Known as the “Mother Teresa” of the elderly, Debbie has lovingly cared for her Visiting Angels clients around the Mentor, OH area for more than 17 years.

“Debbie deserves this honor because she has a servant’s attitude and heart. Her resilience, patience, neatness, unselfishness, dedication, and tenderness shine through,” says Mary Kay Brodnan.

Sara sings with her clients, reads scripture, takes them for lunch, dinner and ice cream. When her client was depressed, she drove him back to his hometown so he could reminisce about his school and business.

When another client was dying, Sara would rub her back, and brush her hair and sing “Precious Lord Take My Hand” until the woman died. The woman’s daughter says with Sara there, her mom’s passing was “beautiful and peaceful and something she’ll remember for the rest of her life.”

Grandma, Doris Carriere, who has 20 grandkids of her own, loves to care for seniors. Doris once laid down all night next to her elderly woman client who had bad hallucinations and wouldn’t go to sleep. Doris never moved because she didn’t want to wake the woman, and the family watched on camera, amazed at Doris’ dedication to their mom.