WARREN — After being in existence since the 1940s, the Trumbull County Medical Society Alliance has disbanded and donated more than $7,000 in remaining funds to Trumbull Mobile Meals.

The donation was made Monday at the Trumbull Mobile Meals office in Warren. The alliance was the group that started Mobile Meals.

Jean Schlect, one of Mobile Meals founders and a member of the medical society alliance, said the funds are what was left from the alliance. She said the organization does not have the membership to continue as many spouses of doctors are working as well.

Christine Kuklinca of the society and hospital auxiliary and also a Mobile Meals volunteer, said there was an announcement over the summer that Trumbull Regional Medical Center was planning to close and then that changed.

“The hospital gift shop closed right after the announcement that the hospital would be closing. We had a huge inventory and put everything on sale. There was later an announcement that someone came in and the hospital would stay open, but we had already made the decision to close,” Kuklinca said.

She said the gift shop opened in the 1950s.

Schlect said the check presentation was ”the final last part of the legacy” for the alliance.

She said members of the alliance also helped as drivers and packed meals for the senior-based agency.

“The alliance has also been a big contributor to Trumbull Mobile Meals,” Schlect said.

Audrey Novotny, Mobile Meals CEO, said the donation will be dedicated to the building fund with an expansion planned to begin in 2025.

“This donation will be put to good use. We have a lot of plans for here,” she said.

Mary Beth Rawa, a past president and treasurer of the medical alliance, said the alliance in the mid-1990s established the Trumbull County Domestic Violence Task Force and provided educational programs for police and other groups.

Rawa said other fundraising helped the Children’s Rehabilitation Center in Howland and cancer programs for children.

She said various fundraisers, such as dances, have helped raise thousands of dollars.

“We will continue helping Mobile Meals. The members have always helped and for many of them, it is part of their life,” Schlect said.

The alliance members helped with the basket raffle fundraiser to benefit Mobile Meals.

“These ladies worked and worked and put all those baskets together. That was our main fundraiser and what they have done has helped,” said Lucy Zinz, Mobile Meals board chairwoman.

Marjorie Dangaran, the alliance’s last president, said the group started as the Trumbull County Medical Society Auxiliary and then became the Trumbull County Medical Society Alliance.

“The membership was the spouses of people who had someone in their family who was an MD,” Schlect said.

Officials said Mobile Meals will have served 500 people by the end of the year.