2026 Fran Gerrett Memorial Golf Classic - Friday, April 10
2025 Golf Classic Attracts Record Breaking Sell-Out Crowd and Surpasses Fundraising Goal
More than 70 sponsors, 61 teams, 212 players and dozens of volunteers participated
in the annual two-course Jess Parrish Medical Foundation (JPMF) Fran Gerrett
Memorial Golf Classic on Friday, April 4, at Indian River Preserve Golf
Club and The Great Outdoors Golf Club. Since 2011, the tournament has
raised more than $850,000.
The law firm of Zumpano Patricios presented the 18-hole scramble for the
eleventh consecutive year. JPMF hosted another sell-out crowd at this
year’s tournament and exceeded its fundraising goal of $75,000,
raising more than $85,000 to benefit The Children’s Center (TCC),
a service of Parrish Healthcare, and one-stop childhood development resource
center. TCC provides a safe and healing environment for special needs
and typically developing children to learn and grow, along with an array
of health, education and human services under one roof.
The annual golf tournament lives on as a tribute to Fran Gerrett’s
longtime dedication to our community and his favorite charity, The Children’s
Center. Fran, a former Parrish Medical Center Materials Management Director,
was famous for saying, “It’s all about the kids!”
Taking home top honors were the men’s division first-place teams
of Tim Fields, Jeff Marr, Mike Pavick and Jason Snodgrass at The Great
Outdoors, and Tommy Bradford, Chase Freeman, Grant Matzen and Eric Silva
at Indian River Preserve Golf Club. The mixed division first-place teams
included the foursomes of Nick Cerrato, Tim Liston, Jordan Pemberton and
Kyle Pemberton at Indian River Preserve, and Lynne Anderson, Harold Gero,
John Gero and Susan Jensen at The Great Outdoors. Claire Charron, Kathy
Myer, Jeanne O’Bryan and Toni Thigpin took top women’s division
honors at the Great Outdoors. Closest to the Pin honors were awarded to
Rhonda Bradfield and Greg Gilkey.
The tournament planning committee included members Leigh Spradling (event
chair), Santi Bulnes, Anita Currie, Tammy Hebert, Nadine Itani, Kathy
Myer, Jeff Riley, Joe Rodriguez, Christie Rimsky, Kathy Simonsen, Greg
Sparkman and Kristina Weaver.
Winner of the $1,000 chance drawing was Chris Broome.
Our sincerest thanks to the sponsors, players, volunteers and course partners
that helped make this year’s Fran Gerrett Memorial Golf Classic
a success. We are grateful for the overwhelming community support. THANK
YOU for helping us live our vision of Healing Families—Healing Communities®!
