
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, December 30, 1994                   TAG: 9412300132
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: METRO 
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MEMORIAL GIFT HONORS CO-WORKER

Security Pacific Housing Services wasn't a grand gift-giving scene this year.

This is not to say that the office had lost the Christmas spirit; just that employees decided to concentrate their efforts in a donation to the Good Neighbors Fund.

The company, which finances mobile homes, gave money to the fund in lieu of exchanging gifts. Their contributions were made in memory of Doug Wilson, their former credit manager. who was killed in an auto accident.

Consumer loan processor Joyce Janney said Security Pacific Housing gives to various charities throughout the year, but its Good Neighbors gift this year was given specifically with Wilson in mind.

Thursday's contributors included:

Security Pacific Housing Services, in memory of Doug Wilson

Mary Linn, in memory of John Crowe, Ray Cross, Jessie Holton, Harold Hoback and Al Jacoby

In honor of Monterey Elementary School safety patrols

Cindy Webster's East Salem Elementary School second-grade class

Peter, Ellen and John Taylor Mathews

Alex, Sara, Hoye, John Duckworth

Wendy Zomparelli

In honor of John J. Showalter

Eye Video Productions

Bill Modica, in memory of Lureen Glasgow

Brenda Anderson, in memory of Dolly Frantz

Bonnie and David Wingfield, in memory of Julius D. Simmons

R. Wayne and Marianne Gandee

Marianne R. Finn

Sally Anderson-Harris, in memory of her father, Malcolm "Red" Williams; her aunt Mattie B. Payne; her aunt Maggie B. Scott; and dear friend Blanche Scott

ANONYMOUS DONATIONS$875.00

SUBTOTAL$2,561.00

TOTAL AS OF 12/29/94$95,485.29

Checks should be made payable to Good Neighbors Fund and mailed to Roanoke Times & World-News, P.0. Box 1951, Roanoke 24008.

Names - but not amounts of donations - of contributing businesses, individuals or organizations, as well as memorial and honorific designations, will be listed in the newspaper. Those requesting that their names not be used will remain anonymous. If no preference is stated, the donor's name will be listed.

Gifts cannot be earmarked for any particular individual or family. Gifts are tax-deductible.

by CNB