Larry Flaccamio Foundation Blog

The 9th Annual Honoring Our Angels Event

9th Annual Honoring Our Angels Event On August 24th the 9th Annual Honoring Our Angels Event was held at the Dr. Richard Showers Center Huntsville Alabama. We would like to thank Kent Ballard and the team at the Dr. Richard Showers Center for everything. The event consisted of a Buffet style dinner for the families. The speaker was Brittney Dortch and Wesley Bailey performed a solo ballad. After the dinner and formalities were finished memorial gifts and door prizes were awarded. The event ended with the balloon release.  News coverage was by channel 31 waaytv.com and Fox 54 wzdx.com.

National Gun Violence Awareness

National Gun Violence Awareness Day began with the shooting death of a 15-year-old teenager named Hadiya Pendleton, on January 29, 2013 in Chicago playground. It actually started with a group of teenagers who wanted to honor Hadiya whose birthdate was June 2, 1997. Senator Dick Durbin and representative Robin Kelly introduced the resolutions recognizing June as National Gun Awareness Month and June 2 as National Gun Violence Awareness Day in honor of Hadiya and the many other victims of gun violence.

Wearing Orange. Wear Orange began on June 2, 2015. The orange color is vivid and is symbolic for safety therefore is worn by people across the nation on June 2nd to honor the countless victims and survivors of violent gun actions.

The 8th Annual Honoring Our Angels Event 2023

The 8th Annual HOA event was held on July 22, 2023, at the Dr. Richard Showers Center. The event was a buffet dinner with speakers and memorial gifts for the friends and families of our fallen young people. It is funded by the Larry Flaccamio Foundation and serviced by volunteers.

MeMe McComb victim survivor and volunteer
Joan Jones and Michael Hart voluteers
Donna Howell founder of the Larry Flaccamio Foundation

The Larry Flaccamio Foundation

The Story of The Larry Flaccamio Foundation

The Larry Flaccamio Foundation for young murder victims’ families and children at risk is fairly young and founded in 2015 by Donna Howell. Her son Larry Lee Flaccamio was murdered at age 16 on December 30, 2014. It was Larrys hope to build a house for kids that nobody wanted. After his murder through research and personal experience it became apparent to Donna that we have many social issues contributing to crime and the appalling number of young murder victims in just the Huntsville Al area. Also brought to light was the lack of a strong system for support of the murder victims’ families as they are also victims. She began the Larry Flaccamio Foundation in her son’s honor to help these families and friends of their lost loved ones. The foundation is a non profit support platform for kids at risk and young murder victims in various ways. Thank you for your support!

What is the Larry Flaccamio Foundation and what do we do?

The foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the welfare of young murder victims families and children at risk.

We provide moral support and comfort to those who have lost a young loved one.

We have events to honor the young people lost to murder and gun violence.

We strive for community awareness of the violence epidemic that has penetrated the community.

We protest the unjust laws surrounding the sentencing of the offenders who took our young people’s lives.