“It’s just amazing that we still have both of them,” she said. She and her siblings grew up feeling as though they had the perfect parents, she said. One of the Voorhees’ three children also traveled far to take part in the celebration.īeth Walter has lived in Australia since the 1980s but flew to Denver to celebrate her father’s 100th birthday. That woman, Teri Welsch, is Koert’s niece, who asked Reilly to help her uncle celebrate he and Connie’s birthdays, she said.Ĭonnie Voorhees looks at some love notes given to her during a birthday party for her husband when he turned 100. “They look strong on the outside, but they are carrying a lot on their shoulders.”Įarly in the launch of her mission, Reilly had met a woman who stopped her in a coffee shop to ask what she and her mother were doing. “I’ve had grown men cry on my shoulder from every war,” she said. She has since delivered roughly 40,000 love notes to veterans and first responders across the country, carrying handwritten thank you cards in her purse wherever she goes. Reilly promised her mother upon her passing that she would keep the tradition going. The experience was so uplifting, Reilly and her mother continued writing and giving out the “love notes” at every opportunity for the final two years of her mother’s life. They then spent three hours disseminating the letters, leaving some on windshields, and handing out others at grocery stores. Naval Commander Koert Voorhees, WWII and Korean War veteran during his 100th birthday party on Sunday, Aug. A stack of “Nothing but Love Notes” sits on the lap of Retired U.S.
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