ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, December 10, 1996 TAG: 9612100116
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-5 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: Good Neighbors Fund
The Quilters of First Church of the Brethren sent a donation to the Good Neighbors Fund in honor of their church and in memory of its deceased members. One of the quilters, Virginia Emmons, said she had been a member of the group since 1982, but that the the group got started years earlier by many of the current members' mothers.
"Although my mother was a quilter, I never thought I'd like quilting," Emmons said in a telephone interview. "But the quilting bug bit me and I've been doing it ever since. As a matter of fact, I'm quilting right now."
The group meets each Thursday at the church, where two quilting frames are set up. The women don't make the actual quilts. They just do the quilting. When the completed quilt is sold, its price is based on the size of the quilt and the complexity of the design. Their customers have heard about their work mostly by word of mouth.
Emmons thinks that hand-quilting is becoming a dying art, even though the quilters' group is very dedicated. "It got in my blood," she said.
Monday's contributors included:
Quilters of First Church of the Brethren, in honor of their church and in memory of its deceased quilters
Tuesday Nottingham Hills Bridge Club, in memory of Bill Tomann
Line Officers Association, Order of the Eastern Star
Janie Webb, in memory of her husband, Skeeter Webb
Bonnie and Ed Waybright, in honor of R.A.M. House volunteers
Richard and Mary Meador
Herman G. Britts, in memory of Lewis Williamson and Willie E. Dillard
Mary G. Bradford, in memory of S. Elwood Bradford
Jack and Margaret Young
Charlotte Sieber
Janice S. Humphreys
Gwen Graham, in memory of Bill Graham
Lucille and Norman Elmore, in honor of their grandchildren
Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Gilmer, in memory of their son, Gregory H. Gilmer
Ed and Lelia Myrick
Diane Goode, in loving honor of her parents, Archie and Elsie Goode
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Magee
Dean and Doris Cline Egge
Marie Davis Huff
Stu and Margaret Franklin
Brenda F. Brown, in memory of Silas and Mary Fralin
Elaine S. Smoot and family, in memory of Chick Smoot
Lee Lang, Mary Turner, Betty Thomas, Edna Martin and Dee Overstreet, in memory of Edna Barden and Laura Adamy
Kazim Temple directors staff
Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson, in honor of their friends and neighbors
Doris Watson, in memory of Dr. and Mrs. T.J. Humphries
Lois King
In loving memory of Dottie and Keen Campbell
Grover and Evelyn Ford, in memory of their son, Bob
The Women's Fellowship of First Church of the Brethren, in honor of their pastor, David R. Miller, and of their pastor emeritus and his wife, Paul and Kay Alwine
Howard and Virginia Emmons, in honor of sisters and brother-in-law, June Hoal, Margaret and Ron Schomisch; and in memory of Lefty Hoal
Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Waldron
M.H. Alexander
Polly Armistead
Betty Winfree
S.G. Zimmerman, in memory of Mearl and Beulah Helems
Nancy and Bill Noell, in memory of Rick Gilbert
Charles E. Caldwell, in memory of his wife, Christine Caldwell
Cecil and Dorothy Kincer, in memory of their parents, Virginia and Reginald Holland and Madeline and Rellie Kincer
ANONYMOUS DONATIONS $170.00
SUBTOTAL $2,962.00
TOTAL AS OF 12/9/96 $27,162.10
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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