Iowa Donor Network has selected Angel Dominguez of Bettendorf and the late Joshua Brennan of Davenport to be honored on the 2025 OneLegacy Donate Life Rose Parade Float in Pasadena, California, on New Year’s Day.
Ms. Dominguez is a heart recipient, and Mr. Brennan was an organ donor. Mr. Brennan, who died in March 2022 at the age of 41, saved and healed numerous lives through organ and tissue donation, the donor network said in a news release.
Mr. Brennan’s floragraph will be placed on the float to memoralize him. Ms. Dominguez, who received a heart transplant in 1992, will ride on the float in the Rose Parade. Ms. Dominguez, her family, and members of Mr. Brennan’s family, are traveling to Pasadena to help decorate the float and be there to watch the parade live. Travel expenses for the families are being paid for thanks to a generous donation to Iowa Donor Network from the Gerdin Family Foundation, the release said.
The 2025 OneLegacy Donate Life float – named Let Your Life Soar – will feature a vibrant scene inspired by the beloved Japanese celebration of Children’s Day. Colorful Koi No Bori (Flying Fish Flags), or windsocks shaped like fish, fly overhead. Streamers bear the family crest, followed by Koi No Bori in a sequence representing father, mother, and children in order of birth. On the OneLegacy float, the koi fish scales will highlight memorial floragraph portraits.
There will be eight living tissue donors from across the nation walking alongside the float, 10 donor recipients riding on the float and 26 donors honored with floragraph portraits on the float, according to the OneLegacy website.
Floragraph portraits, which are made from organic materials, will represent donors who gave the gift of life. The windsocks will soar over a garden of flowering trees featuring stone lanterns and a beautiful bridge.
