Emily is a volunteer for Access Hospice in Pocatello, Idaho. Currently she is volunteering as a Social Worker and working on her Social Work practicum at Idaho State University. When she started for Access, she had no idea how attached she would become to the patients she routinely visited. One patient in particular touched her heart. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Kelly Wolfe was an individual who loved his family and loved the outdoors (especially Yellowstone National Park). So when Emily met him and his family, she knew she wanted to help them through the grief process and memorialize Kelly's life. She decided that a quilt would be the perfect memorial. The quilt was hand stitched, and photos of Kelly's family and life are graphed into the fabric. She also traced Kelly and his families' hand prints and sowed them into the quilt as well. The Wolfe family were grateful for the gesture, and so is the staff at Access for having such wonderful volunteers.
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