Grandmother turns to Holiday Hope Fund after death of her daughter

Need does not always appear with a loud knock on the door.

In many instances, it doesn’t announce itself or give any warning at all.

Circumstances change and the realization comes slowly that the challenge you are facing is not something you can handle on your own.

For the staff and volunteers at Morristown-Hamblen Central Services, the work they do for the Citizen Tribune Holiday Hope Fund can be a lesson in human resilience.

“It’s always surprising to see how little people are surviving on and living on, especially households with kids,” Central Services Executive Director Ashley Hux said.

Hux, who has young children of her own, was touched by the situation of a woman who is taking care of two grandchildren after the death of her daughter.

“She is in her late 50s, these children’s