Potential donor located for Woosley

Word spread throughout Black Butte Ranch last week that a potential donor has been found to help Carol Woosley in her fight against cancer.

"We won't know for a week or two," said Maxine Braune, head of the Black Butte Lodge Restaurant where Carol worked for 16 years. "But we're all optimistic and Carol is still very positive as we are trying to be."

Woosley needs a bone marrow transplant and a matching donor is not easy to find.

Her husband Michael indicated that their eldest daughter might make that match.

"We've got our fingers crossed," he said. "At the moment, all we can do is hope."

Braune also said that the benefit barbecue held four weeks ago raised over $30,000, with additional contributions made into the fund in the weeks following the event, where hundreds of Woosley's friends attended and bought one or more of the 212 donated auction items.

The original one-day, fund-raising barbecue and auction, held Sunday, June 29, raised $24,000 in three hours.

One of the "auction items was Carol's personal rings which she herself donated," said a friend of hers.

"We were able to get a group together, on the spot, and buy them back for her. She now is wearing her own rings again," he said. "In fact, we had so many wanting to get in on this auction item, that we raised more than the asking price."

Those wishing to contribute to the Carol Woosley Fund may still do so by sending a check to Braune c/o Black Butte Ranch, Box 8000, Sisters 97759.

"This money will help cover that part of the procedure which ... insurance will be unable to pay," Braune said.