Thank you for visiting our memorial donation page. We wish to honor our loved one by supporting JDRF because we believe in their vision of a world without type 1 diabetes (T1D). Joe Orr was the grandfather of Ellie and Reed who were diagnosed with T1D at the age of 9. He championed for a cure since their diagnosis and with your support and donations the fight for a cure will continue in his name. 

With T1D, a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin—a hormone essential to turning food into energy. The daily life of someone with T1D brings a multitude of challenges, including insulin injections that need to be carefully balanced with eating and activity, disruptive glucose monitoring, sleepless nights—and wishing for a tomorrow where this struggle doesn’t exist.

Your generosity will help JDRF fund life-changing breakthroughs to remove the incredible daily burden of this disease—until it no longer exists.

Thank you for honoring the memory of our loved one and supporting JDRF's important work.