Mary Jane Pike (79) passed away in North Carolina. She was here at PG from November 2012 till October 2014. She was young for PG, but had Alzheimers, so her passing would be a sweet release. Here’s a picture of Mary Jane with Waverley Pierson.
Dad (Jack) hasn’t recovered very well from the fall mentioned last month. He’s been in rehab most of the month and is now in a nursing home. Tomorrow (Nov 1) we will move him into a type B assisted living center in Conroe. PG is type A, which means we can do only limited “personal care”. Type B has much more care which Dad needs for now. We hope at some point he’ll be able to return to PG, time will tell. Here’s a picture of him in the nursing home with my sister Ronda, Kathy and myself.
I noted when updating the PG residents list for Mary Jane and Dad (link in the upper right corner of this blog), that of the 30 residents we’ve had, 9 are still here and only 3 others are still living (Dad, Clinton and Leah).
Ray Hoffmann and Herbie Barnett just stopped by for a quick supper on their way to visit Clinton Goff. Wayne and Dawn Overby joined us. Here they are with 8 of the 9 residents. Gilbert Reese had already gone to bed. The residents, up front are Della and Marybelle. In the back, Fern, Elton, Lois, John, Ronald and Alice.
Elton’s 102nd birthday was Oct 10th. His daughter, Cheryl Hutchinson and son David Cleveland came. Daughter Karen Cleveland was included from Columbia by Skype.
Cheryl’s 2 children, Matt and Elizabeth and Matt’s family, as well as Connecticut friends Gerry and Margaret Gunderson also came. Names are included with the pictures below.
8 of the 9 residents attended Georgetown convention. Gilbert Reese stayed at PG and Gloria Reese came from Minneapolis to stay with him. John and Lois also attended Mountain Peak. All the meetings from those 2 conventions could be heard over the speaker system at PG. Alice also listened to Georgetown Spanish.
After Texarkana convention Jeff Thayer, Sharon Carroll and Peggy Jansen visited. Jeff had a nice long visit with Clinton Goff in the nursing home in Conroe. It’s amazing how well Clinton could remember details about Jeff’s first year in the work (with Clinton), but he knows very little about the present.
Roger Ramsden visited after Mountain Peak. Here he’s with Dominique and Mimi Mille, and then visiting with the residents and Joyce Lawrence. He also had a good visit with Clinton (no picture). Joyce left Texas yesterday for North Carolina for a year.
Other visitors included Mary Macauley and Linda Hockaday, (with Lois), and Ruth Taplin (with Patty Maki).
Betty Braasch and Marilynn Frye visited, along with Jarlet and Yaneth Sanchez, their children and Yaneth’s mother. Also John, Dennis and Ginny Coker visited, shown with 6 residents.
Ronda and Kathleen Stancliff (with Della at Georgetown) and Ron and Bonnie Haptonstall (with Marybelle). Della’s daughter Della Mae and her grandson Jonathan visited Della.
2 young men are now working part-time at PG. Justin Bartz from Magnolia (north Houston field) is shown below with Salena and Jennifer. The other is Luis Rosas (no picture) from Pearland (south Houston field). Abigail Hoffman, who also works part-time and lives on the farm, turned 21.
Thanks,
Ken