A little over a year ago, financial advisor Christopher Bentley was ready to leave for a long-prepared for ski trip when he received a life-changing phone call. Bentley, a private wealth advisor and vice president of Bentley, Kroyer & Associates, an advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services in Wayzata, Minn., had planned for nearly a […]
Approximately 1,000 Twin Cities women are widowed each year, but that statistic didnt hit home fully for Chris Bently of St. Louis Park until a personal tragedy struck. in 2017, Bentley’s colleague Dave Laurion died of heart attack at age of 62, leaving Dave’s wife, Liane, to pick up the pieces.
One of the highlights during our 2020 Annual Benefit was announcing the very first recipient of our Volunteer of the Year Award. Liane Laurion is our 2020 Volunteer of the Year. Wings for Widows has nearly 30 volunteers today, but Liane was our very first volunteer. In fact, Liane and her husband David were the inspiration […]
More than 1,000 women in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., area are widowed every year, says advisor Chris Bentley. So last year he created a way to help those women by offering them a service with the help of CFPs, as well as financial, legal and emotional support. Now he wants to spread that service across […]
Word came by phone, delivered by a stranger I never did meet. Nine years ago, my husband, the father of four, died in a hospital emergency room after efforts to coax his heart back into service fell short. In an instant I joined the club to which no woman wants to belong, though roughly 11 […]
