Empty Pantry Fund board members and other volunteers werenât quite sure what to expect Thursday when they arrived at the Tennessee Army National Guard Armory for a most untraditional day of packing food baskets. Would there be enough volunteers to pack more than 1,400 baskets? How would the new process, mandated by COVID-19 safety requirements, work?
They didnât have to worry. As EPF President Lon Fox said, âIt was a great day for the Empty Pantry Fund. In the middle of COVID, we didnât let it conquer us â we conquered it.â
Fox, along with EPF Secretary Morgan Hodson and Treasurer Tony Clark, worked the entire day, from before 9 a.m. when the first of three shifts of volunteers came to pack food baskets for less-fortunate Blount County residents until after 7 p.m. when packing was complete.
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Susie Atkins
Susie âSueâ Atkins, loving wife of 66 years, mother, and grandmother left this Earth to be with her Lord and Savior on December 15, 2020 at the age of 87. Sue always placed others before herself, she had a servantâs heart and spent her life serving and caring for others. Some of the joys of Sueâs life still flourish in her garden, as she spent many hours using her green thumb to cultivate beautiful roses and plants of many kinds. She enjoyed preserving her gardenâs bounty by canning foods and passing those skills on to her children and grandchildren. Sundayâs were a special day for Sue as there was always family in her living room to visit and enjoy a meal, she had lovingly prepared. Sue had a heart of gratitude and as she would always say âIâve been blessed ten times over.â Sue is preceded in death by her daughter, Linda Cooper. She is survived by her loving husband, Rudolph Atkins, retired from the University of Tennessee;
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