Ash Grove Healthcare Facility's Rocking Chair News June 2020

ASH GROVE HEALTHCARE FACILITY June Birthday Sharon Highfill 6/20 Lestra Cameron 6/24 Randall Gaynor 6/27 Donna M Johnson 6/28 All Auxiliary volunteers have been asked to stay home at this time due to Covid-19 visitor restrictions. Admissions Freda Koch Lonetta Stump Ramona York Sympathy Ash Grove Healthcare Facility would like to extend our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of those who lost a loved one. Discharges Ramona York Rocking Chair News Rocking Chair News is a monthly publication for the residents and their families of Ash Grove Healthcare Facility. Gary Fulbright Beverly Derrickson Chris McBratney Gene Vestal Cathy Bird Ashley Tate Colleen Crump Danielle Cartwright Executive Director Chief Operating Officer LTC Director of LTC West Administrator Director of Nursing Office Manager/Activity Director Admissions Coordinator/ Director of Social Services Director of Environmental Services Kimberly Mooneyham Director of Nutritional Services David Daniels Director of Maintenance Rocking Chair News June 2020 Volume 23, Issue 6 Make Note! To register for the monthly AGHCF e-newsletter, please give us your email address. You may contact Ashley Tate in the business office at 417-751-2575 or send us a private message via our Facebook page. I n s i d e t h i s I s s u e 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 Look for Ash Grove Healthcare Facility on Facebook and be sure to “Like” us! We post photos weekly. Ash Grove Healthcare Facility is an affiliate of CMH, Bolivar, Mo. CMH’s facilities are not-for-profit organizations. Services are available without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability. Website: www.citizensmemorial.com. To be removed from this mailing list, please contact Citizens Memorial Hospital, 1500 North Oakland, Bolivar, MO 65613. Keeping Families Connected Parade AGHCF is located at 401 North Medical Drive, Ash Grove, MO 65604 • 417-751-2575 • citizensmemorial.com Betty Wagner was born Oct. 7, 1952, to parents Mary “Capps” and James Davis of Evansville, Indiana. Betty had one older brother and one older sister. Her parents both worked in factories. Her father was in the steel industry and her mother worked in a sewing factory. Betty remembers her mother and Aunt Rose bringing home scrap pieces of material. They would use these to sew clothes for the family. Betty attended several elementary schools between Indiana and Illinois. Eventually her family settled down in Chicago, Illinois. Betty attended Trumbull High School, graduating in 1966. After high school she met and married Daniel Wagner. The couple were married on May 1, 1971. They made their home in Redding, California. Together they had two daughters, Michelle and Tammy. Betty moved back to Chicago to live with her parents in the seventies. She worked at Lane Bryant selling women's clothing. Her and her daughters were members of a Baptist Church in Chicago. Her daughter Michelle grew up and moved to Popular Bluff and later Ash Grove, Missouri. Michelle and her husband were able to convince Betty to move with them. She has two granddaughters, Resident of the Month, Betty Wagner one grandson and five great-grand children. Betty’s hobbies include needle work, reading, listening to country music and rock n roll from the 50s and 60s. Betty’s advice to the youth is, “Be true to yourself. Treat others, especially your elders, with respect.” Congratulations, Betty, on being chosen as the Ash Grove Healthcare Facility’s Resident of the Month. Employee of the Month Quinn Holland, Charge Nurse, was chosen as Ash Grove Healthcare Facility’s Employee of the Month for May. The Employee of the Month for June has yet to be determined. The individual who is selected will be featured in the July edition of the Rocking Chair News. Fathers Day Social Friday, June 19 at 2 p.m. In the Activity Room.