Reid Hospital Volunteers
May Volunteer a Gift Shop strong suit
Nancy Ramsey-Larsh, an avid bridge player who has bid her contract for volunteer hours up to 1,300 since February 1996, has been proclaimed Volunteer of the Month for May at Reid Hospital & Health Care Services.
A top saleswoman at the gift shop, “Nancy is a special and dear lady; happy, outgoing and delighted to be with others,” wrote one nominator.
Another noted that when the Richmond-area resident comes in, “She is always up, has a smile on her face and is ready to sell anything to anyone.”
“It’s hard to resist when Nancy gives her ‘sales pitch’. She is so good at what she does, she must have been a car salesman in a former life,” opined one of her fans. One recent customer, who came in for an Advil and left with an anniversary ring for his wife, speculated that she could sell mustache wax to billiard balls.
Ramsey-Larsh, retired after 30 years in the payroll and accounting department at Dana, also volunteers at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church as an accounting assistant.
Beyond her enthusiasms for cards and the Reid Gift Shop, Ramsey-Larsh loves hanging out around home with Gordon, her husband of eight years.
“Nancy is extremely proud of her family,” reports one of her fellow gift shop stalwarts. Thus enumerated are daughter Deborah Kendall, who lives in North Carolina, and two granddaughters, Leah, in graduate school, and Stacy, a grade school principal.
