Marion Keenan Giving Society

A pioneer and remarkable leader, Marion Keenan’s life was a testament to her compassion and dedication to the dignity and comfort of those in their final days. As the inaugural leader of Coastal Hospice, she laid the foundation for a compassionate and dedicated organization, forever changing the landscape of end-of-life care on the Lower Eastern Shore.

Marion Keenan served as President of Coastal Hospice for twenty-seven years. With unwavering commitment, Marion navigated the challenges of building a new organization. Her vision and determination brought Coastal Hospice to life, transforming what started as a Home Health Agency covering a 15-mile radius in Salisbury, MD into the organization we are today, serving four counties and covering more than 2,600 square miles. Without a doubt, her leadership was a beacon of hope, illuminating the path for us all to follow.

The Giving Society

We honor her legacy by renaming our Charter Society to the Marion Keenan Giving Society. The Marion Keenan Giving Society is an honorary recognition established by Coastal Hospice to honor generous donors who have significantly supported the organization through lifetime giving.

Benefactor Level

Donors who have contributed $25,000 or more over their lifetime receive special distinction within the Society and are honored as Benefactors.

This recognition serves to acknowledge and celebrate the vital role of philanthropy in sustaining Coastal Hospice’s mission and services.

Membership Criteria

Individuals who have contributed at least $10,000 over their lifetime to Coastal Hospice are inducted into the Marion Keenan Giving Society.

Benefactors

A. T. and Mary H. Blades Foundation, Inc.
American Airlines, Inc.
American Legion Dorchester Post #91
American Legion Post #123, Boggs Disharoon
American Legion Post 64
American Legion Synepuxent Post #166
Bank of Ocean City
Barbara Allyn Blackburn Charitable Remainder Unitrust
Carl J. Williams & Sons, Inc.
Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, Inc.
Deeley Insurance Group
Delmarva Irish American Club
Eastside Memorial VFW Post 2996
Estate of C. Hargis Merrill
Estate of Carol Williamson
Estate of Charles B. LaSalle
Estate of Clifford R. Jarrett, Jr.
Estate of Evelyn P. Ruark
Estate of John & Hannah Handy
Estate of Laura M. Brittingham
Estate of Naomi Brooks
Estate of Norma W. Knowles
Estate of Robert Lee Smith
Estate of Ruth Nichols
Estate of Ruth Travers Bennett
Estate of Sara Jane Kelly
First Shore Federal
Franklin P. & Arthur W. Perdue Foundation
Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #4503
Hallowell Foundation
Harrison Group
Herrmann-Freeman Fund
Homer & Martha Gudelsky Family Foundation, Inc.
Humphreys Foundation, Inc.
Joan W. Jenkins Foundation, Inc.

John & Wauna Harman Foundation
John Edward Whittington, Jr. Charitable Trust
Kathryn Washburn Donor Advised Fund
Kuhn’s Jewelers, Inc.
L. Franklin & Gertrude H. Purnell Foundation, Inc.
LINKBANK
Lois J. Rodgers Memorial Fund
Mason Family Endowment Fund
Ocean City Elks Lodge #2645
Ocean City Lions Club
Ocean City Parrothead Club
Parkel Corporation
Pepsi Bottling Ventures of Salisbury
Philip and Barbara Long Family Foundation
Phyllis Vinyard Donor Advised Fund
PNC Bank
Quiet Storm Surf Shop
Quillin Foundation, Inc.
Richard A. Henson Foundation, Inc.
Richard and Patricia Hazel Charitable Fund
Richard M. Laws Sr. and Ruth W. Laws Endowment Fund
Robert Lee Smith Memorial Fund
Salisbury Moose Lodge # 654
Samuel R. & Evelyn Q. Coffin Memorial Donor Advised Fund
Schwab Charitable Fund
Securian Life Insurance Company
State of Maryland
Taylor Bank
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. W. Thomas Hershey
The John B. Parsons Foundation
The Kahlert Foundation
The Palmer Foundation
Thomas G. Hanley Trust
Three Lower Counties Community Services, Inc.

Tony Tank Tribe #149
United Way of Delaware
United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore
Veterans of Foreign Wars Choptank Memorial Post 7460
VFW Post #194
WBOC – Draper Media
Worcester County Commissioners
Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Banks, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Alfred H. Beattie
Ms. Marjorie T. Booth
Mr. Charles E. Bounds
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Layton E. Bunting, Jr.
Mr. John H. “Jack” Burbage, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Hugo Cardenas
Mr. William H. Cole, III
Dr. & Mrs. David E. Cowall
Mr. Reese F. Cropper, III
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Dickerson
Mr. James H. Dryden
Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas J. Dudas
Mr. & Mrs. H. Dean Epperson
Estate of Beryl S. Phippin
Estate of Charles Elmer Wharton, Jr.
Estate of Clarence W. Taylor
Estate of Elinor Adkins Fields
Estate of Elizabeth L. Williams
Estate of Elmer Bouchelle
Estate of Iris Rose Duncan
Estate of J. David Vaughn
Estate of Lucy Tull
Estate of Margaret T. Jordan
Estate of Marian G. Morton
Estate of Mary M. Harispe
Estate of Nannie Davis
Estate of Shirley Reeves
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Farrow
Dr. Edmond Fleming
Mr. & Mrs. Caleb L. Fowler
Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Gasior
Ms. Judy Glenn

Mr. Nolan J. Graves, III
Mr. & Mrs. W. Franklin Gunion
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hanna
Mrs. Fifi Hiotis-Blackburn
Drs. Alan & Natalie Hopson
Ms. Ethel H. James
Ms. Charlotte L. Jones
Mrs. Marilyn Keane
Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Laws, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Theophane L. Loughrey
Dr. & Mrs. James E. Martin
Mr. & Mrs. Leighton W. Moore, Jr.
Ms. Susanne S. Morris
Mr. & Mrs. Rusty Palmer
Mr. Anthony S. Pograbski
Ms. Elaine Reed
The Estate of George R. Reynolds
Mr. Raymond C. Shockley, P.A.
Ms. Lois A. Sirman
Ms. Hannah Smith
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Smith
Estate of Lorraine E. Smullen
Mr. Lingan T. Spicer
Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Stansell, Jr.
Mrs. Margaret Lee Tawes
The Estate of Phyllis C. Taylor
The Estate of Margaret A. Toadvine
Mr. & Mrs. Dirk W. Widdowson
Mr. & Mrs. J. Ross Wilde, Jr.

Giving Society

Amelia G. Ward Donor Advised Fund
American Legion Auxiliary 91
American Legion Auxiliary Unit # 16
American Legion Stanley Cochrane Post 16
Apple Discount Drugs
Avery W. Hall Insurance Agency, Inc.
Avery W. Hall Memorial DA Endowment Trust Fund
B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge #817
Baum Foundation
Bay Country Homes, Inc.
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks Cambridge Lodge # 1272
Bill Wills Memorial Fund
Bost Family Charitable Remainder Unitrust
Breakthru Beverage
Candy Kitchen Shoppes
Charity United Methodist Church
Charles Brown Glass Company
Choptank Electric Trust, Inc.
Coastal Association of Realtors, Inc.
Credit Bureau of Del-Mar-Va, Inc.
Culver Enterprises, Inc.
Dan Kenney Memorial Golf Tournament
Delmarva Power
Dr. Jack K. Williams Foundation
Eastern Shore Distributing, LP
Estate of Evelyn Coffin
Estate of Joseph Howard Adkins
Estate of Pauline D Walston
Hebron Savings Bank
Holloway Funeral Home
I.B.E.W. Local #24
John’s Auto Body Repair & Towing
Jolly Roger Amusement Park
Lambertson Farms, Inc.
Lens Art of Salisbury
Lifetime Masonry & General Construction Company, Inc.
Lioness Club of Berlin
M.R. Ducks
Manokin Presbyterian Church
Mary’s Fund Foundation Inc.
Massey Family Donor Advised Endowment Fund
Mi-Lin, Inc. T/A The Bearded Clam
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Northern Building Restoration Inc.

Ocean City Power Squadron
Pauline F and W David Robbins Charitable Foundation
Pocomoke Ruritan Club Endowment Fund
Pohanka Automotive Group of Salisbury, Inc.
RYT Plumbing, Inc.
Salisbury Elks Lodge #817
Salisbury University Foundation, Inc.
Salisbury Wicomico Lions Club
Schulman Foundation Inc.
Small Business Administration
Sysco Eastern Maryland, LLC
Estate of Ronald Hoar
The Lisa Trivits and David Wagner Charitable Gift Fund
The Lloyd A. Richardson Foundation
Thomas P. Monahan, LLC
TidalHealth
Town of Ocean City
Truist formerly BB&T Bank
United Way of Central MD Inc.
Virginia H. Korff Donor Advised Endowment Fund
White Marlin Open, Inc.
Wicomico Memorial VFW
Wicomico Presbyterian Church
Williams, Moore, Shockley & Harrison, LLP
Winter Quarters Ladies Golf Association
WMDT TV-47
Worcester County Health Department
Wulff’s Mercedes & BMW Specialists
Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Abbott
Dr. Pamela J. Zorn & Mr. James W. Almand, Esq.
Mr. Edward L. Anderton
Ms. Lucille B. Ankora
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Ball
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Barber
Mr. Richard S. Barr, III
Ms. Margaret Barrueta
Mrs. Patricia P. Baum
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Bellavance
Dr. & Mrs. Timothy L. Benning
Ms. Kristi Bertrand-Tucker

Mr. William B. Blank
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Bozick
Mr. Melvin J. Bradley
Mr. & Mrs. Byron D. Braniff
Mrs. Gladys Bridge
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Capen
Mr. & Mrs. William R. Carder
Mr. & Mrs. B. Randall Coates, Esq.
Ms. Marion M. Connolly
Mr. William F. Cropper
Mrs. Janice K. Davis
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Dempsey
Ms. Regina Z. Dennis
Sally H. Dowling, M.D.
Ms. Patricia Dumler and Mr. David Smith
Dr. Carolyn J. Elmore
Estate of Elizabeth B. Pusey
Estate of Ellis Parker Sturgis
Estate of Freedom H Ainsworth
Estate of Gene H. Phillips
Estate of John E. Wooster
Estate of Marguerite U. Byrne
Estate of Melvin W. Harrison
Estate of Wade D. Ward
Estate of William B. Dofflemyer
Mr. & Mrs. John Fager
Mr. & Mrs. Salvatore Fiscina
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Gibbs
Mr. & Mrs. Palmer Gillis, III
Mr. William M. Glime
Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Gordy, Jr.
Dr. Joseph A. Grasso, Jr.
Mr. John Gudelsky
Mr. & Mrs. Rolfe Gudelsky
Ms. Alberta Harrison
Mr. Richard F. Hazel
Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Hough
Mr. Russell A. Houseal
Estate of Peggy Jones Howard
Ms. Sara B. Howe
Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Humphrey
Mrs. JoAnne Q. Jackson
Mr. & Mrs. W. Newton Jackson
Dr. & Mrs. R. Douglas Jerge
Estate of Dympnia M.J. Jessich
Mrs. Joan C. Jordan
Mr. Robert Jordan
Estate of Theresa E. Kapusinski
Dr. Kent N. Kimmel
Mrs. Sylvia Langeler

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Legge
Mr. & Mrs. Francis G. Low
Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Mabe
Mrs. Cindi Martin
Ms. Judith V. L. Mason
Mrs. Joan Matyiko
Mr. Wayne E. McCabe
The Honorable Joseph M. Mitrecic
Mr. & Mrs. W. Ronald Morgan
Ms. Elizabeth A. Morris
Mr. Richard A. Morton
Mr. Robert W. Nock, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Ollinger
Dr. & Mrs. G. Eric Palmer
Mrs. Frances G. Payne
Mr. & Mrs. Franklin P. Perdue
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Perdue
Mr. Charles J. Potts
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Purcell
Ms. Ann K. Purnell
Mr. Russell Ruark
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Schrader
Drs. Lyle & Judith Sensenbrenner
Mr. Charles Sharretts, III
Mr. James T. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Todge Spieczny
Mr. & Mrs. Wesley D. Stephens
Mr. & Mrs. Wesley D. Stephens
Mr. James H. Sullivan, IV
The Brenner Family
Ms. Catherine H. Tilghman
William Tilghman
Mr. & Mrs. Matthew W. Tilghman, Jr.
Ms. Margaret A. Toadvine
Mrs. Margaret R. Tongue
Mrs. Margaret Webb
Mr. Peter A. Wimbrow, III
Mrs. Margie H. Wisniewski
Dr. & Mrs. Donald M. Wood
Mr. & Mrs. William E. Wyatt, III
Mr. Colston E. Young