A Keller couple is using their tragic experience to help families who have also lost children to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. SIDS America provides emotional support and financial help to grieving families. Bill and Cheryl Darnell launched the organization on what would have been their son's first birthday. "I couldn't handle it, thinking, 'We're sitting here paying for our son's death before we've even paid off all of his birth bills,'" Cheryl Darnell said. "And that was really hard, too. And I know we're not the only ones who have to deal with that, too." Billy, the couple's first son, died on a Saturday morning in March 2008. He was only 5 months old.

First Published: Nov 13, 2009 5:24 PM CST

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