This friendly, down-to-earth couple is offering their spacious home – and a home tour – to the party who wins the private dinner at auction on Sept. 26. It’s the third of five exclusive dinner parties to be auctioned at Bob Miller’s 90th Birthday celebration, the April Designer Showhouse Ball 2020. Proceeds will support the Community Rescue Mission.

Landy’s warm personality shows in the tablescape she and designer/event producer Earl Douglas created together. Her Hearth & Heart Stoneware and Reed & Barton silver are juxtaposed with a harvest basket centerpiece and eclectic candle pedestals made from vintage, turned-wood table legs. 

They’ve lived in this comfortable, welcoming  home at Avalon in Chaffee Crossing for only two years, Landy said, and love its wide-open gathering spaces centered around her kitchen. “It’s not a formal dining room at all,” she said. “I’m not a formal person.”  She and Bennie love having a houseful of children and grandchildren.

The Westphals bought the house from the late Eric Morrison, who was a friend of their family. Morrison, a firefighter and homebuilder, had been building the home for his own family when cancer tragically shortened his life. Landy found the house. Bennie was won over by the surrounding woods, preserved by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission. 

The catered dinner served at their friendly table will be prepared by Taliano’s. The winning bidders are invited to host their own guests at meals catered in the donors’ dining rooms, event producer Earl Douglas explained. Tickets for Bob Miller’s 90th Birthday Celebration, $100 per person, are sold at 479-226-9530 or by check to Community Rescue Mission, P.O. Box 607, Fort Smith, AR 72902.