Stacy Sewll

Stacy Sewell, the Quartz Hill woman who received lung transplants from both of her parents in a 1993 operation that made medical history and saved her life, has died of complications of bacterial pneumonia, her family said Tuesday. Sewell, whose own lungs were ravaged by a lifelong battle against cystic fibrosis, died Saturday--her 24th birthday--at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles, the facility where the landmark surgery took place Jan. 29, 1993.

Stacy Sewell, the Quartz Hill woman who received lung transplants from both of her parents in a 1993 operation that made medical history and saved her life, has died of complications of bacterial pneumonia, her family said Tuesday. Sewell, whose own lungs were ravaged by a lifelong battle against cystic fibrosis, died Saturday--her 24th birthday--at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles, the facility where the landmark surgery took place Jan. 29, 1993.