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Willie Carnell loved his granddaughter, Natalie Ballor, and he loved to roll.
This past weekend, friends and family of Carnell, who died Nov. 30, 2010, gathered together to honor his thought at the Second Annual Willie Carnell Memorial Nine Pin No Tap Tournament at Morton’s Safari Roll. All proceeds benefit Easter Seals, where his granddaughter received treatment after being diagnosed with Down syndrome when she was two days old.
“When I worked full-once upon a time, my mom and dad would often take Natalie to her therapy at Easter Seals,” Carnell’s daughter Michelle Cluney said. “He was very favoured to the cause. He donated, he did 50/50s at the bowling alley to benefit Easter Seals and they would make for a acquire with me to the telethon and show up for all Easter Seals events.”
Ballor received services at Easter Seals — including woman therapy, eating therapy and speech therapy — from the dated she was 6 months old until she was 5. Now 7, she receives services instead at coterie, but Cluney said the organization is still very important to her family.
Source: Morton Times-News