MEMORIAL FUND FOR KNITTERS
(including a knitting honor roll for recognizing living knitters)
provides knitting scholarships
The Knitting Guild Association Partners with Helping Hands Foundation, Inc.
to Provide Memorial and Honor Roll Opportunities, plus Scholarships for Knitters
The Knitting Guild Association and the Helping Hands Foundation, Inc. (HHF) are working together to provide a commemorative opportunity for friends and family to honor fellow knitters or memorialize a knitter or knitting related person. Anyone who knits or is a part of the knitting community or industry can contribute to the fund which benefits knitters by awarding scholarships for TKGA education.
Gifts specified for “The Knitting Guild Association Memorial Fund” must be made payable to “Helping Hands Foundation, Inc." and sent to HHF at 1100-H Brandywine Blvd., Zanesville, OH 43701-7303. HHF will serve as a repository for the fund. Donors should specify that their gifts are for “The Knitting Guild Association Memorial Fund” and should identify the name of the knitter to be honored or memorialized. All gifts are tax deductible under the 501(c)3 non-profit Helping Hands Foundation, the umbrella organization for Needle Arts Mentoring Programs(SM) across the country. Donors can learn more about the two partnering organizations online by visiting www.TKGA.com and www.NeedleArtsMentoring.org. To print out a TKGA Memorial Fund Donor Form to send with your check, click here.
The first gifts to the fund were made in 2007 by knitting designer Marlyn W. Ibele in remembrance of TKGA friends Virginia Dillon and Marjorie Hughes. Many names have been added since to the TKGA Memorial Fund Honor Roll and Remembrance Page by friends, family, local guild members and others (see below).
Donors can print and mail a form to send to the person or family of person to be memorialized
To send a note about your gift to the person or family of the person you are memorializing, click here.
If the person you are honoring is still living, tell them they have been added to the TKGA Honor Roll: click here.
Scholarship Applications
Knitters may apply for or be recommended to receive awards from the TKGA Memorial Fund. Click here to print out a Scholarship Application Form. Click here for basic information about Fund Awards. Scholarships are only awarded to TKGA members.
  
TKGA MEMORIAL REMEMBRANCE PAGE
Recorded here are the names of persons memorialized by donations to the TKGA Memorial Fund.
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Linda Chin
Mabel Lee Chin
Leanne Derr
Virginia Dillon
Phebe Ann Duerr Raab
Sidna Farley
Joyce Fox
Marjorie Hughes |
Thelma Imm
Patsy McCoy
Cindy Polfer
Witt Pratt
Betsy Shaw
Mary Ann Shmina
Judy Sumner
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Elizabeth (Libby) Way France
Mary Walker Phillips
Ruth W. Wells
Joyce Williams
Sandra Wing
Evelyn Wirtz
Elizabeth Zimmermann |
OTHERS HONORED BY A GIFT IN THEIR NAME
Donna Kaminsky
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO FUND DONORS
Mrs. Dale Bockman
Glenda and Paul Comeaux, Family of Ruth W. Wells
Maureen Doerner
Arenda Holladay
Mrs. Marlyn Ibele
Mrs. Janet Johnson Stephens
Mr. Joel Kaminsky
North Georgia Knitting Guild
Northcoast Knitting Guild, OH
Sarah J. Price
Mrs. Robert Scherphorn
Mr. John M. Shaw
Mrs. Dennis Terry
Western Reserve Knitting Guild, OH
Woolgatherers Knitting Guild, MI
SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
2008
Marguerite Laurence Bacon
Mary Humme
2009
Monique Dewey
LouAnn Mills
2010
Michelle Auker
Kathleen Eldredge
Mary K. Holton
Joan Partridge | |
Help TKGA provide education
to knitters.
The TKGA Memorial Scholarship Fund is one way you can honor a knitting friend or remember a beloved knitter AND
provide for others who also love the
art and fun of the craft.
Help knitters by providing a correspondence course or masters program level.
Or pay for a knitting class at Conference. |
Interested in Joining TKGA?
Check out our wonderful benefits listing!
Questions about TKGA or
the Memorial Fund?
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