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A Gift For Shirley
Seven years after her death, Shirley Wimmer's
friends and family host a gift show in her memory.
JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER
It wasn't too long ago that
Shirley Wimmer was alive.
Struggling with asthma, but
I alive.
And for her friends, remem-
bering her has become a holiday
tradition. Each year, after most
of the leaves have fallen, a group
of her closest friends hosts a hol-
iday gift show to benefit the
American Cancer Society (ACS).
"It is so sad to me that her
family doesn't have her any-
more," said Lynn Aleman, one of
the show organizers and a friend
of Ms. Wimmer's since the fourth
grade. "To have this show is like
a nice warm fuzzy for me. It is my
way of giving back what she gave
to me."
Shirley Wimmer grew up liv-
ing with a bad case of asthma.
Some days it was an ordeal to get
out of bed, others were easier. Ac-
cording to friends, she lived every
one of them.
founders of the American Can-
cer Society's Southfield-Farm-
ington Hills-Farmington chapter.
"We thought she needed to be re-
membered in some way."
Along with Mr. Kalisky, his
wife Sue, Ms. Wimmer's sister
Rose Evans and friend Lory An-
tonucci, Ms. Aleman came up
with the idea of a benefit craft
show, with proceeds going to
ACS's Shirley Wimmer Memor-
ial Fund. The fund is dedicated
to supporting services for chil-
dren with cancer, once a soft spot
in Ms. Wimmer's heart.
The show, now in its sixth
year, started out with a few ven-
dors who donated a portion of
their proceeds from the two-day
affair for a total of $3,500.
In donated space at the
Prudential Town Center, the
show has grown to include more
than 30 vendors who sell sports
memorabilia, dolls, Judaica, or-
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At left, event co chairperson Lynn Aleman holds up the proposed program.
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So when a friend asked her to
lead a Focus on Living support
group for the local ACS chapter,
she gladly accepted the challenge.
At each meeting she gave the
participants a little of her com-
monsense approach of living with
a chronic disease.
"Shirley had been through
these groups herself, even though
she was young," said Ms. Ale-
man. "She taught people to set
short-term goals, like getting out
of bed and making it to the couch
if that was all you could do."
In 1989, Ms. Wimmer, then 32
and a few months into leading
the group, suffered one of her
many asthma attacks. But this
time, something more serious
went wrong and her brain was
deprived of oxygen long enough
to put her in a coma. She died a
few months later.
"She was our age when she
died," said Jay Kalisky, one of the
naments, cards, clothing, pottery,
baskets and quilts. In addition,
a silent auction features goods
from several businesses in the
Detroit area.
Vendors pay $50 for each table
they use and donate 15 percent of
their receipts; 100 percent of the
silent auction proceeds go the
Wimmer fund. Last year, the
show brought in $14,000.
"We want to keep this going,"
said Ms. Aleman. "We don't want
to let her death go unnoticed and
let her memory slip away. These
are two days that her friends and
her family think about her." O
The American Cancer Society's
sixth annual Holiday Gift Show
will be held on Thursday, Nov. 21,
and Friday, Nov. 22, from 10:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Prudential
Town Center Garden Atrium in
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