Nicks Fix updates on Barbara
 

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Thanks.Send money to Salvation Army in Barbara Nicks name.

I'm confused...the obituary states she and Jess were married for 63 years. Is that 63 years till the time Jess died or are they including it up til the day Barbara died? Or, is it just an error. Cause the former would've meant that they married when Barbara was 15. ???

Thank you THINKABOUTIT. I donated here and to the Arizona Heart Foundation in Barbara Nicks' honor. I think it's great they thought to include her fans specifically.

This isn't really odd for their generation. My grandma (a farm-raised girl) was married at 14. And had my mom - the first of 6 kids - at age 15.

Stevie was quoted as saying her mom married her dad at 19. They married in 1947, Barbara's year of birth was 1927. In their eyes, I suppose their marriage continued. Jess' obit stated 58 years of marriage in 2005.

I'm sorry but the SA is a hate group, they have not changed their policies since this was written

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...d-kettle-drive

Not to be mean - but don't donate if you feel that way. It's the Nicks family wishes for gifts to be filtered through the Salvation Army. Let's please not turn this thread into an argument over the organization. It's supposed to be informational for those who wish to participate in honoring the memory of Barbara Nicks per the family's directive. The Salvation Army does a lot of good for people in need and I think that is what is important.

I was passing on information people may not know about them ,

you might feel differently if you were gay or knew someone with AIDS that they turned away .

Not to be mean, but if Barbara Nicks had requested that donations be sent to, say, the Ku Klux Klan, I think I would respectfully decline. I don't deny the fact that the Salvation Army has done a lot of good. But at the same time, I don't think respect for equal rights is a sliding scale; it is absolute. You either support discrimination or you're against it. Piety and righteousness has no place in the business of charity, and it appalls me that any so-called "charity" applies their public goodwill toward such meaningless, hurtful ends in the name of faith.

I would like to assume that the Nicks estate was simply unaware of the S.A.'s discriminatory practices and that they would have reconsidered had they known what was being perpetrated.

Being one of MANY Stevie Nicks/FM fans of the LGBT community, I'm in total agreement about knowing this information, and inequality practices of institutions & non-profit charities to whom I chose to give donations. It matters...about what is wrong and what is righteous.

You need to do what is right for you.

I posted this in another thread:

Here's a few that we know Stevie has supported:

Arizona Heart Foundation
1910 East Thomas Road
Suite 220
Phoenix, AZ 85016
(you can do this in honor of Barbara Nicks--or all the Nicks')
http://azheartfoundation.org/donate-...art-foundation

if you want to download a form and mail it in, the Arizona Heart people have one here:
http://azheartfoundation.org/sites/d...ation-Form.pdf

City of Hope--there's one in LA, perhaps one nearer to you:
City of Hope.
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, California 91010

https://secure.cityofhope.org/donate...dsForHope.aspx


Stevie's mentioned supporting the USO:
https://www.uso.org/donate/
(you can do this in honor of Barbara Nicks)

She's got the iPOD thing that she does

There's lots of ways you can show your support of Stevie and honor her mother in this time if that's your interest. Do it for yourself . . . do it "for the world."

It's all tax deductible, too.

Okay. I just think it's disrespectful to argue about it here. Anyone can research the SA website to see where the monies go. Don't donate (or donate to one of the above) if you don't like the Nicks family choice.

SA is a hate group. I will never donate anything to them.
If that puts a bee in your bonnet you can choose not to read this.