 Her later years were consumed with raising funds for a historic restoration, the Heritage Center Museum, in Plymouth, Ohio, the Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers Concert of Arias, and a continuation of fund raising for Orbis International initiated by her husband.The Orbis International DC-10 converted to a "state of the art" eye hospital provides care for surgically correctable eye disease.It brings unique and technically demanding eye surgery to many third world countries and also functions as a classroom to teach local physicians and health care providers techniques to prevent blindness.