If every family battled kidney disease like the Strackhouse family, there’d be no shortage of donor kidneys — only recovering recipients getting off dialysis and getting on with their lives. The Pennsylvania-based family of six siblings, all of whom went to Penn State, came to their extreme generosity through the trials of a terrible genetic curse. Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) traveled in their bloodline. It took their father’s life way too soon at age 51 in 1986.