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Guests hunt for Easter eggs at a charity event for Reed White at the home of Karen Tepera Franklin and Tod Franklin in East Dallas, April 4.
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For 6-year-old Reed White, Easter comes a bit early every year.
Diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy — a rare, incurable disease found only in boys — White is the reason for an annual Easter egg hunt and party at the East Dallas home of Karen Tepera Franklin and her husband, Tod Franklin.
This year on April 4, plenty of friends and neighbors came to have fun and help a good cause.
The third year to raise money to help find a cure for Reed's disease, the egg hunt has been a neighborhood tradition for the last nine years.
"I went to Shelley [White] and asked what she thought about making the Easter egg hunt a fundraiser for Reed, and she just looked at me and went ‘That's great,' " Karen Tepera Franklin said.
With about 14,000 eggs to find, some filled with money and others filled candy and toys, the event built up a big following. Luckily, Tod Franklin and his horde of helpers had that covered. They served more than 400 hot dogs, bags of snacks, countless coolers full of drinks, and offered two kegs and a Margarita machine for the adults.
