Time to Start Over

It was the phone call no one wants. The day after her son graduated from high school, LaGracia Guice-Williams received a call from her employer, a funeral home. She was told not to come in to her job as director the next day.

“That was how they let me go after ten and a half years,” she said. “It had never happened to me before. It was a shock.”

At a time when economic conditions have made it even more difficult for displaced workers to get by, LaGracia shares that she was “one of the lucky ones,” because she did have some savings and was able to make mortgage payments through the first of the year. But it was scary.

Download the pdf at left to read the story originally published in our 2009 Annual Report to the Community.