Dec 15, 2020
Mary M. “Mickey” Welch had a plan. She has been gone for more than a year now, but that plan is just coming to fruition, and all of Wood County is the better for her efforts.
Welch’s $15 million bequest to the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation will become a permanent charitable fund, particularly serving those needs that were of most concern to her during her life.
“My mother loved her community. It was part of her family,” said Mary Anne Ketelsen, her daughter and fund adviser to the foundation. “She cared about improving life here for those most vulnerable children, youth, special needs individuals and animals. She liked helping organizations that help people to help themselves and that enable families to build a better life.”