- November 2023
Save the Date! – April 13, 2024
Mark your calendar NOW so you don’t miss our 21ST Anniversary Gala Event and
Fundraiser dinner on Saturday, April 13, 2024.
We are excited to be planning this event and hope you will be able to
participate in the fun.
We have again reserved the beautiful Palos Country Club to
host our event. We’re planning a
delicious dinner, great entertainment, and an amazing array of raffle prizes. Our slightly shortened format last year was
popular, so we will repeat that.
Cocktails will be from 6:00 to 6:45 pm, dinner 6:45 to 7:45, dancing
from 8 to about 9:15 and raffle drawings beginning at 9:15. This should let us
conclude the evening by approximately 10 pm.
Music will be provided by Joe & Aileen, the fantastic
DJs who have entertained us before.
Feel free to invite your family and friends (adults
only). If you have attended previously,
please come back. If you have never
attended, or haven’t attended in a while, this is a great opportunity to enjoy
a fun evening out while supporting a very worthy cause.
For more information, or to add someone to the invite list,
just email us at [email protected].
We hope to see you in April.
Giving Tuesday
November 28 is
Giving Tuesday, an annual global celebration that follows Black Friday and
Cyber Monday. The intent of the event is
to shift the focus during the holidays to giving back.
We appreciate
our loyal supporters and hesitate to ask for more help. However, if you participate in Giving
Tuesday, we hope that you will consider making a donation to the Gene Roman
Foundation. This has been our busiest
year ever and we are trying to stretch our funds to help as many people as
possible. We have helped so many people
we don’t even have room to list them all in this newsletter! As of this printing, we have assisted 120
individual cancer patients, from age 9 to age 99, since the beginning of the
year.
However you
chose to support us, through your donations and through your prayers, we
definitely appreciate it. May God bless
you during these seasons of Thanksgiving and celebrating our Savior’s birth.
Your Donations
Since our May newsletter, we have:
- Helped with rent for a 60-year-old man with testicular cancer
- Paid health insurance premium for a 53-year-old woman with breast cancer
- Helped with rent for a 43-year-old woman with lymphoma
- Paid a car payment for a 27-year-old woman with breast cancer
- Paid utilities for a 62-year-old woman with uterine cancer
- Helped with rent for a 36-year-old single mother with leukemia
- Helped with rent for a 50-year-old man with B Cell lymphoma
- Helped with rent for a 64-year-old man with bladder cancer
- Paid car payment for a 48-year-old man with CLL
- Paid utilities for a 63-year-old man with liver cancer
- Helped with mortgage for a 66-year-old woman with myelodysplastic syndrome
- Paid utilities for a 32-year-old single father with sarcoma
- Paid car insurance and phone bill for a 58-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer
- Paid phone bill for a 66-year-old woman with myelodysplastic syndrome
- Paid car payment for a 51-year-old man with multiple myeloma
- Helped with rent for a 50-year-old woman with AML
- Paid gas and electric bills for a 55-year-old woman with breast cancer
- Helped with rent for a 54-year-old woman with breast cancer
- Helped with rent for a 45-year-old woman with lymphoma
- Helped with child care costs for a 43-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer
- Helped with transportation costs for a 59-year-old man with CML
- Paid gas and electric bills for a 30-year-old woman with ALL
- Helped with rent for a 44-year-old woman with Stage IV breast cancer
- Helped with rent for a 67-year-old woman with multiple myeloma
- Paid gas and electric bills for a 52-year-old woman with breast cancer
- Paid utilities for a 60-year-old woman with endometrial cancer
- Paid electric bill and transportation costs for a 32-year-old single mother with cervical cancer
- Helped with rent for a 62-year-old woman with endometrial cancer
- Paid utilities for a 62-year-old man with gastric cancer
- Helped with rent for a 52-year-old man with multiple myeloma
- Helped with security deposit for a 68-year-old woman with breast cancer
- Helped with rent for a 53-year-old man with brain cancer
- Paid car insurance and phone bill for an 80-year-old man with lung cancer
- Helped with transportation for a 63-year-old woman with breast cancer
- Helped with rent for a 58-year-old man with thyroid cancer
- Helped with groceries for a 61-year-old woman with lymphoma
- Helped with transportation for a 77-year-old woman with lung cancer
- Helped with groceries for a 63-year-old man with prostate cancer
- Paid gas bill for a 99-year-old man with throat cancer
- Helped with groceries for a 55-year-old man with prostate cancer
- Helped with rent for a 34-year-old single mother with gastric cancer
- Paid gas and electric bills for a 47-year-old single father with multiple myeloma
- Helped with groceries for a 73-year-old man with lung cancer
- Helped with transportation for a 52-year-old woman with lymphoma
- Helped with rent for a 31-year-old woman with duodenal adenocarcinoma
- Helped with transportation for a 41-year-old woman with AML
- Paid for glasses for a 56-year-old man with lung cancer
- Paid gas bill for a 61-year-old man with colorectal cancer
- Paid gas and electric bills for a 53-year-old man with prostate cancer
- Paid utilities for a 37-year-old single mom with breast cancer
- Helped with transportation for a 30-year-old man with B Cell Lymphoma
- Helped with transportation for a 69-year-old man with Stage IV stomach cancer
- Helped with rent for a 40-year-old single mother with breast cancer
- Paid gas bill for a 54-year-old woman with lung cancer
- Paid electric bill for a 42-year-old woman with uterine cancer
- Paid utilities and groceries for a 72-year-old man with brain cancer
- Paid utilities for a 60-year-old woman with leukemia
- Paid health insurance premium for a 59-year-old woman with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- Helped with groceries for a 45-year-old woman with rectal cancer
- Paid electric bill for the family of a 9-year-old boy with ALL
- Helped with rent for a 75-year-old man with AML
- Paid electric bill for a 21-year-old man with lymphoma
- Helped with groceries for a 39-year-old man with Non-Hodgkin’s B Cell Lymphoma
- Helped with rent for a 39-year-old woman with AML
- Paid utilities for a 44-year-old woman with breast cancer
- Helped with rent for a 50-year-old woman with lung cancer
- Paid utilities for a 57-year-old man with sinus cancer
- Paid for Ensure for a 69-year-old woman with lung cancer
- Helped with rent for a 37-year-old single mother with breast cancer
- Paid cell phone and groceries for a 36-year-old man with anal cancer
- Helped with transportation for a 19-year-old man with ALL
- Paid utilities for a 55-year-old woman with lung cancer
- Paid gas bill for a 63-year-old woman with renal cancer
- Helped with transportation for a 74-year-old man with AML
- Helped with groceries for a 61-year-old woman with endometrial cancer
- Paid utilities for a 63-year-old woman with rectal cancer
- Paid electric bill for a 57-year-old woman with uterine cancer
- Paid electric bill and OTC meds for a 63-year-old woman with anal cancer
- Paid water bill for a 53-year-old woman with bladder cancer
- AND MORE!
In Memory, In Honor
We have received donations:
In loving memory of Gene Roman, from Susan & Jeff Phillips
In loving memory of Konstantinos Gountounas, from Sandy & Jimmy Wolframski
In loving memory of Don Kaminsky, from Sandy & Jimmy Wolframski
In loving memory of Carrie Morgan, from Donna Ford
In loving memory of Tommy Schuman, from Sandy & Jimmy Wolframski
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Jane & John Kurecki
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Sandie & Al Peccia
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Cindy & Jay Hill
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Lisa & Rob Slovin
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Angela & Mike Isbell
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Julie Slauterbeck
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Michele Roman
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Abercrombie & Kent USA
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Janice & Thomas Barr
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Pheasant Lakes Townhome Association
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Lenore Wiencek
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Judy & Tom White
In loving memory of Len Wiencek, from Karen Roman
In honor of Sandie Peccia’s 75th birthday, from Maria & Mike Peccia