Social Service Memorial Honor Fund (SSMHF)

Services are provided to those who are Homebound, Hospitalized or in Nursing Homes. Services take the form of phone calls, personal visits, greeting cards (6 or more times per year), and gifts in May and December. The local committee services every 90 year old and older member. On occasion, flowers may be sent to encourage members to feel better about themselves and their situation. In May and December, gifts are sent to confined members so they are not feeling abandoned, and will know that PASR and the local chapter cares about them.

Financial aid for state dues is available by local SSMHF chairs filling out a grant request for dues.

The local SSMHF Committee keeps track of deceased members to report quarterly to the PASR headquarters and their local officers. Once a year a necrology list is sent to PASR Headquarters. The local treasurer submits a report to PASR of all funds spent on confined members by the SSMHF committee.

The Venango PASR honors our deceased members at the Summer-Fall meeting.

Each year committee members provide:

• Flowers and plants for illness and hospitalization
• Thinking Of You Cards (Monthly)
• May "Month of Caring" gifts and visits
• Christmas Remembrance gifts and visits
• Memorials for deceased members

The Local Social Service Committee uses local funds to service non-confined members in a varity of ways.

• Sympathy cards are sent to those who have lost loved ones.
• Freda Thurau volunteers her time to make sure that every member of PASR Venango County receives a birthday card on their own birthday. Many thanks for her long-time dedication to ensuring every member’s birthday is special!
• Cards are sent and visits are made to members who are ill.
• The committee also makes call, visits individuals after surgery, and send notes of encouragement.
• Upon the death of a member, our treasurer makes a monetary donation to the SSMHF state fund and a card notifies the family that a contribution has been made to the fund in the name of the deceased.

WE NEED ALL MEMBERS TO HELP US!

If you know or hear of a Venango County PASR member who is hospitalized or has a serious illness, please notify one of the committee members immediately.

During PASR conventions, the basket auction raises money for the Memorial Honor Fund. Each county is asked to donate a basket with a value of at least $50. The district hosting the convention often ask their locals to donate more baskets if financially able. These baskets bring over $4000 for the Memorial Honor Fund each convention.

Retirement gives us time to relax and think. We have influenced many lives over our working career. It is also important that we continue to influence lives during our retirement. We must never stop giving, thanking, and sharing with others in our golden years! Please support the PASR Venango SSMHF committee at our local meetings.

Please consider making a contribution today to the Social Service Memorial Honor Fund in memory or in honor of someone you care about!

Click the SSMHF Form to print a copy and make a donation.

SSMHF Committee

Chair: dfes1@comcast.net Diana Fesenmyer

Helpers

Diana Jackson - Cranberry Area School District

Sandy Homer - Franklin Area School District

Dottie Valimont - Oil City Area School District

Vacant - Valley Grove Area School District -