In a heartwarming update, I received photos from the funeral that Good News Network fans largely funded for a homeless veteran. The man’s daughter was so touched by your generosity that she praised GNN in both the memorial program and booklet—and in the obituary published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
– By Geri Weis-Corbley, Founder and Editor-in-Chief
In the fall of 2016, we posted a story about Steve Knoke, who was living on the prosperous streets of Santa Barbara and, in his words, was “doing fine.” I struck up a conversation with him, so he sat next to me on a park bench. A young woman walked up to him and gave him her pizza restaurant leftovers, and I watched as he happily shared his good fortune with three other homeless folks who saw he had food and asked for a hand-out.
Steve Knoke was a military veteran and an artist—I bought one of his pictures that day—but, most importantly, he was kind and sober about life.
Only a few months had passed when I got an email out of the blue from the man’s daughter, April. First, she thanked me for publishing the article (which she discovered after googling her dad’s name). It had illuminated for her family the years of his life…
