Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, December 21, 1993                   TAG: 9312210046
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-1   EDITION: METRO 
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VFW HOPES IT CAN REACH ALL VETERANS WHO NEED HELP

They adopted a ward at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, where auxiliary member Margarethe Worrell goes to make sure patients have cards at Valentine's Day and cake and ice cream on birthdays. "They know me there," Worrell said. "Most of the time, they just need a smile and a good word."

They take care of the 90-year-old widow of a veteran and her disabled veteran son; they donate food to a home of six veterans who are not eligible for disability; and they help maintain the VFW Post Home in Roanoke.

"But there are so many veterans we don't know about," said auxiliary member Gladys Tayloe. "We try to help them all . . . but there are so many," she said.

And that is why the auxiliary decided to List of contributors. C3 give to the Good Neighbors Fund. With their contribution, the group is reaching out to the many veterans whom they may otherwise never be able to reach.

Checks should be made payable to Good Neighbors Fund and mailed to Roanoke Times & World-News, P.O. Box 1951, Roanoke 24008.

Names - but not the amounts of donations - of contributing businesses, individuals or organizations, as well as memorial and honorific designations, will be listed. Donors may remain anonymous.