Our Story 

 

Hope Loves Company is the result of raising three children who have learned about ALS (or Lou Gehrig's Disease) as young children.

 

HLC's founder, Jodi O'Donnell-Ames, lost her husband Kevin Gerard O'Donnell to ALS in 2001. Kevin was funny, handsome, loving and brave. Their daughter Alina was almost three when Kevin was diagnosed. She did not understand why her daddy was different and Kevin and Jodi watched painfully as Alina noticed and adjusted to the many changes brought on by ALS.

In 2003, Jodi  married Warren Benton Ames and became the mother of his two children, Nora and Adam who were then 11 and 8. Nora and Adam lost their biological mother Tina to ALS in 2000. Nora was 9, Adam 6. They, too, expressed grief and were challenged by the loss of a parent to ALS.