GoFundMe Campaign Started to Help George McKnight, Who Ran Fairbanks Photo in Darien

After Family Tragedies, GoFundMe Campaign Set Up for Poth Family

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For about 30 years, from the late 1980s to about 2011, George McKnight ran Fairbanks Photo in downtown Darien, where “I think every kid in Darien worked at one point or another.” George, now living in South Salem, New York needs to get some dental work to help him smile for photos. The dentistry he needs isn’t covered by his insurance and costs $5,000. A GoFundMe.com campaign has been started to help raise funds for it. In retirement, George says he spends a lot of his time going to doctor’s appointments and puttering around on his computer, looking up information online.

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The Poth family, formerly longtime Darien residents, has been going through two traumatic incidents, with the death of Christopher Poth earlier this month and an accident involving his daughter, Charlotte, late last year. Now a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help family members with medical expenses, funeral costs and basic everyday needs. “Chris did not have life insurance, and the family is inheriting the debts he carried,” family friend Mary Manning wrote on the GoFundme.com website. “I am asking all of those who know and love the Poths to help them get through this terrifying time in their lives.” Christopher Poth’s obituary provided a link to the GoFundMe campaign, which was first posted on Wednesday, and as of early Sunday afternoon had raised less than $1,000 of its $65,000 goal.