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"The Duvall Home has been home the past 46 years for our daughter Mary Theresa (Snookie) Daly. Mentally, she is aged about six months, receiving
full baby care. She is happy and well and has reached her own potential.
With a sweet and gentle nature, she is easy to love – a love which she reciprocates in her own precious way, to her mother’s greatest joy.
Her clothes and bedding are clean, her skin and hair in excellent condition.
I have never seen any sign of abuse or lack of care. She responds warmly to staff and obviously enjoys her life, even thought limited to a wheelchair and an ultra-comfortable and safe “pool” bed.
Over all the years, we have never worried about her care or safety. The Duvall Home is the greatest blessing to those in similar need."
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Tess Daly
DeLand, FL 10-03-2011 |
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"Thank you for your contribution to our meeting on Saturday. It was a really good, uplifting and future forward meeting. We appreciated your time on Saturday. I especially appreciated your warmth. Here is my heart’s journey to the Duvall Home or the Yellow House as Hoy David called it when he first saw it. As a young adult, placing my younger brother in a home other than ours was a terrifying and daunting task. Our parents were deceased, my brother’s medical issues were difficult to deal with in a home setting. I had direction from a fellow parent from his school who had visited the Duvall Home and was impressed with the warmth there and home like setting.
On my first visit and subsequent second and third and forth, I just remember the warmth and the people who worked there. They have come to be known as my angels, my family and my friends. We were welcomed by Blake and Joyce Davis with open arms, doors and hearts. I have always visited my brother, Hoy David, in all these almost 30 years, unannounced. As I am over 4 hours away, and working full time, I am never sure when I will be there. I am never disappointed. He is happy, healthy, and well cared for. His surroundings are homey, warm and full of his favorite things.
I have had the great pleasure of knowing and growing up with some of the wonderful folks that make the Duvall Home a Home. Their being there all these years just sets in my heart that the right choice was made some almost 30 years ago. The people who make up the Duvall Home are incredible individuals. They are dedicated, hard working and truly care about the residents.
Hoy David and I have great visits in his Group Home Allgair Cottage. I am part of the family there. I have been there for countless meals, gone on field trips and shopping outings with them, visited the Opportunities Day Program and participated in many volunteer activiies when possible.
I have never in my life been so humbled or so greatly blessed. This is a home. It is our home. It is the caring and loving environment any parent would want for their child."
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Luanza Black Maitland
Fort Myers, FL 10-21-2011 |
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"The staff at McGaffin Hall do so much for our twins. In our last visit in early November, my elder daughter Anne and I noticed a big improvement in our twin’s behavior and how happy they were. It made us happy, too. We appreciate the work the staff has done."
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Louisa B. Gillespie
Stamford, CT 12-05-2011 |
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 The staff at McGaffin Hall do so much for our twins. In our last visit in early November, my elder daughter Anne and I noticed a big improvement in our twin’s behavior and how happy they were. It made us happy, too. We appreciat ... Louisa B. Gillespie
Stamford, CT
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