A long-time, non-profit society in Williams Lake aimed at providing cancer detection equipment for the hospital is calling it quits.
With only seven volunteers left whose average age is 78, Hough Memorial Cancer Fund Society members are pulling the plug on the society which has raised upwards of $3 million for early cancer detection equipment for Cariboo Memorial Hospital.
The society was founded in 1972 by Lillian Hough in memory of her husband, Bill, who died from undetected brain cancer.
Hough volunteer Mary Telfer told the Tribune the small number of volunteers who remain cannot do the fundraising required to purchase the equipment and fears more residents will have to be sent out-of-town for early cancer detection.
The last members of the society include Noel Donnelly, Cathy Passeri, Mary Jane Engstrom, Audrey Hyde, Lynn Roberts, Maggie Jacobson and Telfer.
“Our remaining funds will be used to purchase scopes, recliner and lifting chairs for ambulatory care and hospice society. We, as a team, wish to thank deeply those people who have donated generously over the past fifty two years.”
