Question: What has been a primary interest of yours?
Answer: “Any kind of music. I like to listen to it and perform it. On Monday mornings at the coffee hour I’ll sing about three songs solo every couple of weeks. I love to sing and have the stereo on a lot. So long as I’m able, I’ll sing. I almost majored in music and sometimes I wish I would’ve. It started when I was just a baby. My mother and my father sang all the time. They sang duets a lot in church and I just loved it. We had a cottage at the lake and whenever we’d go to the lake with friends, we’d always sing in the car the entire way. It was just a family thing. Even from the birds and nature and all, music has just been a major part of my life. The world would be so quiet without music.” – Mary Jo Sortland, resident Friendship Village Chesterfield
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The above photo and text are part of our new year-long project we’re calling We Are Friendship Village. We are posting these photos and 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 snapshot 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!
At year’s end, 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 text on Facebook and other social media such as Instagram, so look for them and please follow the hashtag #WeAreFriendshipVillage to stay up to date!
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 bit better!
If you are 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 meeting with you as we get to share about the senior living residents who are making our Friendship Village retirement communities so wonderful!
Thanks again!