Remembering
Emilia "Toni" Cardona
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Board Member of Riverstone Senior Life Services from 2005.
This year, Emilia “Toni” Cardona, a Board member died unexpectedly while on a trip to Spain with her daughter. Toni joined our board of directors in 2005. She helped us go through the painful process of changing our name from Fort Washington Houses, helped us find volunteers to teach ESL classes, and served on the fund raising committee. But Toni knew us long before that because her father, Jose Antonio Girona used to come to the Senior Center where he took piano lessons. One year for his birthday Toni and her two daughters came to help celebrate and I still remember how proud he was of them and how much they cared about him. But Toni was not just a devoted mother and daughter. She was also known throughout the community as an activist...
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