HER GIFT: NEW LIFf
By DON BOTH
ST. LOUIS Ten years ago
lire. Iterpld Westrich’s five-year
<f!fl daughter Sally W&ted a big,
pink doll for Christmas. But the
.Westrichs couldn’t Afford it.
Then Sally’s mother saw a doll
m a used furniture store. It was
n’t piftk and fu^y like Sally want
ed and in Mrs. Westrich’s own
words, “It was grubby."
But she bought the brokendown
-doll for 10 cents, took it home and
repaired it with paint and a set
of new clothes. Sally’s eyes spar
kled.
“When I saw how happy that
!Qeo f 'loll made Sally.” Mrs.
Westrich recalls, ‘J knew what I
wanted to do for children every
Christinas.”
For tie last decade, Mrs. West
rich, a busy homemaker, has spent
her spare time repairing dolls by
t£c thousands and distributing
them to needy children in the St.
Louis area.
The discarded and mutilated
dolls are fixed up in the base
ment of the Westrich home in
suburban Overland. Mrs. West
rich buys them out of her own
spending money—$3 a week.
She doesn’t want cast-offs from
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friends fpr she considers it a plea
sure to part with her own money
for the goo<f of the underprivi
leged.
She works alone, without aid
from her husband an<l two chil
dren. But they did buy her a jig
saw and band saw as Mother’s Day
gifts.
Strangely enough, Mrs. West
rich never sees the happiness that
fills the eyes of the needy chil
drn who rceive her dolls. For she’s
always out caroling with her chil
dren and their friends.
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CHASE & COPSEY
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May your heart be filled with the Joy of
Christmas... tree-trimming with the whole family
:... opening gifts Christmas morning ... a
thankful prayer before the family
dinner . . . may all these dreams come true
when we say, "Merry Christmas."
Loveis — Edith
John — Myron — Leslie
Sig and Betha
KODIAK MIRROR