In a bit of a repeat performance, P.E.O. Chapters L and AM, Iola and Humboldt, raised more than $1,700 to purchase a bassinet for Allen County Regional Hospital’s nursery.
Proceeds came from raffle tickets, sold for a $1 each, for an old-fashioned quilt. The winner was Kay Sallee, Bartlesville, Okla. Sallee is a friend of Patty Mathews, Bartlesville, who is mother of Iolan Gina Powe.
The quilt will weave its way to Oklahoma Saturday when Gina and husband Matt take their son to a Cub Scout Pinewood Derby race in Independence. Grandmother Mathews will come to watch, and pick up the quilt.
The two P.E.O. chapters raised $500 in 1952 when the original Allen County Hospital opened to furnish a patient home.
None of today’s members were involved in the first fundraising, but Iola Chapter L member Karen Gilpin said $500 then very likely would have furnished a room from top to bottom, given economics of those times.
The bassinet will cost about $1,500.
Quilt raffle aids hospital nursery
