Ash Grove Healthcare Facility's Rocking Chair News July 2020

ASH GROVE HEALTHCARE FACILITY
Rocking Chair News
July
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AGHCF is located at 401 North Medical Drive, Ash Grove, MO 65604 • 417-751-2575 • citizensmemorial.com
2020
Volume 24, Issue 7
I n s i d e t h i s I s s u e
Resident of the Month,
Carl Copenhaver
Carl Copenhaver was born July 10, 1929,
in Ameagle, West Virginia, in a coal mining
town to parents Ben and Georgie Copenhaver.
Carl’s father worked in the coal mines for 40
years. Carl had ten siblings. He attended
school at Clear Fork in West Virginia then two
years at trade school in Los Angeles, California.
On Jan. 31, 1964, he was married to Opal.
Together the couple made their home in Bois
D’Arc, Missouri, on a 20 acre farm where he
raised Herford and Black Angus Cattle.
Carl worked two years in the coal mines
and decided that wasn’t for him, so at the age
of 18 he traveled to Detroit, Michigan, where
he worked at a metal plating shop earning
$800 in about a year. With that he bought a car
and drove to L.A. to attend a trade school
learning how to work on circuit boards for the
first General Electric computer. Later he was
transferred from L.A. to Springfield and was
one of five men that started Litton Industries.
Carl was a supervisor there for forty years. He
also built the circuit boards for the Gemini
Space program. Carl and Opal have a family
of five children, eleven grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren.
Carl enjoyed trout fishing at Taneycomo,
Tablerock, Stockton and Truman Lake. He
likes to watch the Rams play. Carl toured several
National Parks and the San Francisco Zoo.
He has traveled to 48 states, Canada and Mexico.
He loved to host fish fries for his family
and friends. He is a member of the Bois D’Arc
Baptist Church. He likes country music, big band
music, easy listening and bluegrass music. Carl
enjoyed watching one of his granddaughters preform
with a local music group at Ash Grove
Healthcare Facility.
Carl’s son, Ron, recalls that when they were
salmon fishing in Alaska Carl had landed a salmon
on the bank and a mama grizzly bear came
along and wasn't 3 feet away and took that salmon
with no argument from Carl!
Congratulations, Carl, for being selected as
Resident of the Month!
Employee
of the Month
Congratulations Anita Bice,
Charge Nurse, 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