Question: What is something that’s been important in your life?
Answer: “Once thing has been the way I grew up. When I was born, my father was in the U.S. Air Force, so throughout my life, we traveled, and every two years we moved. So, we lived in twelve different homes growing up and I went to eight different schools (three different high schools). My life was pretty different in that sense. But travelling has been part of my life forever. So, I traveled a lot with my family growing up and my husband and I have traveled a lot. So, collectively, I have tallied up sixty-three countries that I’ve been to. Most of those have been with Bob (her husband Bob Brockhaus). Four of those countries were when I was growing up, but the rest have been with Bob. And those have been many times just on our own, but frequently it has been with our consulting business, so we’ve traveled internationally with that. Since we’ve been here at Friendship Village, we’ve continued to travel. We travel a lot to Colorado and Florida in the winter and summer. And we’ve traveled to Israel since we’ve been here at Friendship Village and we’ve traveled to Iceland since we’ve been here. We had our 50th wedding anniversary this summer and our plan was to go to Croatia for a month, but we’re going to have to put that one on hold. But, I guess one of the things that has been important in guiding my life is the simple phrase ‘Value what you do. Do what you value.’ So, that’s always driven me in everything I’ve done. – Joyce Brockhaus, resident Friendship Village Sunset Hills
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The above photo and text are part of a year-long project we call We Are Friendship Village. We are posting these photos and brief interviews to our website’s blog section every day as we talk with residents at Friendship Village Chesterfield and Friendship Village Sunset Hills. The idea is to give a short introduction to the residents who make up our wonderful senior living communities and give you a peek at something you might not know about them!
After a year of gathering interviews and photos, we will publish A BOOK featuring all the great residents who participated. AND PARTICIPANTS get A FREE COPY OF THE BOOK! During this year, we will also be sharing these photos and stories on Facebook and other social media such as Instagram, so look for them and please follow the hashtag #WeAreFriendshipVillage to stay current with the project!
We think it’s a great chance to share a bit about who we are! Residents’ participation takes less than ten minutes, so it won’t take much time to be a part of it and we think everyone will enjoy getting to know their neighbors and friends a little bit better!
If interested in participating (or know someone else who might be), feel free to give us a call at (314) 270-7837 or email at nagysteve@fvstl.com or drop by the marketing suites in Sunset Hills or Chesterfield. We have 365 of these to do over the course of the year, so everyone is welcome!
We look forward to seeing you as we get to share insights about the senior living residents who are making our Friendship Village retirement communities so great!
Thanks again!