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6th Annual Float For Life

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Nov 3, 2009
 
This is part of my article from last year and the links are also last year's float. We are gearing up for another year. Check out the videos.

http://www.ky3.com/news/local/35621044.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Five years ago on Decem­ber 4th of 2004, three local men whose lives had been touched by Hos­pice of the Ozarks set out on a jour­ney. The jour­ney led them 418 miles down the White River from Bull Shoals Dam all the way to the Mis­sis­sippi River. They endured 5 days and 4 nights of freez­ing rain, snow, and bit­ter cold. Though weather con­di­tions were harsh, the date had spe­cial mean­ing to one man, Fred ‘Sonny’ Grue­ber. Hos­pice had made it pos­si­ble for Sonny to keep a promise to his wife, Sheila, that she might stay at home dur­ing her ill­ness. Sheila passed away Decem­ber 4th, 1998.
Ray Novak and Rob­bie Banasiak shared Sonny’s goal of rais­ing enough money to endow a room at Hos­pice House, which was then still in the plan­ning. Together their dream was real­ized with three more suc­cess­ful adven­tures for Hos­pice.

This year on Decem­ber 4th, the same three men will once again set forth on a jour­ney, but this time only two men will return. Sonny passed away last Christ­mas Day in peace at Hos­pice House in the room that his float spon­sored. Sonny, who had been a White River guide for over 17 years, was 70 years old. On this, his final jour­ney, his wish will be ful­filled. As he requested, his ashes will be spread into the Mis­sis­sippi and he will for­ever con­tinue his dream of the Float For Life.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch...

another Float For Life video
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