When Gertrude Dupuis began sewing her last quilt in Midland, Mich., she didn’t know that it would be completed by a group named the Leisure Day Quilters and used to benefit hospice patients like herself in Pasco County.
The Leisure Days Quilters finished this quilt started by Gertrude Dupuis before she passed away under hospice care. The quilt is now being awarded in a drawing with all proceeds benefiting Gulfside Regional Hospice.(Courtesy of Regional Gulfside Hospice)
Dupuis was an avid quilter and loved her hobby. When she passed away on Feb. 18, 2013 under hospice care in Michigan, her daughter, Marilyn Rindle, knew she could not leave her mother’s last piece unfinished.
Rindle gave the unfinished quilt to Donna Agle, a volunteer for Gulfside Regional Hospice and a member of the Leisure Day Quilters. Agle brought the pieces to the quilters, and they completed the hand-pieced quilt as a group project.
The quilt, appraised at $2,300, is now being awarded in a drawing with all proceeds benefiting Gulfside Regional Hospice, at Rindle’s request.
“Marilyn thinks the world of what hospice did for her family,” said Agle.
She is 100 percent behind hospice and what they did for her mother while she was in her last days.”
Tickets for the drawing are available now for a donation of $2 per single ticket, or $5 for three tickets. The drawing will be on Feb. 8 at 9 a.m., at the Leisure Days Quilt Show, 34533 Leisure Days Drive in Zephyrhills. Contestants do not need to be present to win.
Tickets can be purchased at Gulfside’s administrative office, 6117 Trouble Creek Road in New Port Richey; Gulfside Center for Hospice Care, 5760 Dean Dairy Road in Zephyrhills; and each of Gulfside’s five thrift shop locations.
For more information about the quilt or tickets, call Erin Cleary at (727) 845-5707, or email .
