21 high school and college students and athletes receive scholarships
21 high school and college students and athletes receive scholarships
21 high school and college students and athletes receive scholarships
One family continues to take a horrible tragedy and turn it into helping others.
Friday afternoon, the Abbie DeLoach Foundation hosted its annual scholarship luncheon.
The event awarded scholarships to 21 high school and college students and athletes in honor of Abbie DeLoach, one of the five nursing students killed in a tragic car wreck on Interstate 16 in April 2015.
“I felt like instead of it being a period of darkness, that people could look at this and say, hey, we’ve got the foundation coming up,” Jimmy DeLoach Jr., president of the Abbie DeLoach Foundation, and also Abbie’s father, said. “We’re going to change people’s end game. We’re going to change their lives. And Abbie would have wanted that way.”
“It means a lot,” Trevon Locke, scholarship recipient and football player with Georgia Southern University, said. “It shows me that all the hard work that I’ve put in dedication from in the classroom to on the field is being rewarded. So I feel like it means a lot to me.”
The Abbie DeLoach Foundation has now awarded 127 total scholarships since it began in 2016. This year’s total of 21 represents its largest single year total yet.
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