Memorials to WCCF Make a Difference

When Judge Robert Roth died last year, Marge Roth made an important and wise decision: she designated the White County Food Pantry’s Endowment Fund at WCCF as the recipient of memorial donations to her late husband. Since the Food Pantry’s ability to meet the heart-rending need of White County’s families is stretched to the limit, the Roth family’s decision to name the Food Pantry’s Endowment Fund as the recipient of memorials was timely: the memorial contributions add to the Food Pantry Fund’s ability to grow to a point where the Fund’s annual earnings will cover operating expenses. When that self-sustaining level of endowment is reached, the Food Pantry can use every donated dollar for food and let the Food Pantry Fund pay for operations.

When Ruth Ann Chitty died in October of this year, her family made a similar decision to memorialize her by accepting donations to organizations about which she cared deeply. The Chitty family named WCCF’s 4-H Endowment Fund as a beneficiary of donations made in her memory, an especially fitting expression of Ruth Ann’s personal involvement in 4-H and her commitment to seeing that her students and grandchildren reach their potential through participation in 4-H.

We hope that more and more people, faced with difficult decisions in difficult times, will also decide to invest in White County’s future with memorials to departed loved ones.