Photos of the 2009 Matteo Memorial Golf Outing

Thank you to our volunteers, sponsors, golfers, dinner guests, friends and family. Your support helped us to raise $33,000 for the Northern Ohio Hemophilia Foundation!

Foursomes and Hole Sponsorship Opportunities Still Available

A History of our Purpose

The first Ron & Tim Matteo Memorial Golf Outing was held in July of 1991 to honor the memory of my two sons. Ron and Tim were born with hemophilia, a hereditary blood disorder that prohibits normal blood clotting. What is a simple bump or cut to most can cause serious problems for hemophiliacs until they are treated with the products available to aid in blood clotting. As was the case with my son Ron, many hemophiliacs subsequently become immune to blood clotting medicines creating an even more serious situation.

Ron died in 1988 at the age of 19 due to an uncontrolled bleeding episode. Tim died in 1990 at the age of 18 due to AIDS, which he contracted from his blood clotting treatments.

My husband, Carmen, and I were devoted to caring for our sons through all of their bleeding episodes. Since the deaths of Ron and Tim, we, along with our most loving and supportive family, wanted to continue to direct our energy to caring for boys with hemophilia.

The funds donated to the Northern Ohio Hemophilia Foundation have been used to pay for the many needs of its members, including medical bills, summer camp and household expenditures. In the seventeen years that we have been hosting this event, we have donated over $400,000.00 to the Foundation. It has been a difficult but rewarding experience.

Those of you that are new to our outing may be unaware of the strong bond between Ron and Tim and their dad. On August 29, 2000 Carmen was reunited with the boys after losing a battle with Leukemia, ironically another blood disorder. It has been, and always will be, very difficult without him.

The Northern Ohio Hemophilia Foundation has since established the Carmen S. Matteo Memorial Assistance Fund. All of our donations support this fund and are used to help families in the Northeast Ohio area.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support.

Janice