Local CT Funeral Homes Collecting Holiday Toys/Gift Cards

From CFDA:The Connecticut Funeral Directors Association’s (CFDA) statewide collection drive for Connecticut National Guard’s Operation ELF’s (Embracing Lonely Families) and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center is in full swing and will continue through next Wednesday, December 5th.

A total of 44 funeral homes across Connecticut are welcoming donations of unwrapped toys and gift cards from the public. In addition, on Thursday, December 6th from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., people can drop off these items to CFDA’s 130th Annual Convention at the Red Lion Hotel (formally the Radisson Cromwell Hotel) at 100 Berlin Rd. (Rt. 372) in Cromwell.

“We are pleased open our doors to Connecticut residents and encourage them to bring in donations of gift cards and toys,” explains Edward J. Sheehy Jr., President of the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association. “We hope that our over 40 convenient community sites will supplement the collection efforts of both Operation ELF and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. We hope that state residents will stop in a funeral home near them and donate an item that will mean so much to another Connecticut family.”

All gift cards, toys and funds collected by the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association will be delivered directly to Operation ELF and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center before the holidays.

Operation ELF welcomes gift cards of any dollar value to grocery, department stores, home supply stores, gas stations, and pharmacies, as well as unwrapped toys for young people of any age. These items will be given to families of Connecticut National Guard soldiers and airmen who are deployed during the holidays and throughout the year.

Connecticut Children’s Medical Center welcomes new and unwrapped toys that are appropriate for hospitalized infants, children, adolescents or teenagers and do not pose a safety hazard, such as those with sharp edges or small, removable or easily breakable parts. These toys will be distributed to patients around the holidays and at different times of the year.

Donations of gift cards and toys may be dropped off during regular business hours at any of the following 44 funeral homes, now through December 5th(listed in alphabetical order of town/city):

Avon: Carmon Funeral Home & Family Center at 301 Country Club Rd., 860-673-8610;

Bloomfield: Henry L. Fuqua Funeral Service at 94 Granby St., 860-769-6841;

Bristol: Funk Funeral Home at 35 Bellevue Ave., 860-583-4107;

Cheshire: Alderson-Ford Funeral Home of Cheshire at 615 S. Main St., 203-272-7209;

Cromwell: Cromwell Funeral Home at 506 Main St., 860-346-6464;

Danbury: Cornell Memorial Home at 247 White St., 203-748-4833;

Derby: Edward F. Adzima Funeral Home at 253 Elizabeth St., 203-735-0111;

East Hartford: D’Esopo East Hartford Memorial Chapel at 30 Carter Street, 860-568-9420;

Enfield: Leete-Stevens Family Funeral Homes & Crematory at 61 South Rd., 860-749-2244;

Fairfield: Shaughnessey-Banks Funeral Home at 50 Reef Rd., 203-255-1031;

Greenwich: Castiglione Funeral Home at 544 Old Post Rd. #3, 203-869-0894;

Manchester: Holmes-Watkins Funeral Home at 400 Main St., 860-643-2441;

Manchester: John F. Tierney Funeral Home at 219 West Center St., 860-643-1222;

Manchester: Manchester Funeral Home at 142 E. Center St., 860-643-6226;

Meriden: John J. Ferry & Sons Funeral Home at 88 East Main St., 203-235-3338;

Middletown: Doolittle Funeral Home at 14 Old Church St., 860-346-6464;

Mystic: Mystic Funeral Home at 51 Williams Ave. (Rt. 1), 860-536-2888;

Naugatuck: Alderson-Ford Funeral Home of Naugatuck at 201 Meadow St., 203-729-2253;

New Britain: Duksa Family Funeral Homes at Burritt Hill at 332 Burritt St., 860-229-9021;

New Britain: Erickson-Hansen Funeral Home at 411 South Main St., 860 229-5676;

New Haven: Howard K. Hill Funeral Service at 1287 Chapel St., 203-624-4477;

New London: Thomas L. Neilan & Sons Funeral Home at 12 Ocean Ave., 860-443-1871;

Newington: Duksa Family Funeral Homes at Newington Memorial at 20 Bonair Ave., 860-666-0600;

Newtown: Honan Funeral Home at 58 Main St., 203-426-2751;

Norwalk: Hoyt-Cognetta/Lesko Funeral Home at 5 East Wall St., 203-847-7291;

Plainville: Bailey Funeral Home at 48 Broad St., 860-747-2295;

Rockville: Burke-Fortin Funeral Home at 76 Prospect St., 860-875-5490;

Rocky Hill: Rose Hill Funeral Home at 580 Elm St., 860-529-3381;

Seymour: Ralph E. Hull Funeral Home at 161 West Church St., 203-888-2538;

Shelton: Riverview Funeral Home, Inc. at 390 River Rd., 203-924-6800;

Southbury: Carpino Funeral Home at 750 Main St. South, 203-264-1991;

South Windsor: Samsel & Carmon Funeral Home at 419 Buckland Rd., 860-644-2940;

Stafford Springs: Introvigne Funeral Home at 51 East Main St., 860-684-2538;

Stratford: Adzima Funeral Home at 50 Paradise Green Place, 203-375-2200;

Torrington: Cook Funeral Home at 82 Litchfield St., 860-482-4456;

Torrington: Gleeson-Ryan Funeral Home at 258 Prospect St., 860-489-4104;

Vernon: Ladd-Turkington & Carmon Funeral Home at 551 Talcottville Rd., 860-875-3536;

Wallingford: B. C. Bailey Funeral Home at 273 South Elm St., 203-265-1111;

Wallingford: Wallingford Funeral Home at 809 North Main Street Ext., 203-269-7777;

West Hartford: Molloy Funeral Home, 906 Farmington Ave., 860-232-1322;

West Hartford: Sheehan-Hilborn-Breen Funeral Home, 1084 New Britain Ave., 860-561-3800;

Wethersfield: D’Esopo Funeral Chapel at 277 Folly Brook Blvd., 860-563-6117;

Willimantic: Potter Funeral Home at 456 Jackson St., 860-423-2211; and

Windsor: Carmon Community Funeral Home at 807 Bloomfield Ave., 860-688-2200.

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