ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, December 4, 1996 TAG: 9612040062
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-1 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: The Good Neighbors Fund
For almost 40 years, B.C. and Elizabeth Stout have lived between Vera Smith and Becky Jones on Maine Avenue in Northwest Roanoke. And for almost 40 years, they've been an example of what it means to be neighbors.
The three households look after each other like family. In the summer they garden together. In the winter they make sure the snow gets shoveled off sidewalks. Whenever one of them cooks something especially good, it is happily shared.
They live all year long with the kindness and charity normally associated with the holiday season.
In the past, according to Elizabeth Stout, they exchanged small gifts to celebrate Christmas. But this year they decided to do something different. Something "more meaningful."
"We decided we'd each give to the Good Neighbors Fund in honor of the other two," she said. "That way, our gifts would go to someone who really needed it."
With their donations, the Stouts, Smiths and Joneses have brought to the needy of Roanoke the same thing they've brought to each other all these years: a helping hand.
They've also showed their community that being a neighbor is about more than living next door. It's about caring.
"If one of us needs something," Elizabeth Stout said, "We know that the others are there to help us."
Tuesday's contributors included:
Elizabeth Stout, in honor of "Good Neighbors" Vera Smith and Becky Jones
Dennis Pendleton
Koiner and "Ab" Ellett, in memory of Florence and Burrell Stiff
Bob and Nancy Wingfield, in memory of their parents
Barbara Diehl, in memory of John Diehl Sr.
Ranny and Faye Becker, in memory of Jack Land, Charles Isaacs, Bill Smith, Paul Rice, Bob Hines and Bob Goldsmith
LaRue B. Mason, in memory of Wick Mason
Jack Edwards, in memory of Betty, Jackie and Brenda Edwards, Larry Pack, Jack Quinn and Nathan Brown
Marie Hubble, in memory of Frank and Tuffy Hubble
Bruce W. Janney, in memory of Betty Janney
Kate Francisco
Charles and Eleanor Manning
Disciples Class, Bonsack United Methodist Church
Cynthia Northcross, in memory of Lou Gore
Roger and Susan Layne, in honor and in memory of all their loved ones
Windsor Hills UMC Tours, in memory of Winnie Lankford
Claude E. and Peggy W. Stewart
Ken and Jean Davis
Gloria L. Tayloe, in honor of the Board and Barber families
Jack and Carol Bogaczyk, in memory of Tony Stamus
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Allison Jr.
Vernon C. Allen Sr., in memory of Sara Lee Allen
Gladys and Rupert Cutler, in memory of Richard E. Cutler
JoAnn and Jimmy Michael, in honor of Logan and Christian
Richard A. Cohen
Roth and Mary Alice Rose, in memory of their parents
Margaret H. Starkey, in memory of Joe and Ann Starkey
Elta R. Hayden
Lucile S. Turner, in memory of her sister and brothers
Elsie F. Coffey, in memory of Merl R. Coffey
In memory of Marshall and Maude McDaniel and Clarence and Maggie Collins
Darlene and Paul Zelenek, in memory of their nephew, Loni, and sister, Margie Payne
Ruth H. Tear, in memory of Mary Naff
Blue Ridge Region, Porsche Club of America
Jack and Betty Newbill, in honor of Dink and Jeanne Engleby
Leonard and Janice Allen, in memory of Mildred Parker
Ross and Dot Campbell, in honor of the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Smith Jr.
Nancy Bourne
Dorothy B. Cannaday
Oscar and Vera Brinker
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Brown Jr.
Eleanor M. Caskey
Kathy and Pat Womack
James Caldwell
Li-Tzu Yen Kuo
Virginia Petty
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Anderson
Elva S. Cannaday
In memory of Elizabeth Harrison, Newcastle, England
In memory of Jerry W. Shaffer, by his family
ANONYMOUS DONATIONS $1,565.00
SUBTOTAL $4,180.00
TOTAL AS OF 12/3/96 $16,343.10
Checks should be made payable to Good Neighbors Fund and mailed to The Roanoke Times, 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.
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