Widows of Deceased Veterans Foundation

Widows of Deceased Veterans Foundation was founded September, 2004, when one minister, Rev. Daisy Walden, provided assistance to a deceased veteran's wife. She desperately needed the financial assistance that could not be provided from the many places she had tried. After she visited the local Veterans Affairs office, it was determined that she was not eligible for any VA benefits. Rev. Walden, through her tenacity, found more than $7000.00 needed for this wife of a deceased veteran to prevent foreclosure on her home.


Widows of Deceased Veterans Foundation is a unique program developed to allow others in this country to help those widows we care about. There are countless Veteran widows that do not qualify for Veteran Survivor Benefits and are in need. Our foundation provides our communities with a “one-stop” service of financial, health care, and spiritual needs related to being a widow of a deceased veteran. We desperately need your help! Please help us serve those in need. Donate today!


Read just some of the incredible impact
Widows of Deceased Veterans Foundation has made:

 Since I’ve been with the Widows of Deceased Veterans Foundation, I feel that whatever I may need, if the organization cannot assist me, they will try to find the assistance for me. The support I’ve gotten from WDVF is very important to me. I feel like I am with a large and loving family that really cares. Our monthly luncheon, sponsored by Golden Corral Restaurant, is another great benefit, because at that setting, we have speakers that will come and give us the most updated information that we need.

- C.M.

 For the many years I’ve been a member of Widows of Deceased Veterans Foundation, I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I know that I have friends, if I need assistance with an issue that is particular to me. All it would take is just a phone call. It is association such as this, when a widow may be sick or just needs some counseling, that I know is available.

- V.C.

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Read these incredible letters from veteran widows in need:

Dear Sirs/ Madam,

I am disabled and am a widow of a veteran of the UNITED STATES ARMY. He served in Alaska when it was still considered overseas duty. He passed away in late 2008. Since that time I have lost our home and I have not much money as I am totally disabled. He had no life insurance and I have not been able to find anyone or anywhere for assistance!!!

At present, my telephone has been disconnected. The gas and electric are due to be disconnected any day!!! The home that we had built 30 years ago was foreclosed and I have had to move into a mobile home park. It is fine and nice, but I need help. I have been living on Peanut Butter and Crackers for the last month and am now out of that!!!

I have the following disabilities:
- MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
- LUPUS
- AUTOMATISM – A TYPE OF EPILEPSY
- TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENTS IN BOTH JAWS
- FIBROMYALGIA
- OSTEOPOROSIS
- OSTEOARTHRITIS
- And many other things

I have tried numerous things to conserve on money. Those being: looking into Magic Jack, getting a Safe Link telephone. Eating peanut butter and crackers, I don’t know what else to do. They are going to disconnect my electricity and the gas.

Also the last time I went to the grocery store I wrote a check and unfortunately it bounced!! It was for the amount of $250.00. I changed Banks and now the first bank says that I owe them over $400.00 which most of it is from overdraft fees on overdraft fees on overdraft fees!!

I have numerous medical bills as I have been hospitalized twice in the past 6 months. I have extremely low potassium which is another medical item I need to watch.

I have been searching everywhere for a GRANT to be able to possibly pay off my mobile home ($14,000.00) and I think that it would be better if my home was heated with electric instead of gas??? I don’t know. I am so depressed and I do take anti-depressants for that. My husband was my best friend and Soul Mate and I miss him terribly. I thought the pain of losing a loved one was bad when my parents passed away within a month of one another, but losing one’s husband is the worse pain I have ever felt in my life.

I truly need help and I can’t drive very far, if I drive at all. I am in extreme pain constantly and I am out of food as well. Is there anyone out there that can help me with getting more crunchy peanut butter, saltines, and letting me know where I can get assistance in paying lot rent, paying the mortgage on my mobile home, paying the electric bill which is due to be cut off at any time, as well as the gas bill which is also due to be disconnected. I did qualify for the Safe Link telephone.

Please contact me and let me know where I can go for possibly a GRANT to pay these bills and for the remaining amount on my mobile home so that all I will have to pay will be the lot rent.

Thank you in advance,

S.H.

Dear Reverend Walden,

Thank you for responding to my neighbor's call.  Here is my situation, My husband passed unexpectedly on February 4, 2008 (2 years and 4 months ago)
this month.  We were married for 21 years, we have no children.  I did not know until this year that I may be entitled to veterans’ survivors’ benefit

 I applied for Survivors benefits, also death benefits for burial.  They denied all, nothing was approved. I am currently depleted of all life insurance money because I combined money from this insurance and my incoming
money from social security disability and OPM disability to pay the mortgage and to try and sustain my living.

Unfortunately, I am now two payments behind in my mortgage and have fallen with increased medical problems.  I suffer from lymphodema of the lower extremities, glocuma in both eyes and arthritis in both knees (non-operable due to the swelling and no cartilage).

I feel really let down by the Veteran Administration because I was told that I qualified and now I can't get anything because his death was
not related to war neither are they allowing me an opportunity to refinance our home by using his VA certificate.  I don't understand because there is sufficient
money on the certificate. 

I desperately need assistance because I have very limited funds for food, utilities and prescription drugs.  I need new eye glasses but can't afford to buy them either.  My neighbor is assisting me in writing this letter.  She will get the paperwork from me to scan and fax it to your address.  Hoping you will be able to assist me in saving my home and helping me get back on my feet. 

God bless you and your organization.  My neighbor will send this email from her address when you receive this email please contact me at your earliest convenience so that I can be sure that I am sending you all the supporting
documentation you will need in order to assist. 

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

G. P.

There are so many more just like this who need OUR support. Please help us serve those in need.


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Widows of Deceased Veterans Foundation
P.O. Box 12754
Florence, SC 29504

Phone:
843-616-0864

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