(KNZA)--Services have been set for a Holton High School senior who died over the weekend while waiting on a second double-lung transplant.
According to an obituary from the Mercer Funeral Home in Holton, 18-year-old Madison Taliaferro died Saturday evening at a St. Louis hospital after a courageous long fought battle with cystic fibrosis.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held Friday morning at 11:00 at Holton High School, where she served as senior class vice-president.
A visitation and viewing will be Thursday evening from 4 to 7 at the funeral home.
Born with the cystic fibrosis, Madison had a continued lung function decline until she received a double lung transplant six years ago.
But her body recently rejected those lungs, with her lung function declining from 48 percent to 22.5 percent.
Doctors aren’t sure what caused the rejection to occur.
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