CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Knights of Columbus Council #3537 in Clarksville visited the Brigadier General Wendell H. Gilbert Tennessee State Veterans’ Home Monday, October 12 bearing some very special gifts for the home and its future residents.
The organization delivered 12 wheelchairs to be used by the veterans who will soon be living at the home. Several Knights of Columbus members, most of them veterans themselves, unloaded and set up the wheelchairs and then toured the new facility.
Frank Pierce with the Knights of Columbus talked about what the group was doing for the veterans’ home. “It’s a wonderful patriotic event. We’re trying to do something meaningful for the community and God knows we have lots of veterans,” said Pierce.
Administrator for the new veterans’ home, Warren Jasper, said this about what the donation of the wheelchairs means to the facility. “It means a lot, it means first of all the community cares about us and we’re very thankful to the Knights of Columbus,” said Jasper.
Jasper added that the new Tennessee State Veterans’ Home, has been designed to be just that, a home, there are separate houses and neighborhoods the veteran’s will live in. Each house has a kitchen, living room, dining room and den.
There are nine houses with 12 beds per house which totals 108 beds. All of the rooms are single rooms so no one will have to share a room. The facility, at 250 Arrowood Drive, just off of the 101st Parkway and Fort Campbell Boulevard, is expected to open by the end of the year.