Bay, Serta, Ashley furnish soldier's home
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, January 24, 2005
Homewood, Ill. — Bay Furniture, with the support of Serta and Ashley, will donate all the bedding, furniture and accessories needed to furnish a new home built for the family of an injured soldier whose wife gave birth to quintuplets.
Sgt. Josh Horton of Oswego, Ill., is recovering from injuries suffered while serving in Iraq and remains hospitalized in the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
While in Iraq, Horton's wife, Taunacy, gave birth to quintuplets. One of the quintuplets has died, but the four survivors, two boys and two girls, are all doing well. The Hortons had two children before the quintuplets were born.
The new home is being built free for the Hortons by Wiseman-Hughes Homes of Wheaton, Ill. It is being furnished with Serta bedding and Ashley furniture, provided by Bay Furniture, a Top 100 chain with six stores in metro Chicago. To surprise the family, the project was kept secret until the last minute.
"We're honored to have this opportunity to contribute to such a worthwhile cause," said Larry Slovy, owner of Bay along with his father, Barry Slovy, and his brother, Rick Slovy. "All of us at Bay Furniture were extremely moved by this extraordinary story of sacrifice and duty. We're just happy we can help in some way."
