ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Friday, January 3, 1997                TAG: 9701030086
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: B-1  EDITION: METRO 
COLUMN: Good Neighbors Fund

FUNERAL FLORAL FUND SENT TO HELP OTHERS

Roanoke Civic Center employees look after each other like a family. When a co-worker dies, the care does not stop there.

Connie Craig is the chairwoman of the Civic Center's Flower Fund Committee, which collects money for co-workers' funeral flowers. She noticed some money left over after the committee bought flowers for Mary Pickeral, who died of a heart attack just before Thanksgiving.

Craig, who worked with Pickeral for 13 years, said the committee wanted to do something more for her. With the remaining money from the flower collection, the committee made a contribution to the Good Neighbors Fund in memory of Pickeral. The donation was made in the hope that it could be put to good use by people in need.

Thursday's contributors included:

The Roanoke Civic Center Employees, in memory of Mary Pickeral

In honor of Julia H. Overstreet

Hubert and Mary Hobbs, in memory of our parents and grandparents

Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Weaver

W. David and Lynn M. Price, in loving memory of our fathers, William P. "Bill" Price and Ralph McCormick, and in honor of our mothers, Frances B. Price and Gladys L. McCormick

Jerry and Sandra Jones

Judy Feierabend

The Gilliland-Holcomb Family, in honor of Inez Hubbard

Sharon S. Padgett

In memory of John Allen Rehor and John Howard Rehor

Raymond Chaves, in honor of Nancy Willon

Bill, Lynn, Mary, Ann and Bill Meador Jr.

L. Dorcas Lofland

Camille and Hugh Sullivan

The Tom Poulin Family

Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Kyle

Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Zimmerman

Daphne Kahill

John N. Starnes

NON-ANONYMOUS DONATIONS$1,385.00

ANONYMOUS DONATIONS$325.00

SUBTOTAL$1,710.00

TOTAL AS OF today: $91,993.62

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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