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When Mo Anderson, CEO of Keller Williams, challenged her agents to “leave a legacy” during a 2005 speech Vegas, Sue Weir was inspired.
“It was my first Keller Williams Family Reunion Inspirational Breakfast,” she recalls, “and what happened during that event forever changed me – and hopefully the lives of many parents who lose a child.”
Sue returned to Colorado Springs and met with the Pikes Peak Community Foundation to set up a special fund – the PHC Angel Fund - to help assist families with funeral costs for children up to 18 years old. The money, along with cooperation from funeral homes, helps families without life insurance or the financial ability to pay for their child’s funeral.
Earlier this year, the PHC Angels Fund made its first funeral pay out to the parents of Summer Hall, who was just one day old when she passed away.
“I met the grandmother when I was there,” says Sue. “She said that the parents had used their rent money for the funeral. I was able to help them get reimbursed so they didn’t get evicted.”
“It took us two years to acquire the $3,000 that was required before we could begin pay outs,” says Sue. “I made a quilt set that Keller Williams is going to raffle off, but it’s a drop in the bucket. We need monetary donations in order to still help out as many families as we can. It is hard to lose your child and wonder how in the world you are going to be able to pay for a funeral. That's where we are trying to help ease the burden.”
You can mail a donation to: PHC Angels Fund, c/o PPCF, P.O. Box 1443, Colorado Springs, CO 80901. (Please put PHC Angels Fund on the check.) You can also visit www.ppcf.org and click on "donating online" in the lower right hand corner. Scroll down to Human Services and click on "PHC Angels Fund."
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