Ocean City community honors Steve Pappas with a memorial blood drive

OCEAN CITY, Md. -Delmarva Blood Bank held a blood drive in honor of an Ocean City icon on Friday, Nov. 13th. Steve Pappas, the long time owner of the orginal Greene Turtle, passed away in late October after a battle with cancer. Pappas was known throughout the community for his charity and philanthropy work.

Ralph Groves is the account manager from the Blood Bank of Delmarva, and explained that Pappas planned this drive 4-5 months ago, before he passed.

“Steve had leukemia, he wanted to help out patients who needed blood.” Said Groves.

The donations will benefit other cancer patients, along with any hospital patients in need of blood.

“There are other reasons to donate blood, other than just a transfusion.” Said Groves. “For cancer patients, there is for burn victims and other things. So he wanted to have this drive.”

For more information on the Blood Bank of Delmarva or their upcoming events, visit their website.