Loving Daniel News Today

When Nicole Dice was hired as the superintendent of Turkeyfoot Valley Area School District in 2020, she had no idea she was making history.

The nonprofit organization Loving Daniel, based in Uniontown, started with one family’s devastating loss, but has led them to help hundreds of others through similar pain. Nicole and Bill Dice’s son, Daniel John, was born at 8:38 a.m. on Nov. 6, 2015. By 10:07 a.m. he was gone, succumbing to a fatal form of dwarfism known as thanatophoric dysplasia. The couple spent 89 minutes with their son before he passed away, and then another three days at the hospital with him, making memories, ...