National Grand Parents

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