
James A. Reeder, Jr. and Eric Nevil are Honorees of the Laura Lee Blanton Community Spirit Award


Anne Baillio is Honoree of The Heart of Hospice Volunteer Award

Dr. Elizabeth Strauch is Honoree of The Heart of Hospice Service Award
Honorees embody James A. Reeder, Jr. & Eric Nevil, Dr. Elizabeth Strauch, and Anne Baillio
— Rana McClelland, President & CEO, Houston Hospice
HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, September 26, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Houston Hospice as we speak introduced that James A. Reeder, Jr. (Jim) and Eric Nevil shall be honored throughout its twenty fourth Laura Lee Blanton Community Spirit Award Dinner, Thursday, October 20, 2022, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at River Oaks Country Club, 1600 River Oaks Blvd., Houston, Texas. Funds raised assist Houston Hospice’s mission of offering high quality hospice care to sufferers of all ages, ethnicities, or socio-economic standing, irrespective of their means to pay.
“The Reeder family’s 40 years of support for Houston Hospice’s patients and families is truly admirable,” mentioned Co-Chair Jennifer Tuttle Arnold. “Jim and Eric continue the Reeder family’s legacy of generosity for Houston Hospice, and we are grateful to honor them with the Laura Lee Blanton Community Spirit Award” continued Arnold. Reeder and Nevil have a particular place of their hearts for Houston Hospice. Reeder’s late mom, Leone Guthrie Reeder, was an unique board member of the New Age Hospice in 1982 and continued on the board when it grew to become The Hospice on the Texas Medical Center. Reeder joined the board when his dad and mom moved to Washington, D.C. in 1992 and stayed on by its merger with Houston Hospice. Reeder was chair when the Houston Hospice Inpatient Unit was constructed, which benefitted from a main reward from Leone and Jim Reeder Sr. in reminiscence of every of their dad and mom. Reeder and Nevil have been then on the receiving finish of Houston Hospice’s care when first Leone handed away on the Inpatient Unit in 2010 after which Jim Sr. handed away on the Inpatient Unit 15 months later. By their instance, Jim Sr. & Leone taught their household a highly effective lesson on “dying well” and exemplified their perception that dwelling doesn’t finish on the prospect of demise.
“We are reluctant recipients of the Laura Lee Blanton Community Spirit Award,” Nevil defined. “Reluctant because we have never felt that what we do and contribute is extraordinary; it’s just what you do. And because we know that over the past 40 years, there are countless others who, through their commitment and generosity, like the Blanton family, are the true manifestation of community spirit that sustains Houston Hospice,” continued Nevil.
In addition, Houston Hospice will honor two distinctive leaders with over 64 years of service mixed to present compassionate care and luxury to numerous households and their family members. Houston Hospice is proud to honor Dr. Elizabeth Strauch, Medical Director & Vice President of Medical Affairs, Houston Hospice with The Heart of Hospice Service Award for offering high quality care to hospice sufferers and households over the previous 30 years. Anne Baillio, longtime volunteer, shall be introduced with The Heart of Hospice Volunteer Award for offering compassionate care to sufferers and their households over the previous 34 years.
“We are deeply honored to be the recipients of this award,” Reeder provides. “Eric and I believe that the caregivers at Houston Hospice, like Betsy Strauch and Anne Baillio, are living saints. To be recognized with them, my parents, and the Blanton family is humbling. The great reward for us, however, has been our experience as just one of the tens of thousands of families to whom Houston Hospice has brought care and comfort during the most difficult chapter of life care.”
“The 24th Spirit Award Dinner honors Jim Reeder, Eric Nevil, Dr. Elizabeth Strauch, and Anne Baillio, four remarkable community leaders who embody the spirit and compassion of Houston Hospice,” mentioned Rana McClelland, President & CEO, Houston Hospice. “Houston Hospice is humbled by their 100+ years of collective dedication to helping patients and their families gain access to uncompromising, compassionate, end-of-life care,” continued McClelland.
Jennifer Tuttle Arnold, Susan Tuttle Lummis, and Emily Tuttle Wilde are this 12 months’s occasion chairs and are planning a great night in celebration of Jim Reeder and Eric Nevil, Dr. Elizabeth Strauch and Ann Baillio.
The Spirit Award is called in reminiscence of Laura Lee Blanton, who gave tirelessly and had a selfless dedication to her household, to her neighborhood, and to her mates. For extra info, please go to www.houstonhospice.org/spiritaward2022/.
About Houston Hospice:
Houston Hospice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group that gives uncompromising, compassionate, end-of-life care to all sufferers and households throughout 13 counties within the Greater Houston Area, regardless of their means to pay. Established in 1980, the group is the oldest, largest, unbiased, nonprofit hospice in Houston and a member of the Texas Medical Center.
About James A. Reeder, Jr. (Jim) and Eric Nevil:
Jim Reeder & Eric Nevil have been lively and beneficiant contributors to a selection of worthwhile neighborhood assets within the Houston space throughout their almost twenty years collectively. Jim was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, attended Harvard College and the University of Texas School of Law, and has been working towards regulation in Houston since 1989, first at Vinson & Elkins for 30 years, and extra lately at Jones Day since 2019. Jim was the Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, the biggest group of litigators within the nation, in 2020-21. Eric is a native of Harris County, graduated from the University of Texas and spent 17 years as a civil engineer at AECOM and its predecessors Turner Collie & Braden and Thompson Engineering and has been concerned within the planning of a lot of the storm water infrastructure addressing flooding throughout Houston and Harris County. For the final decade, Eric has been head of operations at two inside design corporations, Ken Kehoe & Company and Kehoe Nevil Wilson Design Consultants. Jim & Eric are dad and mom to two kids: Grace, who graduated from Smith College and is in her third 12 months of medical faculty on the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; and Jack, who graduated from the University of Texas in May and is pursuing his Master of Science in Finance on the McCombs School at UT.
Among the organizations which have been the article of Jim & Eric’s targeted consideration and generosity are: Legacy Community Health Services, the place Jim chaired the board and its capital marketing campaign and the place Jim & Eric have been main contributors to the transformation of Legacy from a single clinic in Montrose to an array of clinics throughout the Gulf Coast; Houston Botanic Garden, the place Jim chairs the board, and Jim & Eric have been main contributors to the capital marketing campaign that constructed the backyard; San Jacinto Museum of History Association; C.G. Jung Educational Center; Houston Public Television (the place Jim spent twenty 5 years as an on air host of Channel 8’s quarterly pledge drive); Teach for America and quite a few others.
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