I’ve added new friends!
Earlier, I’m pretty sure I mentioned that my old friends seem to be becoming more important to me. That’s true! But that doesn’t mean that I can’t add new friends! At the lunch following Gertie Hughes’ Memorial Service, Pat and I did just that!
The Community Center was crowded and there were only a few places left at the tables. We found a table with empty spaces and a young couple and child already seated. We asked if we might join them; they said, “Yes!”
Photo of the original Mayo Clinc,
the Plummer Building.
We soon found out that we were sitting with Caleb and Kristin(?) Dyck and Jameson, 2. He has been employed by Mayo Clinic for some time and has just graduated as a Registered Nurse. He’ll continue at Mayo and will switch from being a nurse assistant to an RN the end of July. Christine is pleased that she can be a stay at home mom.
They live in what I know as the Shoemaker house, which is a few houses south of the home of Eddie and Gertie Hughes.
We believe the Lime Springs community and Mayo Clinic and its patients will be better off with the Dyck family as part of their communities. We’re pleased to count them as new friends!
Renewing Friendships
Also at the lunch, a lady came up to me and called me by name. I had no idea who she was, yet she seemed to know me.
It was Jean Gassett Stopperan, daughter of Neil and Dorothy Gassett and sister of the late Judy. I hadn’t seen her for probably 60 years! The last time might have been when when she got off the school bus as a early grade school student and I was a senior.
How’d she know me, you might wonder? She recognized me from The Lime Springs Page, which she reads at least occasionally!
We also met her at Evans Home, as we went to wish her mother a belated Happy Birthday, as she had celebrated her 90th birthday just a few days earlier. That’s when I got to meet Jean’s husband, Bill Stopperan, originally from Cresco. They live in Windsor, Colorado. Another new friend!
And it goes on: Jean also introduced us to Marcia Barclay Turvold and her husband. Although I didn’t know Marcia in LS, I certainly knew her parents, Marion and Betty Barclay. Her family lived directly north of my parents after they moved off the farm and into town.
Even more new friends!