Inova Kellar Center Establishes Memorial Fund

The Arthur C. & Elizabeth Kellar Memorial Fund Ensures Treatment for Families in Need – (February 18, 2010)

Inova Kellar Center, a not-for-profit comprehensive mental health/substance abuse and Special Education School, has established a memorial fund in honor of the Kellar Family. The Arthur C. & Elizabeth Kellar Memorial Fund will ensure that treatment is provided to families without an ability to pay.

Picture L-R: Knox Singleton, CEO, Inova Health System; Judy Kellar Box; Mary Kellar, Rick Leichtweis, Ph.D, Senior Director, Inova Kellar Center

At a special reception February 16, 2010, daughters Judy Kellar Box and Mary Kellar helped to announce the fund and unveiled a new plaque in memory of their parents’ legacy.

In 1991, the Kellar Family Foundation and Inova Health System founded Inova Kellar Center. It provides structured and individualized mental health, substance abuse and special education programs to children, adolescents and their families. The program includes the Kellar School, a therapeutic day school providing an individualized educational program to middle and high school students with emotional, behavioral and/or learning disabilities.

Arthur Kellar, who died in 2007, was a Northern Virginia businessman and civic leader who built a multi-station broadcasting company. He founded EZ Communications Inc., which owned or operated 26 AM and FM stations across the U.S. Mr. Kellar and his wife, Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Kellar, who died in 2006, established the Kellar Family Foundation to support healthcare organizations, education, human services and the performing arts.