Ash Grove Healthcare Facility's Rocking Chair News February 2020

ASH GROVE HEALTHCARE FACILITY
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February 2020
Volume 24, Issue 02
Inside this Issue
Resident of the Month 1
Employee of the Year 1
Resident Photos 2
Fundraisers/Events 2
Calendar of Events 3
Calendar 5
Residents’ Birthdays 6
New Residents 6
Discharges 6
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Resident of the Month,
Mildred Delk
Mildred Delk was born May 7,
1922, in a one room log house by the
Richwood Country School in Clever,
Missouri to parents Floyd and Jane
Wilson. Mildred attended the Rich-
wood School through the 8th grade.
Mildred met Bobby Delk and they
married on Nov. 10, 1945. The couple
made their home in Springfield, Mis-
souri for a while until they moved to
the farm in Everton, Missouri. They
eventually built a home in the west
part of Everton.
Mildred worked in the lingerie
department of the Dixie Shop in
Springfield where she dressed the
manikins for the store and that is
where she met Bobby Delk. It was a
love at first sight meeting and they
were shortly married thereafter.
Mildred has three children: Benny Delk of Kansas
City, Missouri; Dennis and Robbie Delk of Greenfield,
Missouri; and Roger Delk of Everton. Mildred has three
grandchildren and three great-grand children. Mildred
and Bobby celebrated sixty years together. Bobby
passed away in 2005.
Mildred attended the Liberty Baptist and Everton
Baptist Churches. She likes spending time at her home
and you might have seen her out in her yard doing lawn
work and growing flowers and working in the poultry
barn where they raised chickens.
Mildred’s hobbies include quilting, games, word
search, listening to country and gospel music and card
games.
Mildred’s favorite colors are blue and pink. Her fa-
vorite food is homemade hot rolls! Her best friend was
Ida Mae Hensley. Her favorite flower is the red rose.
Mildred’s motto is “To witness to someone about the
Lord.” She loves to visit with her friends and family.
“One time when it was snowing and Bobby had gone
to work, we were expecting to have a cow to calve that
day and I was to keep watch and bring the calf into the
warm. That day there were four new calves born so I
got all four of them into the house and got them warmed
up until Bobby got home and told me they had to get
those calves back out to their mamas so they would
claim them,” said Mildred. What a time that was in the
life of a farm wife!
Congratulations, Mildred Delk, for being chosen as
February’s Residents of the Month for Ash Grove
Healthcare Facility!
Employee
of the Month
Pamela
Gooch, Nursing
Congratulations, Pam Gooch, on being
chosen as Ash Grove Healthcare Facili-
ty’s January Employee of the Month.
Pam was selected by her peers for her
dedication to AGHCF and to our resi-
dents. The Employee of the Month
for February has yet to be determined. The
individual who is selected will be fea-
tured in the March edition of the Rock-
ing Chair News.
(Above) Pam Gooch with her daughter and two
grand daughters at our recent holiday luncheon.