Our History
“I have begun my work. I have two boys, ages six and seven.”
This message—written by Oak Park’s Mary Wessels on a postcard addressed to a friend in 1897—is one of the few remaining records of Hephzibah’s beginnings more than a century ago.
Not long after Wessels sent this postcard, a local orphanage was destroyed by fire and she opened her home and her heart to a dozen more children. She named her fledgling children’s home “Hephzibah,” after her own mother.
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Hephzibah Honors Durpetti Family with Heart of the Home Award
Heart of Gold Winners Mary and Bill DiSomma Honored at Heart of Gold Ball 2021
Hephzibah’s Annual Report 2020
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