Family Coping With Loss Gets Help With Christmas Cheer

Denise Smith Amos, Jacksonville Times-Union
Sat, 12/20/2014 - 12:46pm

Though it has only been four months since Keri Morrill’s husband, Jeff, was killed in a hit-and-run accident, the stay-at-home, home-schooling mom of four was planning to give her children the best Christmas she could manage. She had bought a couple presents for each child, ages 18 months to seven years old, and she had put up decorations and the family tree. Then, Saturday morning, 15 new and restored Dodges pulled onto her street, some revving their engines for fun. She answered a knock on her door with “Are you kidding me?

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