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Learn how others have made an impact through their acts of giving to The Foundation of FirstHealth.
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Dale and JoAnn Erickson
"I can't wait for the next day," Dale Erickson says. "I go to sleep thinking, 'What did I accomplish today? How can I do more tomorrow?' And then I think of all the things I'm going to do.
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George W. Baehne
An Ordinary Man, An Extraordinary Life
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Win and Mira Reynolds
If a love story like that of Win and Mira Reynolds were fiction, balladeers and poets would have celebrated it in song and verse.
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Dr. John and Evelyn Monroe
Pioneer. Millwright. Farmer. Teacher. Merchant. Legislator. Physician. Whatever their trade, whatever their profession, generation after generation of the Monroe and Bruton families has passed down the same legacy to their heirs, be grateful for your heritage and feel responsible for others.
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Roger and Joyce Johnson
Retired teachers Roger and Joyce Johnson must have answered tens of thousands of questions from the "kiddos" during their 30-year career. Occasionally, they'd include a life lesson in their response. "When you divide two into anything greater than itself, what do you do with the remainder?"
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Ed and Millie Cottrell
"It's amazing the number of people who make a fuss over you because you're
100," Ed Cottrell says, "but I don't feel any different. You get up in the
morning and you're happy you're alive."
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Dr. David and Kathleen Allen
As the first board certified oncologist to practice at Moore Regional Hospital Dr. Allen was instrumental in guiding and developing the hospital's cancer services.
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Dr. John and Sue Stevenson
With each visit to the center with my wife, as I waited in the waiting room when she was having chemotherapy therapy or a lab test, I watched patients quietly looking and grasping for hope on every word and the action of the staff who spent most of the time with them.
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Jean Jones
In the months before Clara's House opened to guests in April 2012, Jean Jones and her husband, Larry, frequently dropped by to chat with Pam Hudson, M.Div., former Foundation staff member and FH hospice chaplain.
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Walter and Betty Reid
Walter Reid shared the fruits of his "charmed" life by establishing the Walter and Betty Reid Fund in recognition of the outstanding health care provided to the community by FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital and in support of the Foundation of FirstHealth's Stepping Stones Campaign.
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Chris James
For over 20 years Chris James went quietly and competently about his work for the Environmental Services department at FirstHealth Montgomery Memorial Hospital, walking to the hospital each day from his nearby home.
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Dr. Michael and Betty Pishko
One of the guiding forces behind the formation of the Moore Regional Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pinehurst Surgical Clinic was Dr. Michael T. Pishko. Dr. Pishko didn't arrive a moment too soon when he joined Dr. Clement Monroe, the hospital's founding physician, in 1936.
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Dr. John and Nancy Ellis
Dr. John and Nancy Ellis have been making a difference all their lives. As the founding father of the joint replacement program at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, Dr. Ellis built from scratch a legacy that now performs more than 1,800 joint replacement procedures per year.
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Don and Emily Bredeson
As dedicated members of the Foundation of FirstHealth for over 30 years, they were part of the continuum to make quality of life in their community far better in the future. In 1991, they joined the Scroll Society, the Foundation's most successful annual giving program.
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Mary Jane Knight
Mary Jane's relationship with Hospice began over forty years ago when she became aware of the need for a Hospice program in the Sandhills, especially a Hospice House, in 1979 when she attended an organizational meeting of Sandhills Hospice as a representative of the American Lung Association.
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Joyce Stanton Greene
Joyce Stanton Greene began each day with a prayer, just as she did that morning when she suddenly realized something was terribly wrong. After being rushed to the emergency room at Moore Regional Hospital, she was taken to Chapel Hill where the doctors warned her family that "it didn't look good." Twenty-four hours later she was undergoing brain surgery.
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Raymond North
In mid-summer 1996, Pinehurst lost a former leader, Raymond E. North, who will be remembered for his community involvement. But, in his passing, he leaves an extraordinary gift to Moore Regional Hospital which will remain a lasting testament to his special love for the Sandhills community.
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Ruth Lyman Watkins
To all outward appearances, Ruth Lyman Watkins was an intelligent, successful, pragmatic businesswoman who lived comfortably in a lovely home in Southern Pines. No one thought she was a dreamer.
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Fran and Pat Marki
For two hard-working professionals with corporate careers, retirement meant a permanent vacation away from the chill winds of Chicago and into the warm embrace of a Florida breeze...
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Mildred Burns McIntosh
For six decades Mildred Burns McIntosh and Moore Regional Hospital were good neighbors. From her home across the street from the emergency department, she watched a small community hospital grow into one of the top-rated health care facilities in the country, growth made possible through the commitment and generosity of generations of good neighbors.
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Edward and Mary Bartley, Jr.
As members of our country’s “Greatest Generation,” Ed and Mary Bartley lived a life of personal and professional accomplishment, sacrifice for country, service to community, and devotion to faith and family...
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Warren and Marie Walk
"I remember that night like it was yesterday," Warren said the first time he saw Marie Sevier more than 70 years ago. "While I was home from college visiting my parents...
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Pat and John Matchulat
Don’t tell Pat and John Matchulat they’re in the "twilight" of their life because they're too busy living—enjoying their family, spending time with friends...
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Helen N. A. McLendon
Helen Marion Nelson, 'Nellie' as she is affectionately called, was born in the small New England town of Proctor, VT, the daughter of Swedish immigrants. She was admittedly...
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