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Call the Volunteer Center of the United Way at (209) 524-1307 or email volunteer@uwaystan.org.
Lily Fern Weatherford began singing southern gospel music in the 1940s when she joined her husband, Earl, in his quartet in in Long Beach.
By the time the letter arrived, the grass on Benjamin Hawkes' grave had grown thick. Historians had chronicled how he transformed the Los Angeles archdiocese into a billion-dollar institution. His portrait had been etched into a metal plaque and bolted to the wall of a sprawling church on Wilshire Boulevard.
Call the Volunteer Center of the United Way at (209) 524-1307 or email volunteer@uwaystan.org.