Vickie Spence honored with Outstanding Service Award
♦ The annual honor is given by the Northwest Ga. Family Crisis Center.
Gordon County’s Vickie Spence was recently recognized for her work helping others.
Each year, the Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center honors a local citizen with the Nicki Sellers Outstanding Service Award named for another community member known for giving back.
“Ms. Sellers was a remarkable member of our community who was known for her passion and dedication to helping others,” NGFCC said in a release. “She was active in numerous charitable groups and is remembered as someone who never gave up on a project once she got started.”
According to NGFCC, Spence has spent most of her life and career
serving families across the county as an educator and school administrator for 33 years. She also served as United Way of Gordon County Executive Director for 13 years following
her retirement, helping to raise over $6 million with nearly $5.5 million distributed to local agencies.
“Vickie and her family have continued to support our mission even after retirement,” Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center Executive Director Katora Printup said. “People like Vickie never stop supporting their passions. We are very fortunate to have her in our corner.”
Spence received the award at the agency’s February board meeting with Sellers’ daughter Susan Patterson in attendance.
“It was a pleasure to be able to present the Nickie Sellers Award this year on behalf of my family and to honor my mother’s memory for her dedication to the center,” Patterson said. “She created the ‘Holiday Tour of Homes’ in hopes that it would bless the center, and I’m so proud that this vision she had lives on every year and continues to bless victims of domestic violence. She was truly one of a kind and believed strongly in giving back to her community.”
Spence and her husband Charles live in Calhoun, and they have two children and several grandchildren.
The Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center has a 45-year history of providing
quality victim services to Whitfield, Murray, and Gordon counties, providing emergency shelter and a 24/7 hotline. Outreach offices are also located in Dalton, Chatsworth, and Calhoun.
If you know someone in need of assistance, please have them call 706-2785586.