The 2024 Richmond Christmas Mother program has reached a total of $298,738.42. The Christmas Mother this year is Dr. Lydia Jones Johnson.
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.
In 2023, the program raised more than $358,000.
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.
Donations are published in the Sunday and Wednesday editions of The Times-Dispatch and on Richmond.com. The Wednesday list contains donations received through noon on Tuesday; the Sunday list contains donations received through noon on Friday, except for those that included a request for publication on a future date.
Because there will be no printed paper on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1, Christmas Mother donations will be published in the Sunday and Tuesday papers for those two weeks.
Donations will be accepted and published through the end of January.
Previously reported — $269,273.42
Today’s gifts — $29,465
Grand total — $298,738.42
Cindy and Robin Russo, Merry Christmas to our family and friends — $1,000
Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia — $2,500
Crystal McEachin Crawley, in memory of Lillian Holloman — $100
Martha and Jay Moore, in memory of Chris Cottrell — $50
In memory of Jacqueline F. Herod, a former Richmond Christmas Mother, and Jack N. Herod — $100
Doris Ann, Joe, Brittany and Katie, in memory of our beloved parents and grandparents — Margaret and Paul Rock and Maurice and Edith Kane. Christmas memories with you will forever be in our hearts — $100
Anne and Mac McElroy, in honor of the Alcorns, Austins, Daniels, Kemps and McDowells — $200
Kaci Easley, in memory of Malchi and Iona Adkins — $100
In memory of Cynthia Liebert Crowder, a/k/a Cindy, Sin, sis, Nana, Beaver. Missing you this Christmas, Love you, from Chase, Elizabeth, Huckelberry, Eazy and Mike — $500
In memory of dad, John Nordstrom “Buddy” Crowder, and happy birthday and in honor of mom, Laura Barbara Elizabeth Jensen Crowder. Missing dad and you. Love you both, from Mike — $200
Raymond and Charlene Cousins — $100
Elizabeth and Jay Jennings, in loving memory of Anne and Jack Jennings — $250
The Collegiate Football Chain Gang, in memory of Grover and Anne Jones, Charlie McFall, Jimmie Massie, David Murphy and Jay DeVoe — $500
Nancy Nietman and Dawn Field, in honor and in memory of our good friend, Kat Simons. Thanks so much for everything you did for the Richmond nonprofit community for the past 25 years! Richmond radio is not the same without you, my friend — $25
Stuart, in honor of my godchildren, Grace, Lily and Rob — $150
Anne and Kathryn, in honor of our mother, Anne Kenny, with gratitude for many years of making our family Christmases so special — $100
Graham, Jackson, Sadie, Lily and Amelia, in memory of John C. Kenny — $100
Boys Christmas Dinner, in honor of the Christmas Mother — $200
Sherrill and Joey Smith, in loving memory of our mothers, Virginia and Inez, and our godson, Brandon — $500
Nancy and Joe, in memory of our parents Tom, Liz, Gordon and Reggie. — $200
Ken and Lauren Hutcheson, in memory of William “Bill” Michael Ginther — $1,000
Jill and Monroe Harris, in recognition of the Richmond Christmas Mother, Dr. Lydia Johnson — $2,500
Elizabeth and Tom Allen, in honor of the Christmas Mother and our grandchildren — $500
Cosmos (Colette Wallace McEachin), in memory of A. Donald McEachin — $100
Margaret and Sarge Reynolds — $200
Teelo and Mary Anne Rutledge, in honor of Dr. Lydia Johnson. Working with her was an honor — $50
In memory of Mary McDearmon Sears — $250
Leslie and Grant Grayson — $100
In memory of David R. Holton — $250
In memory of Elaine McDearmon Spencer — $250
Donna and Jeff Cole, in memory of our son, Randy Clark Fulmer II, and in honor of our son, Nathaniel Philip Cole — $200
Donna and Jeff Cole, in memory of Donna’s father, Domenic DiMasi Sr., and her brother, Ralph DiMasi — $200
Thomas H. and Frances F. Scales, in loving memory of our children, Eleanor S. Dunigan, Thomas H. Scales III and son-in-law, James W. Dale, and for the love of our daughter, Caroline S. Dale — $100
Steven Schwartz, to the memory of Ruth Lorina Allmann — $50
Melinda W. Davis — $200
Pearl Liggins — $250
Towanda Book Club, in loving memory of Cheryl Guedri, book picker extraordinaire — $1,000
In memory and honor of our mothers, Virginia Burns and Nancy Campbell — $500
Chris Booker-Carlisle — $10
Susan Parsons and John Parsons, in memory of Buford Parsons and David Parsons — $100
Jim and Nancy Johnson, in memory of a special guy, Lewis Farmer — $1,000
Gregory and Deborah Hillman, in honor of Dr. Lydia Johnson — $500
David and Linda Carlson — $100
Missy and Thomas Goode, in memory of Frances Goode and Buck Paul — $100
In honor of the employees of Davenport Asset Management — $1,000
Arnold and Andrea Henderson, in honor of the 2024 Christmas Mother, Dr. Lydia Johnson — $250
Pam and John Strotmeyer, in memory of our son, Christian L. Strotmeyer — $250
Ron and Meg Carey — $500
In loving memory of Sazshy and Bolling, and Goobie and Skeeter — $500
Anonymous — $5
In loving memory of our parents, Bill and Maureen Gregory, on their favorite holiday, from Beth, Laura and Jennifer — $300
In memory of our friend Allen West, from Thomas, Daniel, Clarke, Ted and Mark — $250
In memory of Bill Clarke, with love from AP, Teddy and family — $250
In memory of Henry L. Valentine, with love from Annie P — $250
In honor of the 2024 Richmond Christmas Mother, Lydia Johnson — $1,000
In loving memory of Bruce C. Gottwald Jr. — $1,000
In memory of our great-grandparents, Helen and Thomas Hays and Anne and Dewey Gottwald; and our grandparents, Frances and Haywood Hyman — $1,000
In honor of our grandparents, Nancy and Bruce Gottwald — $1,000
Gwen and Alan Davis, in loving memory of our parents, Chris and Bill Williams — $200
Metropolitan Health Foundation Inc., to assist in the Christmas Mother’s good works — $1,000
Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Robertson III — $250
In loving memory of my parents and sister, Jimmy, Fleetwood and Peg O’Connor, from Kitten — $50
In memory of Ellen and James W. Hofstead, and Florence and Robert W. Cabaniss — $250
In memory of William V. Cabaniss, Richard J. Cabaniss, Austin Tucker, Carol Battista and Duck Horne — $250
In honor of Ellen Katherine, Robert Warner and Emerie Hofstead — $250
From the gangsters, in memory of the Gangsters who are no longer with us: Bobby McGhee, Jack Lewis, Willard Andrews, Garland Flippen, Otto Williams, Don Whitley, Ty Whitley, Huntley Davenport, Porgy Moncure, Gil Minor, Henry Spaulding, Johnny Siewers and Frank VanRichter — $1,000
In memory of our Pop, Harvey S. Hicks III, from Michael, Timothy and Jonathan — $100
In loving memory of my friend Robbie Runion, from Kitten — $50
In loving memory of Chuck “Papa” Harrigan, from Marcia, Drew, Brenna, Katie, Trip, Annalee and Charlie — $100
Page Bauder, in memory of Betty Bauder, 1998 Christmas Mother — $100
In loving memory of our parents, Virginia and Albert E. Zehringer Sr., from Bert, Ellen, Jean and Joyce — $100
Richmond Wing’D Riders, Chapter VA-D — $25
In memory of William Hunter Goodwin III, from Buddy — $100
Minor and Katherine Weisiger, in memory of loved ones — $100
Rennie M. McAllister, in memory of my dear friend, Bettie Terrell Dalton Hobson — $400
In honor of Kate, Vivi and Rollin; and in memory of Eddie, a hero to many — $150
Richmond-Henrico Retired Teachers Association, District Q of the Virginia Retired Teachers Association, hoping that others will join us to generously lend their support to the Christmas Mother’s cause — $100
Kirsten and David Bradley, in honor of this year’s Christmas Mother and all those we have known from past years — $250
Liz and Doug Warren, in memory of our parents, Jean and Wade Warren and Wiley Lawrence — $200
Craig and Janis Akers — $50
Anita Grymes Towell, in memory of Harry Brower Grymes and Richard Leigh Towell — $100
Rosalind L. Norton, in loving memory of my husband, Jimmy Norton; our parents, Eva and Wilmer Long and Jim and Becky Norton; and Lee and E.T. Perkins, Francis, Gloria and Heather Long; and our pets — $100
