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Elizabeth Laird, Who Gave Hugs To Soldiers At Fort Hood, Dies ...!
Grandmother who gave hugs, hope to thousands of soldiers dies at 83
Over the past 12 years, Elizabeth Laird hugged hundreds of thousands of Fort Hood soldiers just before they boarded a plane for foreign lands, and her hug was their first welcome when they returned home.
The 83-year-old great-grandmother best known as the Hug Lady battled cancer for about a decade, but even through her illness, she regularly made her way to Fort Hood and hugged the necks of those being deployed.
Some were afraid or felt alone.
Elizabeth laird hug lady biography definition
She encouraged and prayed for them.
As word spread of Laird’s illness, then her death on Dec. 24, family members heard from hundreds, and they expect up to 3,000 people at her funeral service this weekend. A GoFundMe page set up several weeks ago to cover $10,000 of her medical expenses raised nearly $95,000 from 3,000 different donors.
“I love her,” Claudia Vaneza Mohead wrote on the page.
“I deployed teary eyed and scared (secretly) worried my almost two year old daugh