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Sophie Kelly Rieger was born May 21, 1922, in Hemphill, near Welch, in McDowell County, West Virginia, to Frances and John Kelly. Sophie was very proud of her Polish heritage and oftentimes said, “We were Polish people.” She especially liked her mother’s homemade cabbage rolls.
The nonprofit health care provider is working to emerge from what a civil lawsuit filed earlier this year called a years-long, widespread fraud that wrongly steered millions to contractors and former officials.