2018-2019 Daniel P. Sullivan Council 10208 of Hot Springs Village Family of the Year Bob and Mary Anne Honzik

A well deserves award for Bob and Mary Ann!! 

They are huge contributors to the success of Council 10208:
Spearheaded Council 10208’s  “Share-a-Chair” program, in which more than eighty living-room style chairs were donated, refurbished and delivered to the diocesan retreat center at Fletcher Hall in Little Rock; organized and ran the council’s annual “Taste of Faith” seminarian fundraiser for eight years with this year’s event raising $29,500.00; Bob is a past Grand Knight, current council Trustee and current Arkansas State Council Vocations Director; Mary Anne is the co-chair of the pricing committee for the council’s biennial “Treasure Sale” that benefits St. John’s School in Hot Springs and Our Lady of Fatima School in Benton raising over $8,000.00 for each school.  Bob is a high energy recruiter playing a big role in the steady growth of this Council’s membership in recent years; in this fraternal year with his initiative, council 10208 has sent $5,000.00 to the State Council for the Bishop’s newly announced “One Church” program to aid poverty stricken parishes in the Diocese of Little Rock; Bob and Mary Anne were the main drivers in our council’s “Priest’s Circle Initiative" motivating our members to raise over $7,000.00 to completely renovate the burial area.

Bob has been an active member of the Sacred Heart Parish Administration Council and an Usher for 16 years while Mary Anne is an Altar Server and Eucharistic Minister.  Bob sits on the Diocesan Board of Director’s for Seminarian Endowment Funding.  With his close relationship to Bishop Taylor, Bob and Mary Anne have hosted a Gala Christmas Party for the past nine years at their home that allows our parish members to develop a closer relationship with our future priests. Bob has been instrumental in organizing a very successful parish men’s retreat at the newly renovated diocesan retreat center at Fletcher Hall in Little Rock.  The Second Annual Retreat was held this past March.

In addition to all of the above, their involvement in the community includes: Sending cards and messages of sympathy to shut-ins, prepare and deliver meals to the sick, visit the sick at their homes or in the hospital and deliver food baskets to needy families at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Bob and Mary Anne have been retired many years and could be spending their time relaxing.  Instead, they constantly look for ways to use their leadership abilities to help other people in so many ways.  Council 10208 is a high-performance council, but this level of success doesn’t just happen.  It is a family like Bob and Mary Anne that inspires other Knight’s to extend themselves and go the extra mile for their fellow man.  Doing this every day eminently qualifies them to be honored as “Family of the Year?