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Hazel Sorrell is one of North Carolina's living treasures. This eighty–six–year–old mother of eight is founder of the Benson Children's Home and has been voted North Carolina Mother of the Year and Retired Educator of the Year. But perhaps her greatest challenge came when she moved to Wilson and established an interfaith group to help families cope with Hurricane Floyd. She was interviewed in her Atlantic Beach vacation home in August 2002.

"We had one man that came to us and pulled a FEMA check out of his pocket for a hundred sixty–eight dollars. His house was sitting beside Contentnea Creek and was completely flooded. I don't understand why he only got a check for a hundred sixty–eight dollars. We had to do his roof, his floors, his walls, his bathroom—everything was just flooded out. We helped those folks who had fallen through the cracks and just didn't get help from anywhere."