Mom asks Goodfellows for help after undergoing surgery following car accident

Life has certainly thrown some challenges at Kelsey since she and her family moved back to the Metroplex. But she fights on, inspired by the love of her two little boys.

She was in a serious car accident and has been in out of the hospital with sepsis in her lungs. Also because of the accident, she had to have spinal surgery.

She’s also going through a divorce and was recently evicted from her home of two years.

“I have two little boys who only want to see mommy happy, and their smiles are what makes me happy,” Kelsey said. “But because of my surgery money is tight and I had to find somewhere for us to live. So money for Christmas is going to be even tighter.”

The Goodfellow Fund can’t help her recover any faster, but they can help bring those smiles she adores so much to her children’s faces. It’s what they do and have been doing since the early 1900s.

And this year is certainly no different. The Star-Telegram charity has a goal of helping 13,000 children in Tarrant County have a joyful Christmas by providing a $50 tax-free gift certificate for each child for new clothing from Old Navy.

About the Goodfellow Fund

The story on the Goodfellow 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 Goodfellow 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, or to learn more about helping, visit goodfellowfundfw.com. The post office box for donations and correspondence is P.O. Box 149, Fort Worth, TX. 76101.