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Serving Others is our Mission

06 Thursday Nov 2014

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Watch for our wicker baskets and smiling Knights

Watch for our wicker baskets and smiling Knights

On Veterans Day weekend, we honor our veterans.  There is a special group of living veterans now in military hospitals.  They are  hospitalized amputees at nearby Camp Lejeune and Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

These men and women are now undergoing treatment and rehabilitation for their war injuries and they will be there over the Christmas holiday period.  Most do not have funds to travel to their homes for the holidays.  Our mission is to help send them home to be with their families.

Knights at St. Thomas More Church will collect donations after each mass on Saturday, November 8th and Sunday, November 9th. Please be generous.

The Desoto Province Knights are from our churches in North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico.  All donations are tax deductible.  Make your checks payable to the Military Order of the Purple Heart.  Add a notation that the check is for the Wounded Warriors Amputee Project.  The Military Order of the Purple Heart will provide you with a card of thanks and receipt for your gift.

Robert Singer

Robert Singer

Postscript.  This project of the North Carolina Knights of Columbus was started by Robert “Bob” Singer, Past State Deputy, North Carolina Knights of Columbus.  You can read about what he did and how important it is.  Visit ABC 11 Eyewitness News for an Armed Forces Salute: Singer Family

For assistance in making a corporate, business or personal donation, contact Sir Knight Lee Heavlin, Project Chair.

Edelen Funeral Set

20 Friday Dec 2013

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Tom Edelen

Tom Edelen

We have lost a long time member of the assembly, John Thomas “Tom” Edelen, Sr. , age 93, of Chapel Hill, passed away peacefully on December 18, 2013. Tom was not only a strong advocate for the Knights, but a deeply religious man who loved the Rosary and made it his mission to repair the many rosaries of parishioners at no cost.  Read story

He was a World War II Navy veteran, who served in the South Pacific.  He was passionate about his country and an avid volunteer for the Republican party. He was also a founding member of the Durham chapter of SCORE, a nonprofit association dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow and achieve their goals through education and mentorship. He was an Honorable Elder of Kiwanis and a volunteer at the Eno River Association; instrumental in the re-building of the Mill at West Point on the Eno.

Tom was an active member of St.Thomas More Church and the Knights of Columbus. He loved to tell stories, especially if he could make you laugh; he knew no strangers.

A funeral mass will be held at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Chapel Hill, on Saturday, Dec 21, 2013, at 11:00 am.  Tom’s inurnment will be at he church columbariun immediately following the mass.

Military funeral honors will accompany the inurnment and all council and assembly knights are encouraged to attend.  Fourth Degree Knights will form for honors in social regalia (tuxedo and gold name badges).  Knights are asked to be at the church by 10:30 am.

We salute Tom Edelen as a Knight in Shining Armor for his faith, his church, and his community.