VENTURA : Donation to Help Furnish Libraries
Longtime Ventura residents Bill and Virginia Dunkle spent many hours working to improve their local public libraries. The couple, who died within several months of each other last year, helped found the local chapter of Friends of the Library, and Virginia Dunkle was the group’s first president.
Now, the Dunkles’ two children have donated more than $10,000 in their parents’ names to make the libraries more hospitable for users.
The $10,640 gift from William A. Dunkle of Danville and Ann D. Thompson of Ames, Iowa, to the E. P. Foster and H. P. Wright libraries is one of the largest gifts ever made to the Ventura libraries, officials said.
The money will be used to buy oak reading chairs, children’s tables, wooden display cases and other furniture for the two Ventura libraries.
Bill Dunkle was a retired district manager for Southern California Edison Co.
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