The first order of business in fulfilling DeLawder’s wishes is a $540,000 gift to the Elizabethton Carter County Animal Shelter. This gift will be put towards constructing an expansion for the shelter’s holding areas for dogs and cats, and a new van for transporting the shelter’s animals to off-site adoption events, and clinics for spaying and neutering. Here’s the mayor again: Math experts already know that the DeLawder estate’s $540,000 gift leaves almost half a million left for the animals of Carter County, and it remains to be seen exactly how and when that additional money will be spent. But, as Glenda DeLawder wanted it, it won’t be on any spoiled relatives (or pets, for that matter), but instead the animals of her hometown that need it the most.
