Help CT Funeral Directors Across CT Collect Holiday Toys & Gift Cards

For the 17th year, Connecticut Funeral Directors Assn. members (full list below and at https://www.ctfda.org/html/operation-elf.php) today kicked off its annual statewide Holiday Collection Drive! Now through Wednesday, Dec. 6, close to 50 Connecticut funeral homes are welcoming donations of toys and gift cards of any value for Operation ELF, which assists military families AND for Yale New Haven Children's Hospital’s Toy Closet Program.

Donations of unwrapped toys and gift cards may be dropped off during regular business hours at any of the following funeral homes through Dec. 6th and also on Thurs., Dec. 7th from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at CFDA’s 135th Convention at the new Bristol Event Center at 112 Century Drive in Bristol.

Below are the locations welcoming donations now through Wednesday, Dec. 6th:

Avon: Carmon Funeral Home & Family Center

Branford: W.S. Clancy Memorial Funeral Home

Bristol: O’Brien Funeral Home

Cheshire: Alderson-Ford Funeral Home

Cromwell: Cromwell Funeral Home

Derby: Edward F. Adzima Funeral Home

East Hampton: Spencer Funeral Home

East Hartford: D’Esopo East Hartford Memorial Chapel

East Hartford: Goodwin University’s Funeral Services Program in Main Campus Lobby

Enfield: Leete-Stevens Family Funeral Homes & Crematory

Fairfield: Abraham L. Green and Son Funeral Home

Glastonbury: Farley-Sullivan Funeral Home

Greenwich: Castiglione Funeral Home

Manchester: Holmes-Watkins Funeral Home

Meriden: John J. Ferry & Sons Funeral Home

Middletown: Doolittle Funeral Home

Naugatuck: Alderson-Ford Funeral Home of Naugatuck

New Britain: Duksa Family Funeral Homes at Burritt Hill

Newington: Duksa Family Funeral Homes at Newington Memorial

Newington: Neptune Cremation Service

Plainville: Bailey Funeral Home

Prospect: Prospect Memorial Funeral Home

Rockville: Small & Pietras Funeral Home

Rocky Hill: Rose Hill Funeral Home

Seymour: Ralph E. Hull Funeral Home

Shelton: Riverview Funeral Home, Inc.

South Windsor: Samsel & Carmon Funeral Home

Southbury: Carpino Funeral Home

Southbury: Munson-Lovetere Funeral Home

Southbury: Stone Family Cremation Services

Stafford Springs: Introvigne Funeral Home

Stratford: Adzima Funeral Home

Torrington: Cook Funeral Home

Torrington: Gleeson-Ryan Funeral Home

Unionville: Ahern Funeral Home

Vernon: Ladd-Turkington & Carmon Funeral Home

Wallingford: B.C. Bailey Funeral Home

Wallingford: Wallingford Funeral Home

West Hartford: Molloy Funeral Home

West Hartford: Sheehan-Hilborn-Breen Funeral Home

Wethersfield: Connecticut Funeral Directors Assn.’s office

Wethersfield: D’Esopo Funeral Chapel

Wethersfield: Farley-Sullivan Funeral Home

Willimantic: Potter Funeral Home

Windsor: Carmon Community Funeral Home

Woodbury: Munson-Lovetere Funeral Home