The 2025 Richmond Christmas Mother program has reached a total of $35,528.89 in gifts from the community as it begins the second full 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.
Donations are published in the Sunday and Wednesday editions of the newspaper through late January. Today’s listing covers contributions received between noon on Monday and noon on Friday.
Previously reported — $18,588.89
Today’s gifts — $16,940
Grand total — $35,528.89
Christopher Young, in honor of Donald H. Stratton, 1986 — $1,700
J. Robert and Sara J. Mooney — $250
The Rotary Club of Richmond — $1,000
The Chrisman Family Foundation — $2,500
Virginia Spratley — $300
Moira and C.T. Hill — $500
Cheryl Valenti, in memory of Roy and Helen Robinson — $100
John Warkentin — $500
Thomas Elmore — $500
David and Susan Monday — $3,000
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard E. Brown, In memory of our parents, Bayliss & Clarence Brown and Erma & Edmund Smith — $100
Christi W. Barranger — $100
Joanne Meeley — $100
Ken and Cindy LeFebre, in honor of Mary Jane, the Christmas Mother — $100
Catherine C. Harlow — $500
Louise Williams, in memory of Harold Williams Jr. — $150
Dedicated to Mary Jane Hogue and Mary Horton, who do so much! — $100
Anonymous — $100
Dick and Lucille Strauss, in honor of Mary Jane Hogue. Thanks for doing this! — $200
J. Richard Bragg — $100
Magalyn G. Menard, in memory of Bob Menard — $40
Sally and Charley Ayers, in memory of our family members and friends and in honor of our children and grandchildren — $250
Margaret Childs, in memory of my father, Bill Noftsinger, and my sister, Sara Noftsinger — $100
Cheryl Copper and Jeanie Kline, in memory of Lelia Moran — $200
Karen Austin, given in loving memory of my sister, Irene McGovern — $250
Marietta Dormire, in loving memory of Robert G. Shelly Sr., and my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard M. Perry — $100
Floyd Dormire, in memory of my daughter, Lynne Hilton — $100
In loving memory of Harold G. Bell Jr., from Mildred, Brent, Andrea, Charlie, Jack and Brent — $100
Michele and Craig Noble, in memory of our mothers, Margaret and Helen — $500
Jimmie and Winnie VanLandingham, in memory of our parents, James & Elizabeth and John & Shirley — $100
Mr. and Mrs. Robley Shelton Jones, in memory of Barry Glenn, who would want each and every one of you to watch A Christmas Story every Christmas Season — $250
Maureen J. Denlea — $100
Dr. Cheryl and John Billingsley III, in memory of Carol Hartman Billingsley and Faye Douglas Bradford — $250
Ann and Bill Lagos, in honor of Mary Jane Hogue — $250
Given with gratitude in loving memory of HHH and JCH — $300
Caroline, Peyton and Ian Walters, in loving memory of Bill McClintic and Mike Walters — $500
Ashley Pinney — $25
Krumbein Charities — $250
Tommy and Donna Lange, in honor of our friend (and fellow St. Gertrude High School alum) Mary Jane Hogue for her lifelong service to the community — $200
David and Anne Melson — $250
Holly Shaheen — $100
Gary and Lucy Hooper, in honor of Mary Jane Hogue — $100
Mercer family, in memory of great-grandmothers Betty Lee Duke and Vivian Mercer — $100
Anonymous — $200
Julie Urena — $25
Anonymous — $250
Joy and Frank, in honor of our grandchildren, John, Sarah, James and Emma, and in memory of our parents, Maria & George and Fran & Chick — $150
