Arkansas Online
December 18, 2022
by Kimberly Dishongh
Toni Agnew, throughout her childhood, saw her parents and grandparents nurture friends and neighbors in their community.
“They would provide meals, help people with groceries, get kids to school, things like that,” says Agnew, of Conway. “It was something they quietly did.”
In 2013, after Agnew had retired from a career in the Air Force, she moved to Central Arkansas.
“I wanted to do something, to volunteer, for my birthday that year,” she says.
Agnew was her mother’s caregiver at the time. She and her husband, Freddie, drove past Our House on the way to her childhood home on Chester Street, where her mother still lived, almost every day.
