Angela Hospice helps inspire Hollywood movie

Lucille Hoedl and Bruce Cameron at Angela Hospice's 
Laughter Lifts You Up event in 2009.

If you’re planning to go see A Dog’s Journey, which is playing at the Penn Theatre in Plymouth and the Farmington Civic this weekend, there’s an interesting connection between that movie and Angela Hospice. 

Angela Hospice was listed in the acknowledgements for the novel A Dog’s Journey, which was first published in 2012. Author W. Bruce Cameron visited Angela Hospice ten years ago when he performed at our Laughter Lifts You Up event. Accompanied by his aunt Lucille Hoedl, an Angela Hospice volunteer, Bruce met with several Angela Hospice staff members, some of whom he also mentions in the acknowledgements for A Dog’s Journey:

"Much of what I know about hospice and end-of-life care I learned from my aunt Lucy, who volunteered for decades at Angela Hospice in Livonia, Michigan. She introduced me to Bob Alexander, and he, Barb Iovan, Mary Ann Joganic, LMSW, Peggy Devos, RN, and Karen Lemon, RN, CHPN, BS, were patient and kind in answering my questions and helping me to understand what it means to have a family member in hospice care. I want to thank them, both for their information and their gentle assistance to Aunt Lucy when she passed away this last summer. Aunt Lucy, you were a second mother to me.”

A Dog’s Journey, copyright 2012

Bob Alexander was among the Angela Hospice staff
mentioned in the acknowledgments for A Dog's Journey.

Angela Hospice is grateful to Bruce Cameron for his acknowledgement, and grateful to his dear Aunt Lucy for her many years of support as an Angela Hospice volunteer. We're honored to know you both!