by ExecDir | Jul 15, 2012 | Inspirational Stories
The Scott County Clearinghouse benefits yearly from an endowment fund at the Community Foundation, the Scott County Indigent Care Fund. The fund was established in 2000 on behalf of an anonymous donor, whose passion was helping the poor. Shown at left are...
by ExecDir | Jul 15, 2012 | Inspirational Stories
The legacy of Alice and Gerald Miner will live on with the establishment of the Alice and Gerald L. Miner Scholarship. Alice Mae Murphy Miner was the only child of John and Myrtle Murphy and the granddaughter of Dr. Joseph Pat Wilson. She grew up on West Cherry Street...
by ExecDir | Jul 15, 2012 | Inspirational Stories
Eric and Diane Graham of Austin have taken a heartbreaking situation and turned it into one of hope for others with the establishment of four endowment funds at the Scott County Community Foundation. The couple?s daughter, Lauren, was 22 when she was tragically killed...
by ExecDir | Jul 15, 2012 | Inspirational Stories
A scholarship for students who are involved in 4-H is keeping alive the memory of a person who was special to so many. Shelley Comer Akers, age 35, died tragically in a tractor accident on Aug. 2, 2010. She left behind her husband, Kyle; two daughters, Alexis and...
by ExecDir | Jul 15, 2012 | Inspirational Stories
Robert ?Bob? Gene Comer was born and raised on his family?s farm in Leota, Ind., with seven sisters and two brothers. He attended a one-room schoolhouse for his elementary education before attending and graduating from Scottsburg High School where he excelled in,...
by ExecDir | Jul 15, 2012 | Inspirational Stories
A new fund to benefit the Englishton Park Summer Camp program will carry on the legacy of ?Chief John,? a former camp counselor who passed away this year after a short battle with cancer. John Elliott Wittich worked his first summer at Englishton Park in Lexington in...
