Family asks Goodfellows to help make holiday memorable for new addition
Recently, Tiana and her husband received a surprise addition to their family. Now, they are hoping for another surprise to help make the holidays more joyful for their two children.
“My husband and I have a 5-year old daughter and recently found out he had a 9-year old son from 2013 that the mom never told him about,” Tiana said. “The mom recently lost custody due to neglect and abuse & now we are caring for him. The loss of custody is how we were found, took a DNA test and it was 99.9%.
“It was a shocker to say the least, especially that we’ve been struggling to conceive.”
Goodfellows is there to help. The Star-Telegram charity has a goal of serving 12,000 children in need in Tarrant County and is doing so by once again providing a $50 tax-free gift certificate for each child for new trendy clothing from Old Navy Stores.
Tiana and her husband consider the addition a blessing, but like many of life’s surprises, it comes with some adjusting. They want to make his first Christmas with his new family a memorable one.
“It’s been tough and a huge transition for him as a child and our family,” she said. “This would help us greatly as we are in the biggest transition of our life.”
About Goodfellows
The story on the Goodfellows website describes its beginning as an offshoot of the first newspaper charity drive in the United States, started by the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 10, 1909. A Chicago city attorney wrote a letter challenging his friends to donate the money they would have spent on holiday partying to charity.
A couple years later, the Advertising Club of Fort Worth staged the first local Goodfellows campaign. On the day after Thanksgiving in 1912, Publisher Amon G. Carter brought the tradition to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
To find out more, visit goodfellowfundfw.com. The new post office box for donations and correspondence is P.O. Box 149, Fort Worth, TX. 76101.