Hundreds came out last night to pay their final respects to sports owner Abe Pollin.
During a final memorial service held at the house that Abe built, family and those who knew him best memorialized the man that meant so much to so many.
From former Washington Bullets players Earl 'The Pearl' Monroe and Wes Unseld, to DC council members, to DC business owners, all told how Mr. Pollin enriched their lives.
[From left to right: Robert Pollin, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, Wizards Antawn Jamison, Earl 'The Pearl' Monroe, Attorney Tiffany Alston, NBA Commissioner David Stern]
Tiffany Allston, just a young elementary student when she was first introduced to Mr. Pollin's kindness, recounted the time that Pollin told her and 56 other students of her then Seat Pleasant, Maryland class that he was going to pay for them to go to college. That was in 1988.
"All we had to do was work hard, and he would pay for us to go to college", said Alston.
Alston, now an attorney, says that because of Abe Pollin her class includes doctors, lawyers, public servants, and teachers.
Pollin's son Robert reflected on how his father was concerned about the other family he had adopted. His employees. "He'd say, did you hear so-and-so was in the hospital?", said Robert Pollin. "We have to help pay the bill."
Those acts of kindness, the caring for others -- just because -- is what people remember most.
Pollin, owner of the Washington Mystics, Caps, and Wizards, died three days before Thanksgiving after battling a brain cancer that left him without many of his faculties and left him wheelchair bound.
But never changed his caring heart.
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[Photos: W. Barron for DC UrbanSports]
During a final memorial service held at the house that Abe built, family and those who knew him best memorialized the man that meant so much to so many.
From former Washington Bullets players Earl 'The Pearl' Monroe and Wes Unseld, to DC council members, to DC business owners, all told how Mr. Pollin enriched their lives.
[From left to right: Robert Pollin, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, Wizards Antawn Jamison, Earl 'The Pearl' Monroe, Attorney Tiffany Alston, NBA Commissioner David Stern]
Tiffany Allston, just a young elementary student when she was first introduced to Mr. Pollin's kindness, recounted the time that Pollin told her and 56 other students of her then Seat Pleasant, Maryland class that he was going to pay for them to go to college. That was in 1988.
"All we had to do was work hard, and he would pay for us to go to college", said Alston.
Alston, now an attorney, says that because of Abe Pollin her class includes doctors, lawyers, public servants, and teachers.
Pollin's son Robert reflected on how his father was concerned about the other family he had adopted. His employees. "He'd say, did you hear so-and-so was in the hospital?", said Robert Pollin. "We have to help pay the bill."
Those acts of kindness, the caring for others -- just because -- is what people remember most.
Pollin, owner of the Washington Mystics, Caps, and Wizards, died three days before Thanksgiving after battling a brain cancer that left him without many of his faculties and left him wheelchair bound.
But never changed his caring heart.
Related
Pollin Funeral
[Photos: W. Barron for DC UrbanSports]
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