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Article: Auction fund-raiser brings in $30,000 for Smithgall campaign; Thibault's PAC sponsors re-election event
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- May 27, 2004
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Wednesday night's fund-raiser for Lancaster Mayor Charlie
Smithgall was a success in more ways than one.
Just ask Madeline Hartzell, a Republican committeewoman from East
Hempfield.
In 1997, she visited Hong Kong with her husband, Bill.
"It was supposed to be a two-week trip, but we made it three,"
Hartzell said. "While we were over there, Bill got sick."
Hartzell said her husband told her to go out and buy a diamond
tennis bracelet, but she refused to leave his side.
"When we got home, I took him to the hospital," she said. "Ten
days later, he died."
That's why winning the two-carat diamond tennis bracelet at
Wednesday night's fund-raiser was especially sweet for Hartzell.
"Bill," she said, ...