#Donate wedding dress to angel babies in texas plus#

#Donate wedding dress to angel babies in texas plus#

At 80 plus years she joined the well-known “Krewe of SeaSaveYours” and participated in Gasparilla parades in Tampa and surrounding cities, events for fundraising for nonprofit causes, cruises, and a multitude of krewe related activities.

She then moved to Tampa to live with her daughter Kathy Grissom. She made many great friends and traveled with her family to San Carlos, Mexico many times. After the death of her husband, she moved to Ruidoso joining her daughter Linda Clark and husband Wesley Clark. She was blessed with many different joys in her life. After retirement she loved traveling with friends and family. Audrey was a member of the Eastern Star, Mt Franklin Rainbow for Girls, and served as mother advisor. In her spare time, she took up painting which she did up to just a few days before her passing. She loved to cook, was an excellent seamstress making all her daughters and neighbors wedding dresses. She was a homemaker and worked as a clerk in the El Paso Public School System. After she and Harold married and had 3 children, the family together joined St. After her husband completed his military tour during WWII, they moved to El Paso TX in 1945. Audrey married the love of her life James Harold Grissom on June 7,1942 in Texas City TX. She was a cheerleader at Mart High School where she met James Harold Grissom. As a child, her grandmother Hudson took her every Sunday to the Baptist Church in Mart, TX. Audrey was born on 8-7-1925 in Mart, TX to her parents Glenn V. Audrey lived a long and very happy life filled with a lot of love, fun, laughter, friendships, and life adventures that she treasured. Audrey Lee Eskew Grissom peacefully went to sleep surrounded by her loving family and a dear friend.

'We started it just to kind of see what would happen, and we've had very positive results,” she said.On Maheaven gained a beautiful angel. Oldakowski said the group hopes to get together several times a year to sew more gowns, and Pruin also will continue to sew them on her own. The group Saturday took apart five wedding dresses, sewed four angel gowns and cut out patterns for 14 gowns. 'I want to do anything to ease the pain of mothers and fathers who've lost babies because, obviously, I know how hard it is,” she said. She said the decision to part with her wedding dress was not a difficult one. 'Personally it would have been nice to receive something like this,” she said.Įrin Chalupa, who donated the project's 12th wedding gown Saturday, said she participates in multiple charities in honor of her son, who died at 18 months old. You will begin to receive our Daily News updates. Add your contacts.

She gave birth to a stillborn son 24 years ago and lost a premature granddaughter four years ago. One of the nurses, Jenny Zittergruen, said she too had a personal connection to the project. On Saturday, she had five other volunteers helping her - including Oldakowski and four nurses from the Birth Care Center. Pruin said part of her motivation was to honor her grandson, who was stillborn. The gowns are available to parents at the hospital for no charge. She has made more than 15 in various sizes and designs. Luke's project began in November, Pruin has been the sole volunteer making the gowns. 'This is a way to be able to have something very special that has been from a special day, and now it has been given for a special reason for a special purpose,” said Deb Oldakowski, maternal child education coordinator for the Birth Care Center. Luke's was not affiliated with the national program but was inspired by it. The national Angel Gown Program began in 2013 in Texas and now spans across the United States, Canada and Australia.