,
can also be partially summed
up as the rest of us: less than
perfect. In fact, Sylvia freely
admitted he once got arrest
ed and at one point was even
sent to “boot camp.”
But boot camp she said she
thought turned him around
- she said she later wrote the
administrator and chaplain
to say so - and more impor
tantly felt that explained
why she found a note some
months later after his death
in 2001.
“It said: ‘I am no longer a
non-believer,”’ she said, the
note itself written in 1998.
“It was awesome! It says in
it: ‘Why now?’ Was this for
some special occurrence in
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“Our family is all
Christians, although they
don’t all go to church. That
note ... to find that out ...
that he was truly saved was
just awesome!”
Just as awesome - in con
tinuing to gain a glimpse
into whom he was - was
the relationship he shared
with his family - mom,
dad, older brother Stephen
whom you’ve already heard
about, and sisters Karen and
Susan.
Perhaps more so in the
case of Susan, who is the
oldest sister. Whsn Joe was
born, Sylvia said - all of
them inherited their father’s
“just get in there and do it”
mindset, she added - “she
did everything for him and
with him.”
“I asked her one time, ‘Do
you feel like you lost your
closest best friend?’ She just
nodded and walked away.
They were just that close to
him.”
Perhaps it’s only fitting
then Susan - although all
of the family members loved
him equally and played a
part, Sylvia said - helped
write the two sentences
that will best describe Joe
Camp Tuesday to the world.
The two sentences that will
be written on the memo
rial sheet in his name - con
densed pretty much down to
a two-sentence requirement
by the event coordinators.
The first: “When nobody
else will help you, Joe will be
there.”
And the second: “Joe’s
everybody’s favorite.”
“One of the neatest
things,” Sylvia said. “Was
Joe was a totally giving per
son. And that was truly what
his life was all about.”
“So much good (has come
from his life). If you let your
self accept it. So much good
has come out of a really,
really painful situation.”
As Joe Camp’s life came
and went, you can put a “mis
sion complete,” next to his
name. But in God’s tall order
for humankind: in death,
and with the Tournament of
Roses Parade now in sight,
he’s just now beginning to
bloom.
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