Donor Stories

Donor establishes Bill Hannon Foundation
Donor establishes Bill Hannon Foundation
He is retired from the District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation in Los Angeles; she is an attorney actively engaged in estate planning...
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A Donation Pays Tribute
A Donation Pays Tribute
In the last patient room as you pass the nurses' station, you can sit on the wide, comfy daybed by the window to watch and listen...
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A Gift for Appreciation of Physician
A Gift for Appreciation of Physician
Threatened by a blood clot in the lower aorta and paralyzed from the waist down, Melvin Young's life hung in the balance as he lay...
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Donors Give to Heart Program
Donors Give to Heart Program
A community inspired by legend and motivated by legacy, the Monterey Peninsula has a long-standing tradition of naming its achievements...
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Gift Pledged in Support of Tyler Heart Institute
Gift Pledged in Support of Tyler Heart Institute
In moving from Minnesota to the Monterey Peninsula three years ago, Mike...
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Scholarship Recipient Gives Back
Scholarship Recipient Gives Back
Charlie Whisler didn't lack direction; in fact, if anything, he had too many options. He can thank Community Hospital for setting...
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Charitable Remainder Trust Benefits Hospital
Charitable Remainder Trust Benefits Hospital
Their move from the Monterey Peninsula to Maui nearly 10 years ago had nothing to do with healthcare, but it's the whole reason...
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Olive Greenwald
Olive Greenwald
"I've been very grateful for the wonderful care the hospital has given us over the years. We are so very fortunate to have...
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Gonzales Prego
Gonzales Prego
"We donate to community hospital annually in memory of my parents and Andy's mother. Even during the four years we lived in Northeastern...
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Grateful Patient
Grateful Patient
"We started giving over 11 years ago in memory of a friend. Then, when Thomas had a stroke and went through rehabilitation ...
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The Importance of Estate Planning
The Importance of Estate Planning
Shary Alexa Farr has always known her life would be about death. Not focusing on death or fearing it, not about how it would happen...
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A Bequest to Further Good Work
A Bequest to Further Good Work
With a gift from the Dr. Frank Pye Smith Medical Facilities Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County...
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Marilyn and Harold "Hal" Kren
Marilyn and Harold "Hal" Kren
Marilyn Kren will never forget the poppies blooming on a canvas at Community Hospital. The prominent Ferdinand Bergdorf painting...
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Partners In Caring
Partners In Caring
As Herb Lister was getting ready for gallbladder surgery at Community Hospital, he asked the attendant wheeling him down...
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Hope Cappuccio
Hope Cappuccio
As Hope Cappuccio sat in the hospital room with her husband Santo, who had just suffered the first of three heart attacks...
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Dolores (Dee) Hagey
Dolores (Dee) Hagey
For Dolores (Dee) Hagey, moving from Chicago to Carmel in 1978 was an adjustment. Thanks to her husband Harry's suggestion...
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Gift Examples

The Retirement Unitrust
The Retirement Unitrust
Mary grew up on a farm. When her parents passed away, she inherited the farm. Now, several developers would like to build homes on the farmland.
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Part Gift and Part Sale
Part Gift and Part Sale
Susan and Kevin bought their first home many years ago. They had planned to build a second home so that their children could spend their summers along the lake.
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A Bequest to Save Taxes
A Bequest to Save Taxes
Thomas was a widower who had a great love for our organization. As an individual who had directly benefited from our work.
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