Dare to Care hosts inaugural drive-thru food pantry in Louisville honoring Bobby Ellis | News from WDRB [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — More than five decades after a Louisville boy died of malnutrition, his legacy helped others on Monday.

An inaugural drive-through food pantry event was held in Louisville by a local nonprofit. Dare to Care hosted the first Bobby Ellis Memorial Food Pantry at its kitchen on 1200 S. 28th Street.

Bobby Ellis died in his Louisville home on the day before Thanksgiving in 1969. In the months that followed, the Dare to Care Food Bank was created.

The nonprofit and community leaders provided nutritious food to neighbors in the Parkland neighborhood. There was also a moment of silence for Ellis.

Chickasaw resident Frances Pumphrey spent much of patiently waiting in line at Dare to Care’s headquarters to feed her family this holiday season.

“I know that I have something to eat on Thanksgiving Day and the weeks to come so I am grateful,” Pumphrey said.

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