Question: What is your strongest passion aside from your family and beliefs?
Answer: I love flowers. I gardened here for 16 years when I first moved here in 2000. The first week I was here, I got a call asking if I could take care of a flower bed outside of my windows. I started out with one little bed, and I ended up with 40 beds by the time I retired from doing it. I loved every day of it, and I was out there every day but Sunday taking care of it. My mother started me when I was about ten or eleven gardening. She had flower beds and she’d say, ‘Ruth, go out and dead-head the flowers.’ When I grew up and moved out, I lived in Creve Coeur and we had an acre there, as well as about six feet of flowers down by the road. People would stop by on their way to work and tell me, ‘I love coming by here. It gives me a good start to go to work just to see all these flowers.’ I feel God created everything – including you and I and flowers, too. I just thought it would be so nice for people to see the beauty of flowers. My favorite flower is the gardenia, which isn’t an annual or perennial. It’s a florist flower and I carried it in my wedding, so it’s special to me. My husband always gave me a gardenia for special occasions and whatnot. – Ruth Hinzpeter, Friendship Village Chesterfield
After gathering about 200 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!
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