David, Ephraim’s brother, was eleven months younger and the baby of 3 children.  When David was 14, he was diagnosed with Lupus which eventually attacked his kidneys.  After enduring dialysis, he underwent a kidney transplant with his mother.  That kidney failed after 7 years and David went  back on the transplant list and dialysis for several years.  In 1996, he and his sister underwent a second successful transplant that lasted close to 6 years.  David was back on dialysis and working with Ephraim while going through the process to undergo another transplant when he died unexpectedly from heart failure on April 23, 2003.

David was 34 years old at the time of his death.  While he had been sick for more than half of his life, he lived life to its fullest, never complaining and never leading on that anything in his world was ever wrong.