OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — It’s a major donation that meant so much to Corinne Mosher, the widow of fallen Overland Park Police Officer Mike Mosher.
Sew KC donated 1,000 thin blue line masks packed together in two boxes. They dropped the boxes off at the Overland Park Police Department headquarters on Saturday, where they met up with Corinne.
She told 41 Action News the outpouring of support for her family over the past week has been amazing.
"The community pulled out all the stops,” Corrine said. "The truth of the matter is, we won’t be able to have the services that Mike deserves and that the officers want to give us and the community wants to give him without these. So we had a unique challenge trying to come up with, ‘How do we honor Mike in the time of COVID?’”
The masks will be worn by Overland Park police officers as they attend the various ceremonies in the coming days to honor Officer Mosher.
"My heart is full of so much gratitude because you’re helping honor Mike and bringing the community together as well, and so these are so wonderful,” Corrine said as she accepted the donations from Sew KC owner Michele Dawbarn.
To make the quantity of masks needed, Sew KC employees have been working around the clock.
“To have a message behind it like this and to see the community come together with, not just Sew KC, but other makers in the community, all making masks for such an important cause has been a very humbling moment for all of us,” Dawbarn said.
It’s a community that Mike always tried to give back to, according to Corinne.
"A cop's cop. He was a wonderful father, he was a best friend and sometimes he was a one-man wrecking ball,” Corrine said, “but he knew how to talk to people, he knew how to bring people together and his mission was to serve.”
Seeing people was in Mike’s blood, and it’s also Corinne’s message to the community.
"Be like Mike,” Corrine said, “because Mike used caring as an action word, and in this time of COVID, where many, many awful things are happening, there’s some positive things and one of them is that we’re being, we’re looking around now to see who needs help and how we can help them. And that’s what Mike did already.”
Sew KC is making more thin blue line masks that can be purchased for $15, with part of the proceeds going to the Mosher family.
Other members of the community also are helping make masks in honor of Officer Mosher.
