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Farmington, MI 48336
(248) 474-9579
FAX: (248) 474-9570
Contact Person: Christine Cuthbert

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eggy is one
of those
"1 get a
people who
tremendous
seem to appear
magically where
feeling of
they're needed. A
accomplishment
social worker by
profession, she's
when I see
attuned to helping
people move
people cope. She
brings those skills
forward and
to her volunteer
know there is a
job as facilitator of
the Temple Beth
future."
El Bereavement
Honorable Menschen
Support Group,
which she helped develop six years ago with
Rabbi Julian Cook, who has since left
Detroit.
West Bloomfield
She understood the need for such a group
when she faced several deaths of loved ones in
a short time span. "There was no place to turn," she says. As an extension
of the temple support group, she finds herself working with Hospice of
Southeast Michigan and with area funeral chapels and nursing homes,
helping individuals and families come to terms with their losses.
At temple, Peggy is unofficially known as "The Resource." She gets
many phone calls and referrals from rabbis. And because she has med-
ical social work experience, people turn to her for input on home care and
nursing homes.
"I don't make decisions for them, but I help them sort out options,"
she says. "Sometimes they just need someone to listen or hold their hand."
Peggy also takes temple seniors under her wing, offering them rides,
taking them shopping, sitting with them when doctors give diagnoses.
And she serves on the temple's inclusivity committee.
Professionally, she works for National Council of Jewish Women's
SPACE for Changing Families, running support groups for grieving teens
and adults dealing with divorce. And she lectures about Parkinson's
disease for the Michigan Parkinson's Foundation and Botsford Hospital.
As a volunteer, she also serves on the boards of the Agency for Jewish
Education and MJAC (Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition), among
others.
"Peggy Frank exemplifies everything we would hope to find in a good,
caring and loving person. I consider her in many ways saintly," says
Temple Beth El's Rabbi Daniel Syme. "She gives of her time — untiringly
as an advocate for those who need her desperately. She's a very, very
special woman.
Peggy says her volunteer experiences have enhanced her Jewishness.
"It's helped me learn another part of me and my spirituality by helping
people know there is strength," she says.
Keri tauten Kohen

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