Butterfield Residential Care Center's Butterfield Express September 2019
Butterfield
EXPRESS
Volume 30, Issue 9
September 2019
Butterfield Residential Care Center is an affiliate of CMH, Bolivar, Mo., 417-326-6000
Facility Location: 1120 N. Butterfield Rd., Bolivar, MO 65613, 417-326-5200
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Resident of the Month 1
Activity Photos 2
Upcoming Events 3
Residents’ Birthdays 4
New Residents 4
Discharges 4
Mark your
calendars for the
Golden Age
Games
Friday
Oct. 11, 2019.
Volunteers are
needed.
Please see Ash
Carrel for more
information.
Dixie Zink,
Resident of the Month
Dixie Zink was born Aug. 7, 1927, in Boon-
ville, Missouri, to Lare and Pauline Watts. Dixie
was the youngest of the three Watts children.
Edna Mae was the oldest and next was Sam.
Dixie had lots of fun tagging along with Sam
and his friends and, even though she was young-
er and a girl, she could run just as fast as the
boys. When Dixie was four years old, the family
moved to Calhoun, Missouri, and then moved
again to Appleton City, Missouri, when Dixie
was in sixth grade. Dixie’s father, Lare, worked
as a station master of the MKT (also known as
The Katy) railroad. Dixie has many special
memories of her childhood including her moth-
er’s storytelling talents.
When Dixie walked into her sixth grade
classroom in Appleton City for the first time, it
was also the first time Wilbur Zink saw her. He
would later tell that it was at that moment he
said to himself, “that’s the girl I’m going to
marry.”
In 1944, both Dixie and Wilbur graduated
from Appleton City High School. Wilbur then
joined the U.S. Navy where he served on the
USS Nassau aircraft carrier. During this time,
Dixie attended what is now Southwest Baptist
University in Bolivar and earned an Associates
Degree in Education. She had planned to attend
Oklahoma Baptist University, but Wilbur came
home and instead of going to Oklahoma, she
and Wilbur got married Aug. 2, 1946!
When Wilbur returned home from the war,
he began working for his father at the Zink Mo-
tor Company in Appleton City. It is one of the
oldest Ford Motor Company dealerships in the
country at over 100 years old. Dixie and Wilbur
turned the upstairs of the dealership into an
apartment and the couple lived there for a num-
ber of years. The business remained in the Zink
family for over 80 years until it was sold.
When Dixie and Wilbur decided to build a
new house, Dixie also decided she wanted to
earn more money so she enrolled in beauty
school. The school was located in downtown
Kansas City, Missouri, so during the year-long
program, she lived with a relative in Belton,
Missouri, and rode the bus into the city
each day. When she got her cosmetology
license, she ran her own beauty salon in
their new house.
Dixie and Wilbur’s lives were fulfilled
and blessed when they became parents of
their two wonderful adopted children.
Their daughter, Susan Cooper, currently
lives in Bolivar and their son, David Zink,
lives in Raymore, Missouri. Dixie also has
three beautiful granddaughters, Lauren
Cooper, Lindsay Cooper and Anna Zink.
The couple enjoyed many years of go-
ing to Arizona for the winters. They also
moved to Springfield in 1997. In 2010,
Wilbur passed away and Dixie continued
to live in Springfield until 2014 when she
moved to Bolivar to be closer to her
daughter, Susan.
Dixie has loved piecing quilts and
quilting by hand for many years. She has
made many beautiful quilts for couples in
celebration of their marriage and for eve-
ryone in the family.
In 2017, Dixie moved to Butterfield.
She enjoys several activities including
exercise, paddleball, bingo, music and
socials. We are blessed to have her as part
of our Butterfield family. Thank you for
sharing your story with us Dixie!
Are you a caring individual who would like to assist in caring for the elderly?
Butterfield Residential Care Center has opportunities in its volunteer program.
For more information call Tammie Callaway, BRCC administrator, at 417-328-6380.