TRICKEY, YALLALY NAMED VETERANS HOME TOP VOLUNTEERS

Hundreds of volunteers were honored for their service to the 150 residents of the Cape Girardeau Missouri Veterans Home at the annual Volunteer Appreciation Night Dinner at the state-operated home on Friday, April 11. April is National Volunteer Month.

Euil Trickey and Barbara Yallaly were announced as man and woman "Volunteers of the Year" for their outstanding service to the Veterans Home. The selections were made by a large committee of volunteers with substantial hours of service.

Trickey is the Masonic Service Association Home Representative. His group provides around one-third of the annual volunteer hours at the home. Trickey has 3,976 volunteer hours at the facility.

Yallaly is American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Department of Missouri Home Representative. Her group also provides around one-third of the annual hours of service to the resident Veterans. Yallaly has 3,966 total volunteer hours.

Veterans Home volunteers deliver ice and water each morning, deliver mail in the afternoon, operate the canteen and information desk, assist with outings and in-house activities, make personal visits and help in many other ways.

The veterans served represent a total of nearly 1,000 years of active duty military service to America and participation in nearly 2,000 land, sea and air battles from World War I through Vietnam. Some are in the home as a result of wounds suffered in those battles.

Since the home opened in the spring of 1990, 141,519 volunteer hours have been served through December 31, 1996 at the Veterans Home. The first full year the home was open, 1991, 15,770 hours were served. The 1996 total was 24,666 hours.

Cape Veterans Home volunteers are awarded a pin with a 100-hour bar when they reach that number. New hour bars are awarded when additional 100 hour milestones are reached.

Four volunteers passed the 1,000 hour mark during 1996: Dorothy Scowden with 1,036 hours, Jim Tindall with 1,190 hours, Thelma Herrington with 1,217 hours and Naomi McClard with 1,321 hours. Their names have been engraved on the Thousand Hour Roll Call Plaque in the lobby of the home.

Agnes Bendel has the third highest number of total volunteer hours with 3,014. Vergie Templeton has 2,929 total hours through December 31, 1996 and Frieda Howard has 2,217 hours.

Volunteers with 1,000 to 2,000 hours include Lester Harris with 1,864, Hal Scowden with 1,642, Ralph Chitty with 1,535, James "Rex" Haynes with 1,508, Louis Birkman, Jr. with 1,496, Harry Humphrey with 1,371 and Chester Herrington with 1,291.

Volunteers with over 900 hours include Al Mason, Loren Shanks and Ray Ritchie.

With over 800 hours of service are Fern Schlimme, Al Schlenker, Betty G. Cato and Jim Foster.

Volunteers with over 700 hours are Jim Harnes, Ken Schreiner, Lois Woodford, Mildred Foster, Don Adams, John "Doc" Yallaly and Milton Nitsch.

Those over 600 hours include Dolly AuBuchon, Hugh LeDeure, Howard Spicer, Marie Spicer and Wilda Rudert.

With over 500 hours are Bob Harper, Geneva Schwartz, Rupert Fiehler, Shirley Welter, Lillian Birkman, Albert Elfrank, Laverne VanWeelden, H.K. Ken Carter and Ginger Beaudean.

Volunteers over 400 hours include Marie Sebastian, Paul Seabauagh, Jack Kinder, Evelyn Seabaugh, Fern Shultz, Tonya English, Bill Hasler, Steve Francis, Charles Woodford, Virginia Fenimore, Betty Henderson, Ann Hefele, Melvin Bacon and Doyle Mouser.

Those over the 300 hour milestone are Doris Criddle, George Jenkins, J.W. "Dick" Dobbs, Clem Crain, Vance Combs, Katherine King, Margaret Kracke, Bob McLemore, Virgil Elfrink, Barbara Slinkard, Fannie Gosche, Roy Rhodes, Francis Renard, Virginia Nance, Charles Shultz, Lloyd Zimmerman, Harold Makins and Gary Estes.

With over 200 hours are Glenneta Vogelsang, Homer Schnurbusch, Marie Brantley, Lou Maevers, Anne E. Brown, Rosalee Sides, Earl Statler, Jerry Dixon, Viola Cook, Millard Schlimme, Betty E. Cato, Ray Mashek, Helen Schnurbusch, Herb Nance, Bill Bollinger, Claude Estes, Norm Sebastian, Glen Bollinger, Raymond Rampley, Helen Trickey and Doyle Perr.

One hundred-plus hour volunteers are Bob Rosenquist, Paul Bell, Verna Lee Nitsch, Millie Bolick, Walter Haynie, Carol Hadley, Betty Myer, Mary Quade, Jess Hoppel, Delores Simmons, John Ferguson, Harold Nothdruft, Jack Cracraft, Viola Beal, Bonnie English, Ginny Jones, Bunny Smith, Ron Clark, Betty Rosenquist, Daisy Long, Jerry Stauber, Frank Cook, Dale Smith, Lavern Bangert, Roger English, Jake Spence, Dennis Bovey, Dale Wolfenkohler, Lynn Drury, Leola Essner, Jim Zimmerman, Tom Giles, Bud Miller, Bob Seabaugh, Meta Hunt, Marvin Campbell, Lawrence Meier, Betty Wiggins, Doris Meier, Ale Cato, Bill Holder, Hazel Elliott, Melvin Eggiman, Evelyn Estes and Pauline NitsCh.

Volunteers who started work during 1996 and served over 40 hours but less than 100 hours are: Burdetta Frazier, Rose Hughes, Larry Jackson, Edna Long, Caryn Michel, Ron Michel, Mary Mouser, George Points, Elmer Proctor, Mary Proctor, Mike Robertson, Alberta Sawyer, Bonnie Smith, Brenda Turner and Lawanda Wulfers.

Some resident Veterans perform volunteer duties such as serving on the Resident Council, tending bird feeders, helping set up for activities, assisting fellow Veterans to and from the dining room, etc.

Veterans Horace Woody Woods and Charles Lincoln have served over 800 hours, Bill Walker and Pete Jarrell over 700 hours, Jim McClard over 500, Harold Henderson over 400, Charles Clippard and John McFall over 200 hours.

Group Volunteers

Most all Cape Veterans Home volunteers are members of groups--Veterans and Patriotic groups in particular. Individual volunteers in the pin and bar recognition program are almost entirely people within those groups who serve at least three to five hours at least monthly and who are registered with the Volunteer Services Office. Others choose to just serve within their group, adding to their group's hours but do not seek individual recognition.

Groups which contribute substantial annual hours in service to residents include: Masonic Service Association with members from Lodges 93, 672, 417, 441, 590, 489, 440, 545 and 615 and Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 60.

American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Fourteenth District Units 63, 158, 389, 369 and Thirteenth District Unit 133; American Legion Fourteenth District Posts 63, 158 and Thirteenth District Post 133.

VFW Ladies Auxiliary Area Units contributing substantial hours of group service include 3838, 10495, 6407, 3174, 4282 and VFW Area Posts 3838, 10495, 3147 and 4282.

Other groups include DAV Chapter 16, Elks Lodge 639, Elks Lodge 2652, Joint Veterans Council, Telephone Pioneers, Zonta Club, VFW MOC/MOCA Pup Tent 5, Eastern District MOC/MOCA, Pet Pals, Area United Methodist Churches, St. Mary's Cathedral Parish, St. Vincent DePaul Parish, Jackson First Assembly of God Church, AMVETS Post 94/Sons/Auxiliary and the Missouri Army National Guard.