Gold Star Wife Donna Grimsley, who lives in Rossville on the Walker County side, heads up the food packing assembly line.Last weekend, as some residents undoubtedly scrambled to pull together Christmas gifts for everyone on their list, members of the Magnolia Chapter Gold Star Wives of Chattanooga spent the afternoon packing food boxes for veterans and widows of veterans in need.
“Twenty families with 24 children including veterans and widows of veterans will be fed for a month and a half,” said President Flora Kernea.
Crosspath at East Ridge Baptist church hosted an assembly line of the Wives, a group of omen whose husbands died while serving in the U.S. armed forces or from service-connected disabilities. Sara Lee, MoonPie, Little Debbie, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, Food City, local funeral homes and individuals all donated items for the food boxes, Kernea said.
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