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Archive for February, 2010

The long awaited day of the Grand Opening of our new office in Shelbyville, Tennessee has finally arrived. Our Director, Evelyn Coffey-Methvin, cut the ribbon on February 12, 2010 along with Becci Bookner. It was a day of excitement as we were welcomed into Shelbyville by the Chamber of Commerce and more than seventy-five business owners and guest. Family Staffing Solutions of Shelbyville has already received great reviews of our caregivers from our clients. We look forward to servicing Shelbyville with the same personal care and attention to our clients that Family Staffing Solutions has portrayed for the last 10 years throughout other areas.

Pictured: Mary Lou Fife with Maddie Schultzman, Mary Catherine Huffines, Judy Fife Mead, and Lou Ann Raetz

To reach the age of one hundred years is an amazing achievement.  We ate lunch with ten of these friends. That was pretty great!

Not only was our time entertaining, we learned some interesting things as well. One woman, who is one hundred and four, came to Texas in a covered wagon. She said it was a more reliable form of transportation back then and was easier to drive than a car.  She was driving her own car until she was ninety-nine and was traveling to Brazil and the Philippines four times in that same decade.

We enjoyed visiting with two men who were both from Ohio, both had graduated from University of Illinois, Urbana and graduated from there just two months apart, one in 1928 and one in 1930. Although they didn’t know each other previously, they made plans to get together again for dinner before the luncheon had ended. Those of us privileged to share this day with them knew that we were very blessed. Keep your eyes open in Dallas for more information and some wonderful photos in the Park Cities News.

I thought about what one hundred years of age means and I realized that most importantly, I am only half-way through my journey. From some of the discussions I overheard, the next half has a lot of surprises and a lot of love, too.

Thank you for reading these notes

From,

Nancy