FedEx dedicates plane to St. Jude patient
FedEx named a Cessna airplane in honor of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital patient Kenzie on Thursday, Aug. 5, as part of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. (Courtesy of St. Jude/ALSAC)
The program, in its ninth year, names a plane after a patient who is also a child of a FedEx employee. This year’s honoree is 17-year-old Kenzie.
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