Thursday, April 19: Clayton Dabney would have been 23 years old this year, if he hadn’t lost his battle with cancer at the age of six in 1995. He never learned how to drive a car, went out on a date or graduated from high school. But his life inspired his parents Shelby and Scott Dabney and family friends. What an inspiration it was. Since the creation of the Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids with Cancer, more than $3 million has been distributed to nearly 1,900 families who are going through the devastation of having a child suffering the last stages of terminal cancer.
Sorry to be so brutal, but it is the reality of the situation that many families with children dying from cancer are also juggling colossal financial challenges with the emotional tidal waves of helplessness.
That’s why the annual “Kissed by an Angel” is vital to raise funds for the Foundation. This year’s Kissed by an Angel’s “Laissez le Bon Temps Rouler!” (translation: “Let the Good times Roll!”) will once again be held at a private home with “sumptuous foods, fabulous wines, divine shopping and catching up with friends.”
This year’s chairs, Michelle Johnson and Karen Clarke, have described the attire for the evening as “casually cool.”
BTW, it’s a girls’-night-out-event, so guys just let your main gal have your wallet and you can hide out in your man cave. . . or man closet.