Most non-profit Home & Hospice Care agencies are accustomed to donations made in the name of former patients. But when Glenn Flessas of Bedford called Souhegan Home & Hospice Care in September to make a sizable donation in honor of his father Harry, Executive Director Liane Schubring, RN, BSN, MBA/MHA was a little surprised. “Harry Flessas passed away from cancer in the spring of 2000”, she explains. “For the family to remember us after all this time…it reaffirms your belief in what you are doing.”

Each July since his father passed away, Glenn – with the support of his family – has held the Harry C. Flessas Memorial Golf Tournament at the Stonebridge Country Club in Goffstown. “My parents raised 7 kids and were married for 54 years before dad passed away,” Flessas says. “We wanted an appropriate way to honor him.”

In prior years, Flessas had donated all of the proceeds of the Tournament to the American Cancer Society. “Then, this past summer, it occurred to me”, he says. “Souhegan Home & Hospice Care took very good care of him. We should donate to them, thereby keeping it in the community.” That’s when he decided to call the agency, followed by a personal delivery of the donation on October 18.

The size of the donation – in excess of $4,000 – entitled the family to a Silver leaf on Souhegan Home & Hospice Care’s Giving Tree, which forever pays tribute to large contributions. Fittingly, Flessas opted to treat the gift as 8 smaller donations, giving him, his 6 siblings and his mother each a Bronze leaf in honor of Harry on the Tree.

“My dad had a great sense of humor and we all loved him for it,” Flessas adds. “He was always making people smile.”