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Fort Worth Center For Deaf Closing Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

January 24, 2017<\/p>\n

FORT WORTH (CBS11) \u2013 For decades, the Goodrich Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing helped those in a silent world, live life out loud.<\/p>\n

A handwritten sign posted on the doors at the 2500 Lipscomb Street building in Fort Worth announced its impending closure.<\/p>\n

After Friday, January 27, the center will be no more.<\/p>\n

At a final meeting Tuesday inside the building, longtime board members explained the circumstances to the people who use the facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately the funding has dwindled down to where we can no longer support this organization,\u201d said A.B. Lampkin.<\/p>\n

Lampkin and his wife Dorothy have been with the nonprofit center since its inception.<\/p>\n

Founded in the 1970\u2019s by Fort Worth philanthropist Maurine Goodrich, the location provided services and referrals for a community with few resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were coming up with poor jobs, lesser pay, and we did everything we could to increase their standing,\u201d said A.B. Lampkin.<\/p>\n

It was space for socializing as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the deaf, it\u2019s a place to come and socialize and meet other people. They\u2019re living in a very silent world,\u201d said volunteer David Edmondson.<\/p>\n

Countless friendships blossomed in the building. Edmondson, who was struggling with hearing loss later in life, met his wife Sharon there.<\/p>\n

At the time, Sharon was volunteering at the front desk. She had turned to the location for help after losing her own hearing at age 60.<\/p>\n

David asked her if she knew anything about cochlear implants.<\/p>\n

\u201cTa-da,\u201d she said, showing him the cochlear implants she had just had put in.<\/p>\n

The rest is history. The two became friends, and would later get married in the garden of the center that brought them together.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are going to be thousands of people lost without this center,\u201d Sharon lamented.<\/p>\n

Dorothy Lampkin said one of the options the board is considering is selling the property and using funds to provide grants to individuals in need of cochlear implants.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like losing a family member. After you lose a family member, you do your best to move on. That\u2019s what we\u2019re doing,\u201d said Mrs. Lampkin.<\/p>\n

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