November 3, 2020
Question: Tell me about a hobby you have that people may not know about. Answer: “I enjoy video editing and I’ve been working on it ever since I’ve had my Apple computer. I just enjoy doing it and I use it to record where we’ve been to travelling. I’ve done videos mostly of England, more than anywhere else. We’ve been to every continent, except Antarctica. And also I do family videos of when each of the grand kids turned sixteen, I did sweet sixteen videos for every one of them. […]
November 3, 2020
Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: Election Day! The political ads are over, on this Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020! Just a few updates on the COVID-19 situation at Friendship Villages today. On the Sunset Hills campus, one Independent Living resident has tested positive. They had not been roaming the campus and contract tracing leads us to believe that they acquired COVID-19 either from a visit to their doctor off campus or from a […]
November 2, 2020
Question: What is something you do that has been at the forefront of your life? Answer: “Sewing has been a big part of my life. I learned it from my grandmother and my mother. My grandmother would let me inch up to the sewing machine and sew my doll clothes and that’s what got me into it. I sewed my own clothes, I sewed my husband’s clothes, as well as my children and grandchildren. All our clothes were hand-made and my kids didn’t even know what store-bought clothes were! It […]
October 30, 2020
Question: How did you meet your wife? Answer: “I met my wife Marian on a blind date when I was home visiting from the Army. We went to a wedding where we knew no one. We ended up dancing all night. After the reception, we got a ride with someone who had too much to drink, but we didn’t know that at the time. He got pulled over and taken to the police station, so we had to go to the police station, too. Fortunately, Marian only lived thre blocks […]
October 30, 2020
Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Monday, October 30, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: At long last! We are expecting some sunshine at Friendship Villages on this cool Friday, October 30th, 2020. There has been some positive movement on a couple of fronts since last Monday’s update. On the Sunset Hills campus, there are no residents, at any level of care, who currently have tested actively positive for COVID-19. Our single resident in Assisted Living has successfully graduated from their recovery […]
October 29, 2020
Question: You had an interesting career in the service industry. Can you talk a little bit about that? Answer: “I worked with the Statistical Tabulating Corporation, who had their home office in Chicago and had a branch here in St. Louis downtown on Locust. I lived in Overland so I remember riding the Creve Coeur street car through University City to connect with the Delmar Loop and take that downtown to Broadway to get to the office. I worked a lot with the punch card system at Stat-Tabs. You could […]
October 28, 2020
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October 27, 2020
Click the story link below. Another Study Finds Potential Health Benefits to Living in a CCRC
October 26, 2020
Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Monday, October 26, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: It was a nice, cool fall weekend at Friendship Villages, leading us to this Monday, October 26th, 2020. There was little movement over the weekend with employees coming off quarantine and new ones going on quarantine, but we should see many of them returning to work by the end of this week. We had no additional Residents test positive at any level of care over the weekend […]