The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, Friends for Life, Carter Bloodcare, and Big 95 have teamed up for the “Big Texas Christmas Present” to benefit Gifts for Grannies and Grandpas too! We are collecting items for elderly and disabled people who have no one to remember them during the holiday season. Donations will [...]
Baylor University’s quarterback, Robert Griffin, III was surprised with an award today by Grant Teaff recognizing Robert for what he has done ‘off the field’ through volunteering with Friends for Life and the Special Olympics. We had a chance to thank him for volunteering in our Adult Day Care Center and taking time to spend [...]
Forever Yum – Healthy, delicious food to go and the proceeds benefit the work of Friends for Life.
PEACH COBBLER – SHE WAS 96 YEARS OLD and counting on us to help her continue living in her own home. She called the volunteer who adopted her ‘cricket’.
She got up that day and fixed her hair. Spent time deciding just what she should wear. When she was content with herself once more, She wheeled to the lobby to wait by the door. She searched the faces of each one who came, Waiting for someone who’d call her by name. “Where are you [...]
I never heard of Huntington’s Disease until I met an tiny, elderly lady who had this horrible disease. It is a degenerative brain disorder that affects a person’s ability to walk, talk and think. Victims shake uncontrollably.
Read about Inez Russell and Friends for Life in Rewards of service plentiful in the Washington times.
She was given a turkey for the holidays, but she didn’t have a stove. She really wanted to have a Christmas dinner, so she wrapped the turkey in foil and cooked it for twenty two hours on her space heater.