Tribute gifts extend the positive impact made by extraordinary people in our lives, observed Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation Treasurer Christine Adams, CPA, standing, who looks over a list of memorials and honorariums given to the Foundation in support of our community hospital with Foundation Executive Director, Patricia Gaughan DiPalma.

WESTFIELD – Tribute Gifts offer a unique opportunity to recognize someone who has memorably touched your life. Remembering a family member, a dear friend or a colleague (in life or in death) is something that many members in our community customarily do at the Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation.

Many are familiar with the hospital foundation’s mission and how it helps the hospital remain on the cutting edge of patient care. Now in its 43rd anniversary year, the Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation, via its donors, continues its philanthropy by promoting outstanding healthcare.

Donating a Memorial Gift to honor the memory of a friend or loved one who is no longer with us or recognizing a dear friend or loved one with an Honorarium is an appropriate expression of thoughtfulness and always appreciated.

Following are those remembered:

Memorials

¯ Arthur Betts from Carol A. and Donald L. Baumet, John W. Beckman, Tracy and Linda Bennett, R. Peter and Carolyn Bills, Susan and J. Douglas Breon, Marilyn Jean Casler, Alan and Lisa Holbrook, Richard and Bonnie Lancaster, Michael and Antoinette Naeser, Brian and Maggie Paternosh, Earl and Lillian Saunders

¯ Connie Cash from Carol A. and Donald L. Baumet, William and Barbara Branch, Arthur F. Villemain

¯ Mary P. Cogliano from Tracy and Linda Bennett, Charlotte Calarco, Bridget Johnson, Andrew & Katherine Ponka & Family, Rob and Jillian Roache

¯ Barbara A. Everts from David Everts

¯ Amy Gregory from Stella Walker and David & Nancy Walker

¯ Nancy Gugino from James L. Gugino

¯ Shaun Hamels from Allegheny Health Network

¯ Ruth B. Homes from Nelson and Ruth Horne

¯ Trenholm Jordan from Bahgat & Laurito-Bahgat, CPAs P.C., R. Peter and Carolyn Bills, Roberta and David Harley, Jekyll Island Men’s Golf Association, Arnold and Mariann Jordan, Lynne M. Vilardo, Bruce M. & Nancy A. Walker

¯ Judith Nash from Pricilla and John Cackener, Beverley and David Carr, Joan Mascaro Caruso, Susan and Brian Collins, Dr. Russell and Frances Elwell, Donald and Marion Eno, Marilyn and Norman Gollnitz, Wally and Joan Latimer, Stephanie Mazzeo-Caputo and Tim Caputo, James J. McMahon, Carolyn Rawlinson, Tracy and George Riedesel, Madeline Riscili, Carol A. Schaal, Roberta Vilardo, Nancy and Clark Young

¯ Edward ‘Bud’ Robbins from Louis C. Habig, Alan and Lisa Holbrook, Joseph M. and Diana M. Hughes, James J. McMahon, and Thomas W. McMahon

¯ Patricia L. Sandle from Marc Bernstein, Richard and Lorraine Buoncore, Betty Felton, Carol A. and Henry Link, Tracy and George Riedesel, David M. Rothzeid, Jim & Keri Smith Family Fund, Sandy and Jeff Wagner

¯ Betty Scholl from Noreen Casson, Donald and Marion Eno, Thomas Horsch, Adam C. Mostoller, James and Rose Van Volkenburg

¯ Betty Ward from Charlotte Calarco

¯ Agnes Winkleman from Charlotte Calarco, Rozanne and Richard Ellis, Donald and Marion Eno, Holly Hoffman, Lisa and Alan Holbrook, Betty and Raymond Lewis, Cindy and Rick Mathews, Janice and Joseph Russo

¯ Louise Young from Thomas W. McMahon

¯ In Honor and Memory of Past Masters of Summit Lodge 219 from Kathleen and Michael Ricketts

In Honor:

¯ Patricia Gaughan DiPalma from AAA of Western and Central New York

¯ George and Diana Holt from Donald & Marion Eno

¯ Dr. Russell Elwell from Ruth and Nelson Horne

Other ways to make a tribute gift include the following:

¯ By celebrating many of life’s wonderful occasions – the birth of a child, birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries or other important events.

¯ Saying thank you to someone who has made a difference in your life. Gifts may be made in honor of another that you wish to acknowledge or recognize for any reason, such as a friend, relative, neighbor, co-worker, pastor or caregiver.

¯ Honoring an essential healthcare worker during a once-every-100-years pandemic. Your gift will show the dedicated doctors and nurses and support staff that we deeply value the sacrifices they have made to save us. Sacrifices which will allow us to more safely, and with greater confidence, keep open our schools, and businesses and travel to loved ones.

Whether your gift commemorates an event, honors an individual or memorializes a friend or loved one, the individual or family named by the donor receives a special acknowledgment that a gift has been made in their name.

Our community hospital is able to continue to provide high quality health care to all the residents throughout our community and beyond. Westfield Memorial Hospital is part of the larger Saint Vincent Health System, a subsidiary member of the Allegheny Health Network.

For those who would like to learn more about the hospital foundation or to give a memorial gift or honorarium to the hospital foundation, contact Patty DiPalma at patricia.dipalma@ahn.org ; call: 793-2338 or visit the foundation’s website at: www.westfieldhospitalfoundation.org where you will find a memorial/honorarium form on the home page.