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Giving: Welch s gift should be an example to all | News, Sports, Jobs

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.”

PACF receives a $15M bequest | News, Sports, Jobs

The Parkersburg Area Community Foundation has received a $15 million bequest from a late Parkersburg businesswoman. Calling her a “remarkable woman,” the major gift from the late Mary M. “Mickey” Welch, who died in August 2019, is the largest in the history of the 57-year-old foundation, said Judy Sjostedt Ritchie, executive director of the foundation. “It’s been said ‘Some people leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same, ” Sjostedt Ritchie said. “Mary M. “Mickey” Welch left footprints on the hearts of countless people throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley and elsewhere.” Welch was a successful owner of numerous businesses and was steadfast in her support of her community with “a boundless concern for others’ well-being,” Sjostedt Ritchie said.

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Parkersburg Area Community Foundation receives $15M bequest | News, Sports, Jobs

editorial@newsandsentinel.com PARKERSBURG The Parkersburg Area Community Foundation has received a $15 million bequest from a late Parkersburg businesswoman. Calling her a “remarkable woman,” the major gift from the late Mary M. “Mickey” Welch, who died in August 2019, is the largest in the history of the 57-year-old foundation, said Judy Sjostedt Ritchie, executive director of the foundation. “It’s been said ‘Some people leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same, ” Sjostedt Ritchie said. “Mary M. “Mickey” Welch left footprints on the hearts of countless people throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley and elsewhere.” Welch was a successful owner of numerous businesses and was steadfast in her support of her community with “a boundless concern for others’ well-being,” Sjostedt Ritchie said.

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