Life Insurance.
As a young insurance agent, Mark Wandall didn’t
needed to be convinced to buy life insurance.
But even Mark would be amazed at
all that the insurance has meant for his wife,
Melissa, and for many other
people he never met.
Mark was just 30 when he was killed in an auto accident less than a mile from
his Bradenton, Fla., home.
He was the passenger in a car that was broadsided by
a driver who ran a red light. He died less than a week after celebrating his
first wedding anniversary and just 19 days before the birth of his daughter,
Madison Grace.
The life insurance has allowed Melissa to remain in the family home, take
time off from her career so she can be a full-time mom, and put money into a
college fund for Madison Grace.
The insurance has also given Melissa the opportunity to keep Mark’s spirit
alive through two important causes. She formed the Mark Wandall Foundation to
raise money for worthy causes in her community. She also is the driving force
behind a citizens’ coalition pushing for a new state law, the Mark Wandall
Traffic Safety Act, that would stiffen criminal penalties for red-light running.
"Melissa is making a difference in the community and in the state of Florida,"
says Joseph St. Onge, ChFC, a family friend who worked with Mark at John Hancock
Financial Network.
Life insurance has provided Melissa with options that wouldn’t otherwise have
been available to a young, single mother. "Without it, I don’t think I would
have the time or the energy to put into the foundation and the coalition," says
Melissa. "It has allowed me to do these things and to be at home with my
daughter."
