“No one is saying anything, no one has been out,” said a neighbor of Tammie Garland.

“It’s a weird feeling around here right now — we’re all mourning in our own way.”

Tammie Garland organized a blood drive for her son, Cameron, who passed away from a rare case of leukemia in 2013.

Her son needed a lot of blood transfusions, so after he died, she vowed to hold a blood drive every year on the day he died.

“I watched the transfusions and how long and how much, because you can’t tell your body is depleting it, but we all have to have it,” Garland said.

Carter Blood Care is the organization taking the blood for the drive this year.

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