Morgan Hill resident Walter K. Palmer has donated $30,000 to Barbara Mount, president of the JW House Board of Directors. The house, which has not been built, would offer shelter to many cancer patients in the county.
Palmer donated the funds during the second annual JW House Golf
Tournament at Cinnabar Hills June 9, where 100 golfers participated raising more than $50,000 during the silent and live auctions.
Palmer, a retired Kaiser Permanente employee, attended the post-tournament dinner with his daughter, Karen Anderson, companion Nesya Fishstrom and son-in-law Einar Anderson.
“When we learned about J.W. Knapen’s dream to build a special home for families of young cancer patients, like himself, who are receiving treatment at the Kaiser Hospital in Santa Clara, it was a natural that my father make the gift,” said Anderson.
Since the drive started three years ago, the JW House has raised $1.2 million with a goal of $1.5 million. The JW House will be built near Kaiser Hospital, in Santa Clara, where families can stay with their loved ones during long hospitalizations.
