The Marilyn III

Each piece in this collection was handcrafted with love by volunteers from Paramount using natural gemstones. Thank you, Paramount, for supporting JASA and the 40,000+ older New Yorkers we serve each year!

Marilyn is a JASA senior who depends upon the Home-Delivered Meals program. Marilyn and her husband Michael are proud New Yorkers. Before they retired, Marilyn was a teacher’s aide in a nursery school and Michael was a truck driver traveling across the country and spending winters in Alaska. Michael and Marilyn met later in life through a friend. It was love at first sight - the couple have been married for 14 years! Michael and Marilyn don’t have family close by. They enjoy reading, puzzles, and socializing with friends.

The couple relies on JASA for home-delivered meals. Michael and Marilyn have health challenges that make it difficult for them to go out grocery shopping and cook food. They say that without JASA, life would be a lot harder. Michael and Marilyn say that JASA provides more than meals; staff has helped them apply for benefits to make food more affordable.

“From the very beginning, JASA meals staff helped us tremendously by reassuring us that they could get all these things done that we needed. And they did. Without JASA, life would be much harder and we wouldn’t have food. We just hope that the services continue.”