VETERANS HOME RECOGNIZES VOLUNTEERS

The Missouri Veterans Home recognized nine people as volunteers of the year.

Those honored were Ginger Beaudean, Lillian Birkman, Naomi McClard, Fern Schlimme, Neal Edwards, James, "Rex" Haynes, Jim Harnes, Harry Humphrey and Jim Tindall.

Edwards was recognized for the hundreds of hours a year he puts in as chairman of the Veterans Day Memorial Benefit Golf Tournament.

This year's June 16 tournament is on a track that should put total net income at more than $60,000 for four years. Sponsorship donations to the tournament, unless otherwise designated, are placed in the perpetual trust fund.

Beaudean, Birkman, McClard, Schlimme, Haynes, Harnes and Tindall are regular weekly -- or more frequent -- volunteers doing work in the home.

Volunteers of the year are nominated by fellow volunteers with final selections made by the home's administrator and director of volunteer services.

Criteria considered for selection include volunteering at least 500 total hours with 100 hours in the past year, being congenial and cooperative, outstanding service over a long term or outstanding single service.

There are 224 registered individual volunteers working in the 150-bed, state-operated Missouri Veterans Home.Volunteers pass ice and water, deliver the mail, operate the canteen and information desk, assist with outings and in-house activities, make personal visits and help in many other ways.

Since the 1990 opening of the facility, 215,120 volunteer hours have been served through Dec. 31, 1999, with 24,186 hours served during 1999.

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

Two volunteers, Barbara Yallaly and Euil Trickey, have passed the 6,000 milestone.

Those with 5,000 to 2,000 hours are Agnes Bendel, Vergie Templeton, Frieda Howard, Louis Birkman Jr., Naomi McClard, Hal Scowden, Ralph Chitty, James "Rex" Haynes and Harry Humphry.

Volunteers with 1,999 to 1,000 hours include Jim Tindall, Lillian Birkman, Milton Nitsch, Chester Herrington, Don Adams, Shirley Welter, Jim Foster, Mildred Foster, Al Mason, Betty G. Cato, Jim Harnes, Dorothy Scowden, Fern Schlimme, Gladys Lawrence, Lois Woodford, Bob McLemore, Claude Estes, Lavern VanWeelden, Gary Estes and Al Schlenker.

Serving 999 to 500 hours are John "Doc" Yallaly, Ray Ritchie, Ginger Beaudean, Fern Shultz, Doyle Mouser, Bob Harper, Rupert Feihler, Marie Sebastian, Jewell Lincecum, Glenneta Vogelsang, H. K. "Ken" Carter, Lloyd Zimmerman, Jack Kinder, Charles Shultz, John Sonderman, Barbara Slinkard, Bill Hasler, Doris Criddle, Steve Francis, Charles Woodford, Margaret Kracke, Clem Crain and Joan Petzoldt.

Those with 499 to 300 hours include Virginia Nance, Harold Makins, Betty Hahs, Francis Renard, Roy Rhodes, Betty Myer, Virgil Elfrink, Marie Brantley, Homer Schnurbusch, Earl Statler, Leola Essner, Paul Bell, Bill Bollinger, Claire Campbell, John Gibbs, Norman Seabaugh, Bob Landgraf, Rosalee Sides, Verna Lee Nitsch, Millard Schlimme, Brenda Turner, J. C. Harrison, Ginny Jones, Glen Bollinger, Robert E. Young, Lawrence Meier, Doris Meier, Norman Sebastial and Shirley Porter.

Volunteers serving 299 to 200 hours include Fran Bohnert, Betty E. Cato, Jim Engelhart, Herb Nance, Dale Smith, Bunny Smith, Pat Renard, Lloyd Law, Betty Wiggins, Ron Clark, Charlotte Hecht, A. J. Seyer, Robert Eisenhouer, Jess Hoppel, Dodie Eisenhauer, Dora Mantel, Bonnie Smith, Dorothy Seabaugh, Bob Seabaugh, Jerry Stauber, Myrtle Allen, Pamela Davis, Lavern Bangert, Mary Proctor, John Ferguson, Melvin Eggiman, Burdetta Frazier, Brandy Totty and Norman Bollinger.

Those who have served 199-100 hours are Charlie Hutson, Paul Harris, Marvin Campbell, Gladys Siebert, Ted Blattel, Lawanda Verhines, Vera Trowbridge, Mary Mouser, Caryn Michel, Donna Dudley, Vesta Bollinger, Pauline Nitsch, Grace Willie, Burt Lehman, Mary Backfish, Dorothy Siebert, Cotton Meyer, Bob Phillips, Jim Baker, John Powers, Esther Devenport, Edna Peetz, Eddie Schreiner, Carlton Crain, Evelyn Ritche, Ron Michel, Joe Cullen, Lawanda Wulfers, Carolyn Schreiner, Betty Hoffmeister, Sandy Eichorn, Leonard Adams, Pat Rice, John Rice, Hazel Clippard, Frieda Smothers and Marjorie Grindstaff.

Several resident veterans are part of the volunteer corps, serving on the Resident Council, aiding other residents in several ways; and, in some cases, volunteers who were serving but became residents during the year.

Resident veteran volunteers are, starting with the largest number of hours, Bill Walker, Hugh LeDure, Horace Woods, Ken Schreiner, Harold Henderson, Melvin Bacon, Charles Clippard, Bud Miller and Matthew Slavon.