
Intergenerational Mentors for Illinois
Ruth & Robert Winchell
| "My grandparents have improved the
lives of a number of people that they know from friends, strangers and
faimily members. Within in their younger years they improved and changed
my life, but as they are getting older they are helping their senior
citizen friends and my younger cousin, they basically became second
parents to my cousin. The biggest way that they have improved their
senior citizen friends' lives is when some of their senior friend's
husbands or wives die. My grandparents take the widowed in as spart
of the famil to comofrt them and help them with whatever needs to be
completed. They will go out of their way and take time out their lives
to make sure tha the widowed person is taken care of during this traumatic
event in their life.
Why am I nominating them for this award? Well they are the world to me. They hvae taken such good care of me and I think that they deserve something good to happen to them." -Bob Winchell |
![]() Ruth & Robert |