Lung Health News, Fall 2004 / Winter 2005
Alexandria Hockenbeamer was born in 1904, the same year the American Lung Association was founded. So it is fitting that the 100-year-old donor is launching the American Lung Association of the East Bay’s Century Partners campaign, one of many campaigns being conducted by local American Lung Associations around the state encouraging donors to pledge $100 in honor of the 100-year anniversary.
Hockenbeamer has been contributing to the American Lung Association for longer than she can remember because the association’s mission hit home for her and husband Embree, who was a smoker. He developed emphysema and spent his last four years on oxygen before his death in 1975. During that time, the American Lung Association of the East Bay provided support, loaning him oxygen tanks and ventilators.
Thanks to donors like Hockenbeamer, the American Lung Association is looking forward to another century of preventing lung disease and reducing the suffering for those who already have it.
For more about centennial campaigns in your area or information about including the American Lung Association in your will or trust, call your local association at 1.800.LUNG.USA or visit www.californialung.org.
