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Fifteen-month-old Angel
Babcock was initially found alive
in a field in New Pekin, Ind., after a tornado had destroyed her
home and killed her parents,
little brother and her two-month
old sister on March 2, 2012. The
baby clung to life for two days
until she died that Sunday, and
was buried with her family in a
pauper’s field. While the baby
was still fighting for her life that
weekend, Wolniewicz was determined to help her in any way
he could after hearing of her survival on the news.
“I was thinking… I wanted to
give her a gift, and money, and I
wanted to let her know that I care
for her,” he says.
The fact that this little girl
had lost everything — her home,
her belongings, her family —
struck Wolniewicz. He had been
displaced from his own home for
six months in January of 2010
and lost all of his possessions.
In this respect, he was able
to empathize.
“I kind of felt it… I halfway
felt it,” he says, conscientious
of the fact that he was lucky to
have his family and a home to go
back to, eventually.
GREATEST PERSON
OF THE WEEK
AWAY FROM HOME
Catherine and David Wolniewicz
had lived in Danvers, Mass., all
their lives — they were even neighbors. Today, the parents of four volunteer extensively in their community and for the various groups and
sports teams that fill up their kids’
schedules. The close-knit family managed to keep it all together
when an oil leak in their basement
forced them from their home for
months. Looking back, the oil spill
itself was the least of their problems — its consequences — medi-
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Wolniewicz
earned an
“Emergency
Preparedness”
pin from the
Cub Scouts.