The 2025 Richmond Christmas Mother program has reached a total of $90,483.41 in gifts from the community in the third week of the campaign. The Christmas Mother this year is Mary Jane Hogue.
In 2024, the Richmond Christmas Mother Fund received gifts totaling $377,319.42.
The Times-Dispatch follows its tradition of publishing the names of donors to the Richmond Christmas Mother Fund throughout the holiday season. Your generosity helps the fund support initiatives across the region to brighten the holiday season for thousands of your neighbors.
The Times-Dispatch has sponsored the Richmond Christmas Mother program, a yearly holiday fund drive, since 1935, some of those years in partnership with the former afternoon newspaper, The Richmond News Leader.
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Donations to the Richmond Christmas Mother Fund are fully tax-deductible. The program is a qualified 501©(3) organization. All operational costs are borne by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Visit go.richmond.com/christmasmother to give online or send contributions by mail to Richmond Christmas Mother Fund, P.O. Box 25864, Richmond, VA 23260. Checks should be made payable to Richmond Christmas Mother Fund.
Mary Jane Hogue, the 2025 Richmond Christmas Mother, and Aaron McClung, chief development officer of FeedMore, assist with distribution at a mobile food pantry at the Richmond City Sheriff's Office last weekend.
Donations are published in the Sunday and Wednesday editions of the newspaper through late January. Today’s listing covers contributions received between 5 p.m. Thursday and 10 p.m. on Monday.
Previously reported — $63,664.41
Today’s gifts — $26,819
Grand total — $90,483.41
Laura Lee and Ted Chandler, in honor of Hilda Moore Hankins, an awesome mother at 96 years old! We should all be so fortunate - $100
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Goodwin Jr., in honor of this year's Christmas Mother and all Christmas Mothers of the past - $3,000
Alicia and Matt Conrad - $1,000
Michelle and Brian Jenkins - $500
Lanny Gault, in memory of Suzanne Morris - $50
Anonymous - $25
Tim and Renee Sheehy, to our loving family - $300
Joanne McDonald, in honor of our Saint Gertrude classmate, Mary Jane, and in memory of Aimee Keith - $100
Art and Mary Ritter - $100
Natalie Testa - $50
Adrien and Rob Watson, in honor of Mary Jane Hogue - $100
Leslie Ross - $400
Fred and Mary Bruner, in memory of Will Selden and in honor of our friend, Mary Jane Hogue - $300
David and Lucy Trebour - $1,000
Ernie and Cathy Connon, in honor of Mary Jane Hogue, who has done so much for the RVA community and continues to do so! - $250
Richard and Carole Long - $500
Anne S. Lanier, in memory of Billy Hatfield - $500
Mary and Thomas, in loving memory of our dear Goggi and Papa, Libby and Frank Conner - $50
Nancy Gottwald - $6,000
Anonymous - $100
Paige Bartholomew, in honor of my aunt, Eleanor Bradford, who will be 100 in March - $100
Debra Larkin, in honor of my dear, dear friend, Mary Jane Hogue, and all she did for MedRVA Healthcare - $100
Suzanne Munson - $200
Franklin and Frances Aylor - $100
In loving memory of Michael Jarvis, from Mary and Thomas - $50
John and Jane Fain, in memory of missing family and in honor of our children and grandchildren - $250
Mary Carroll Flynn, in honor of the Bailey-Flynn family - $100
The Birthday Gang, for Julie Williams Layfield, in memory of a great girl. With love, from Margaret, Susan and Nancy - $100
Dan and Beth Bechard, in memory of our dear sister, Debi Bechard Brandt, who passed away in 2025. Love you and miss you! - $100
Susan Luck, in loving memory of my parents, Marion and Beattie Luck - $100
In loving memory of Garland Flippen, from Mary and Thomas - $50
David and Pattie Wohlert, in honor of our grandchildren, Carter, Quinn and Chloe - $150
Anne Gordon Cooke Curran, in heartfelt memory of family members who are missed in this life on Earth each day, in God's peace and the joy of Jesus' birth: Caroline M. and Richard S. Cooke, Susan W.L. Curran, Caroline Cooke Holland and Sarah C. Picton - $300
Barbara G. Trice, in memory of Frank and Mary Meade - $200
Jane Whitt Sellers, in honor of the alumnae of St. Margaret's School in Tappahannock - $300
Christine K. Plant, in loving memory of my parents and in honor of Mary Jane Hogue - $500
Bradfute W. Davenport Jr. - $1,000
Mike Royster, in memory of Elizabeth Royster - $100
In loving memory of Anne and Bob Burford, from Sally - $100
Anonymous - $500
Huguenot High School Class of 1970 - $2,571
Bland Sutton - $100
Leigh and Drew Gallalee - $500
Suzanne Pollard, in loving memory of Billy Preston and Fred Pollard - $300
Mary Denny Wray - $100
Karen W. Hojnowski - $100
Mr. and Mrs. Charley and Mo Bennett - $100
Gabie and Le Frazier, in loving memory of our parents, Herbert & Sarah Walker and Harry & Minnie Frazier - $100
Barry and Martha Crawford, in honor of our children and grandchildren - $100
Linda S. Slayton, in loving memory of my husband, Bill Slayton - $100
Anonymous - $250
Midge Lunsford, in loving memory of my husband, Dr. Carl Lunsford - $100
Ruth J. Hill - $500
Peter and Barbel Trenkner, in loving memory of our daughter, Michelle Hatchett, gone way too soon! - $100
Henry R. Gonner, in honor of Mary Jane Massad Hogue - $100
Anonymous - $100
Joanne T. Wiley, in honor of Mary Jane Hogue - $200
Reed and Scott Harrison - $423
Anonymous - $100
Nancy and Jeff Thomas - $50
Maria Randolph Brown, in honor of Mary and Phyllis - $500
Field & Robert Hite and Sara Dawes - $500
Jean and Robert Ritchie, in memory of our daughter. We miss you - $200
Gail and Alex Smith, in honor of Mary Jane Hogue - $100
Pam and John Strotmeyer, in memory of our son, Christian - $250
In loving memory of Michael Jarvis, from his family - $100
Susan H. Armstrong, in memory of my parents and grandparents - $100
Judy and Nathan Turbeville, in honor of Mary Jane Hogue - $100
