Shiawassee Co 911 Dispatcher Troy Gorden Dies After Donated Kidney Fails

SHIAWASSEE COUNTY, MI. (THECOUNT) — Troy Gorden, the Shiawassee County 911 dispatcher who received a kidney donation from a woman he helped during an emergency, died over the weekend, according to reports. He was 52.

Gorden died after the kidney he received from emergency medical technician Traci Settlemyre began to fail.

Gorden worked 30 years in public safety received the long-awaited kidney transplant back in 2017. He returned to work at the Shiawassee County Central Dispatch in January 2018 with the new kidney, reports ABC12.

Settlemyre is now facing health challenges of her own with a diagnosis last summer of stage 4 brain cancer.

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Geo quick facts: Shiawassee is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 70,648. The county seat is Corunna, and the largest city in the county is Owosso. In 2010, the center of population of Michigan was located in Shiawassee County, in Bennington Township – Wikipedia.