Lucille Silva has served for 26 years as a “Pink Lady” volunteer at Doctors Hospital of Manteca.“Lucille is a wonderful lady, a great person and should be celebrated,” said her co-volunteer Al Weissman who usually works the front counter outside the gift shop.Pinky Lady is the term of endearment used to describe the women volunteers with the Doctors Hospital of Manteca Auxiliary.Silva said she started out volunteering pm a part-time basis at the hospital in 1990. She had worked as a teller and a bank officer in the loan department of the former Central Valley Bank in downtown Manteca on the southwest corner of Yosemite and Maple avenues. She had been hired at Central Valley Bank by then manager Esther Thomas.Lucille and her husband William have two daughters Kathleen and Linda Kukesh.
Silva: A Pink Lady for 26 years