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The American Heart Association will honor Hetta “Peaches” Kempner at the Ninth Annual Black Tie & Boots Gala to be held Saturday, March 5, at the Davidson Ballroom at the corner of Mechanic and 24th Street in Galveston. Kempner will be honored for her dedication to educating women on heart disease and the importance of recognizing early symptoms. For National Women’s Health Week, Kempner wrote a guest column for the Galveston County Daily News sharing her personal experience with heart disease, saying the disease made her feel like “an elephant was standing on my chest.” She explained although heart disease is typically associated with men, it is just as prevalent with women. Women may experience heart attacks differently from men, she said. “It
is shocking to know that diseases of the heart kill more women
than every kind of cancer, including breast, ovarian, and lung
cancers," Kempner said. "It is not easy to
convince yourself to go to the emergency room. If I had
not gone to the emergency room with those pains, I would not
be here now. I wrote about my personal experience
because we need to be more informed about what a heart attack
can feel like.” Kempner is married to Harris “Shrub” Kempner, and she is the proud mother of two sons, Branch and Randall. The Saturday event will include dinner, dancing to The Line Up and a silent auction. For ticket information on the Black Tie & Boots Gala, please call Mary Jo Naschke at (409) 762-3930. Hyperlinks will work if this document is read Online
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