Greer Community Ministries client receives a car from Recycled Rides through D & D Motors
January 19, 2015
GREER, SC – D & D Motors, Charity Cars, and Esurance Insurance Services, Inc. handed over the keys to a car and made Sue Hollingsworth’s dream come true on Thursday, Jan. 15. Through the Recycled Ride program, D & D Motors reconditioned a 2012 Kia Forte and Hollingsworth, a Greer Community Ministries client from Taylors, was chosen as the recipient.
She will finally have reliable transportation because of the generosity of these three groups. She prayed every morning that her 1998 vehicle would crank.
“It was nothing but trouble for the five years I’ve had it,” Hollingsworth said. “I’ve had it towed three times. The starter would fail without warning. Having a reliable vehicle will help me with transportation to church, to the store, to appointments and to Greer Community Ministries where I see my friends.”
In photo: from left, Derrick Lawlis, national express manager with Esurance Insurance Services, Inc.; Suzette Hawkins, daughter of recipient, Sue Hollingsworth, recipient, and Skip Davenport, president and general manager at D & D Motors.
She will also be able to buy groceries and pay bills now that she isn’t spending money on car repairs.
Skip Davenport, president and general manager at D & D Motors, started the ball rolling with the car giveaway. He contacted GCM Executive Director Cindy Simpler to ask if there was a client in need of a vehicle. Simpler thought of Hollingsworth.
“Sue is the type of person that will help everyone around her,” Simpler said. “She is currently keeping a neighbor’s son while she works. Her life has been tough, but she graciously gives back wherever she is able. We are so happy that she will now have a car that will be safe and reliable.”
Hollingsworth was born in Greenville, attended Ellen Woodside High School, and worked at Honea Path Shirt Factory after graduating. She married early, but when that did not work out, she left the area to live in Georgia, where she met her second husband. He died suddenly when she was just 38 years old, becoming a single mom of five children.
“As the kids got older, they married and they helped me as they were able,” Hollingsworth said. But she found out she wasn’t finished raising children. Her oldest son and his wife died unexpectedly, a terrible blow. Then another son’s wife was killed in an auto accident so he asked her to come and live with him and help him with his daughter. She helped raise her until she was 16 years old.
“I can look back and see that God’s pulled me out of so much. God is good to me. He deserves all the glory,” Hollingsworth said. “I am so grateful to D & D Motors, Charity Cars and Esurance for helping me by giving me this great car.”
Recycled Rides is a unique program in which insurers, collision repairers, paint suppliers, parts vendors and others collaborate to repair and donate vehicles to deserving individuals and service organizations in local communities throughout the country. Over 800 vehicles have been donated through the National Auto Body Council’s Recycled Rides program since its inception in 2007.
Charity Cars is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose focus is to provide free donated vehicles to assist struggling families in their transition from dependency to self-sufficiency.
