Not forgotten: Local group prepares gift bags for nursing home residents

Stephanie Bowen visited her mother for the first time in a nursing home for Thanksgiving. And although she was able to take her mom home to be with family for the day, she remembers the residents who didn’t have that luxury.

“Many people were just there for Thanksgiving,” Bowen said. “They didn’t go anywhere. They didn’t have family visiting them.”

That memory played vividly in Bowen’s head as she began to snip the tags off what will be a “Not Forgotten” bag…

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