SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) – Some hard working high school and college students were awarded with scholarships this year from a local foundation.
The Abbie Deloach Foundation is named after a Savannah native. She was one of the Georgia Southern nurses who was killed in a crash by a distracted driver back in 2015.
Her father started the foundation to preserve his daughters legacy and celebrate all the things she loved.
Jimmy Deloach said, “It’s the character of each one of these recipients, that if I was to put them right here and I was standing Abbie right beside them, I would see the characteristics of compassion, understanding, dogmatic drive, willingness to take the back seat to lift somebody else up.”
The foundation says each of the recipient has demonstrated academic excellence, exemplary service work or athletic commitment.
This month is national districted driving month. The Abbie Deloach foundation encourages drivers to make a commitment to drive phone-free by taking the #HandsFreeForAbbie Pledge.
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