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TOLEDO CHRONICLE - Verlene Horbach learned of an effort to collect toys for a shelter which was a successful effort for another State Farm Insurance agent. Believing it was a good idea, she found the Marsha Downs Battered Womens Shelter officials were very receptive.

Community members responded- nearly 300 new toys and cash totaling some $275 came in the door of Horbach’s downtown Toledo office since launched in late November. On Dec. 22, Guadalupe Gudino, Immigration Specialist - Bilingual Advocate for the Marsha Downs Shelter picked up the vast assortment for the program.

Horbach said there is a great need for toys for young people who are temporarily housed at the shelter. It provides a safe haven for persons and families who are involved in or fear domestic violence in a four-county area of Tama, Marshall, Hardin and Grundy.

Location of the shelter is confidential for the obvious reason of its intended purpose.

Marsha Downs, a native of Montour and a 1968 graduate of South Tama High School, lost her life in a domestic violence altercation in Toledo in 1990.

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