Ash Grove Healthcare Facility's Rocking Chair News July 2019

ASH GROVE HEALTHCARE FACILITY
Rocking Chair News
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Resident of the Month,
Hazel Whitted
Hazel Whitted was born Nov. 9, 1921, to par-
ents Andy and Mary Johnson in Douglas County,
as a home birth. Hazel had three siblings. She at-
tended school at Red Oak until the 8th grade.
Hazel met Joe Whitted and the couple married
in 1948. Together they celebrated 32 years of mar-
riage before Joe passed away in 1980. Joe was a
veteran of the Armed Forces. The couple lived in
Alaska for 7 years, Florida for 2 years and later
North Carolina. Hazel served as a housewife and a
babysitter for the family. Joe and Hazel didn’t have
a family of their own. The couple attended the
Southern Baptist Church.
“I grew up in Douglas county, Missouri, and
during haying season, when I was a teenager, the
women of the family would make lots of food to
feed the hay crew, so my job was to help Mom in
the kitchen peeling potatoes or doing whatever
needed to be done. We had a large kitchen so eve-
ryone was able to eat inside. We lived on a farm
and raised chickens, ducks, cattle and horses and
guineas. I would help do the harrowing using horse
power after the plowing was done, getting the field
ready to plant. We planted 10 acres of corn using a
hand held corn planter, a device that had a cup at
the top for the seeds and a metal pipe that went into
the ground and you squeezed out a seed. My hands
were so tired after planting. At harvest time we
would pick the corn by hand and put it in the horse
July 2019
Volume 23, Issue 7
Resident of the Month 1
Employee of the Year 1
Resident Photos 2
Fundraisers/Events 2
Calendar of Events 3
Special Care Calendar 5
Residents’ Birthdays 6
New Residents 6
Discharges 6
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Employee
of the Month
Congratulations Bobbie Woods,
CMT, on being named Ash
Grove Healthcare Facility’s
June Employee of the Month.
The Employee of the Month
for July has yet to be determined.
The individual who is selected
will be featured in the August
edition of the Rocking Chair
News.
drawn wagon. We used the corn for
animal feed and took some of it to
the mill to grind for stoneground
cornmeal,” said Hazel.
Hazel’s Favorite color is pink or
red, favorite dish is Fried fish, and
her favorite flower is pink and red
roses. Her motto for life has been
“Be the best you can be”.
Congratulations, Hazel, for being
selected as Resident of the Month.