Car show will honor memory of horse lover

Friday, June 25, 1999 | 10:26 a.m.

The Next Level Car Club will hold a benefit car show Sunday in remembrance of Debbie Ann Stolo, who was found dead in her wrecked car March 13 after she had been missing for more than a month.

The club is hoping to raise $10,000 to purchase two horses for children at the New Vista Ranch, a residential community for the disabled.

Stolo was known as a horse lover and had two horses that she kept at Winrock Farms. The benefit will also serve as closure for her friends and family, Doug Shane, Stolo's friend and owner of the ranch, said.

"She was a real sweet lady," Shane said. "Everyone who knew her was a friend of hers."

The benefit will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Signs Inc. at the corner of Sunset and Pecos roads in the Gateway Business Park.

All money from the benefit will go to the horses, including entry costs for the show, sales from T-shirts featuring Stolo's picture and raffles.

Raffle prizes include CDs, videos, pay-per-view coupons from Cox Cable, window tints, a color TV and a factory paint job and spoiler from Desert Dodge.

Family and friends realized Stolo's disappearance Feb. 4. Her car was found on Mount Charleston, spotted by sightseers.

The Next Level Car Club raises money for children's charities.