Question: “What is a subject you care about and why?” Answer: “I care about history. It’s important because it’s where we all come from. It wasn’t as important to me when I was younger, but I’ve grown to be very interested in it. My favorite history area is World War 2, and recently I’ve been reading “Races of Aces” by John Bruning. It’s interesting and very informative. It talks about the Pacific theater and how the Japanese zero airplane wasn’t fast enough to keep up with the American’s mustang. When […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Question: What’s something you’re really good at that you’re proud of? Answer: “I guess, bookkeeping. I became a CPA (certified public accountant) and did it for fifty years. I never got referred to the State Board of Accountancy for anything. I spent eight years as St. Louis County auditor, and I was doing personal income tax preparation on the side. And generally speaking, I really have very little I regret not being able to do. Maybe since wife died, I think maybe I should have talked to her a little […]

“We have the perspective of how much worse it would be if we were on our own, in our house with someone having to bring groceries and all of that. If someone was hesitant to move here, I would say ‘Hey, this is temporary’. This is the greatest decision I’ve ever made. I mean, I totally love it.” – Friendship Village Chesterfield Resident Karen Krone As Friendship Village, along with the rest of the world, continues to face the challenges of living with and preventing the spread of COVID-19, we […]

“We were here a month and then COVID happened, but one of the really nice benefits has been Faust Park. It’s very easy for us to go out, walk across the street and enjoy the park. It’s an amazing park. It’s (Friendship Village Chesterfield) been a very positive experience for us. And I would recommend it to anybody. I have no feeling of it being unsafe here. We feel that what’s being done here, if anything, it might be overly safe. But we’ve been very pleased with the way things […]