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 […]

“I’m blessed to be here. They take very good care of us. The food is very good. And they’re very careful about who comes in. If you have children, being here relieves them of having to worry that we’re being taken care of. My children are so thankful that my husband and I moved in here. Friendship Village is protecting us. And I don’t think everybody out there is protected as well as we are.” – Ellie Kaiser, Friendship Village Sunset Hills Resident As Friendship Village, along with the rest […]

“When the virus came up, one of the issues was, we were quarantining at home, so where could we go? We didn’t want to go out to a restaurant, but we had to do our grocery shopping and to the hardware store, which we were reluctant to do. So, when we came over here, we felt more safe and secure here because they provided meals for us and we didn’t have to grocery shop. Anything we wanted done for us was done. If something in the apartment needed fixed, we […]