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Spectacular Memorial Butterfly Release 2025

Serenity Hospice and Home Hosts 2025 Memorial Butterfly Release Serenity Hospice and Home held its annual Memorial Butterfly Release on the sunny morning of June 28, 2025. A wonderful crowd gathered to honor and remember loved ones through the reading of memorial names, a special tribute to Veterans, and the release ...read more

Thank You for a Beautiful Day of Golf and Giving

๐ŸŒ๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธโ˜€๏ธ Thank You for a Beautiful Day of Golf and Giving! โ˜€๏ธ๐ŸŒ๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธ The Jonathon Knodle Memorial Golf Play Day was held this past Saturday, June 14 at PrairieView Golf Club in Byronโ€”and what a day it was! Sixteen teams teed off under early morning clouds that gave way to sunshine, creating ...read more

2025 Garden Luncheon Gallery

Our Snapdragons and Dragonflies Garden Luncheon was held on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at Stronghold Camp and Retreat Center in Oregon, IL. A beautiful day reigned as the large crowd of participants enjoyed a delightful meal, superb silent auction items, and a scratch-off raffle game even before lunch was served. The ...read more

RACF Awards Serenity Two Grants

The Rochelle Area Community Foundation awarded Serenity Hospice and Home two grants for 2025 projects, including holiday meals for patient families and funds to expand our bereavement retreat for grieving mothers. From the RACF website: "In 2005, the Rochelle Area Community Foundation was established with a generous gift from the late ...read more

Sterling Federal Bank Awards Serenity First Place

AMAZING NEWS Thank you to everyone who helped vote for Serenity. Serenity won first place in the Sterling Federal Charity Challenge. 1st Place-$20,000 Thank you, everyone, for voting throughout March for Serenity!!! Thank you to Sterling Federal Bank for supporting non-profit work throughout our area. Our non-profits need community support to care for people in ...read more

Spring 2025 Newsletter Available

Spring Community News The 2025 spring edition of the newsletter is now available in digital form. Click here to read online... Highlights In This Edition โ€ข Information on the impact of Serenity Hospice & Home. โ€ข Lynn Knodle's legacy. โ€ข Message from Suzanne Ravlin, CEO. โ€ข Thank you to donors and sponsors.

Winnebago Angel Treasures New Hours

Click here to learn more about all our Angel Treasures Resale Shop locations... We are in our ninth year in the ๐–๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐›๐š๐ ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, and we are grateful for your continued support of our Angel Treasures Winnebago location. Based on customer feedback, we are changing our days of operations and dropping some ...read more

Integrative Therapies Coordinator Wins Award

๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ท๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ ๐—š๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ, a 2025 IAMT Advocacy Award Winner and Integrative Therapies Coordinator with Serenity Hospice and Home. The Annual Illinois Association for Music Therapy (IAMT) Advocacy Award is given to a community member, employer, or parent committed to music therapy in their community, place of employment, ...read more

Rotary Presents Proceeds From Angel Ball

The Oregon Rotary Club Foundation was pleased to present Brion Brooks, Executive Director of Village of Progress, and Suzanne Ravlin, Chief Executive Officer of Serenity Hospice and Home, with $15,000 for each organization as proceeds from the 2024 Angel Ball. โ€ข "The club would like to thank both organizations for their work ...read more

Sterling Federal Employee Charity Challenge

Sterling Federal Bank's 8th Annual Employee Charity Challenge Sterling Federal Bank is excited to give back to the organizations that give so much to our communities! Please vote for Serenity and continue voting throughout March! You can return to vote once per day on Facebook. Your vote is essential! The organization with the ...read more