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Testimonials
Martha's Story:
Martha grew up as a middle child in a family of nine on a
farm Midwest. She left home at 16 to be a nanny to a
prominent local family. At nineteen she moved to New York
and took a job as a waitress at a restaurant near a large
university. She eventually married a student she met there.
They led a long and happy life together, raised their three
children in comfortable circumstances, and assumed they
would live out their lives together in their own home.
Martha’s secure life was shattered one
day in her 70th year by a phone call from a local hospital.
The doctor on the other end of the phone line told her that
her husband of nearly fifty years has suffered a massive
heart attack on the golf course and had died before he could
be taken to the hospital.
Martha was now alone in a large house. A
long-standing vision problem had prevented her from driving
for several years. Her only daughter was now living in Texas
and was worried about her mother living alone so far away.
Arrangements were made, and Martha moved
into assisted living three miles from her daughter’s home
where she has lived for the last 15 years. Martha recently
celebrated her 95th birthday by going on a shopping trip
with her resident friends at the facility.
She has found the assistance she needed
and new friends, activities, and interests to add meaning
and even growth to her golden years.
Read another testimonial:
Sam and Ethel's story
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