Residents’
Review
J u ly 2 0 1 7
V o lum e 3 0 , Iss u e 7
Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility is an affiliate of CMH, Bolivar, Mo., 417-326-6000
Facility Location: 1218 West Locust, Bolivar, MO 65613, 417-326-7648
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Resident of the Month 1
Activity Photos 2
Employee Spotlight 3
Announcements 4
Calendar of Events 5
Birthdays 6
New Residents 6
Discharges 6
Sympathy 6
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Alice Batten,
Resident of the Month
Alice Batten was born Feb. 7, 1919, to Steven and
Maud Davis in Argus Ville, N.D. She is the youngest of
seven children — one sister and five brothers.
When asked if she liked sports because she does such
a good job at the weekly exercise class, she said, “Oh, I
never did like sports. Every spring during school they
would have us go out and play or jump rope and I really
didn’t care much for it.”
Alice is a distant relative of Jefferson Finis Davis, the
U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi. She
has always loved to work and keep busy. Her first job was
at Stokely-Van Camp where she harvested the corn
through the cutters. She later worked seasoning the pies
for 18 and 1/2 years. Alice remarked that after shoveling snow for so many years in Minneso-
ta she wanted warm weather so she moved to Phoenix, Ariz. “Boy was that a mistake, it was
so hot there,” she said. Alice only stayed in Phoenix for 18 months then she moved to Illinois.
In Illinois, she worked for Motorola for three years lugging wires together for circuit boards.
She loved working so much, she even returned to Motorola and worked there until she was
70 years old.
Alice worked as a cafeteria cashier for Greyhound Bus. While working there a young gen-
tleman, Wes, would come in daily to sit, drink coffee and read the paper. As she would clean
they would visit. One day he asked her if she knew of anyone who had a room for rent. At first
she told him no because she said he looked like a hippie with all that long hair, but he kept
asking her. She did, in fact, have a room available, and after asking her several times she
told him she had one available. She told him a high price in hopes of discouraging him, but
he said he’d take it. In the evenings she would work on piecing quilts together. He would
tease her and ask if she was making that for his room, but she would tell him no, they were
for her kids. One day he made the comment, “Well, I guess I’m going to have to marry you to
get one of those quilts for myself.” She told him that was a silly reason to marry someone.
“Well, I do kind of like you, you know,” he said.
“He was a terrible romantic,” she laughs and says. Alice made her own wedding dress.
The couple was married for 33 years before he passed away in 2009. Alice has three chil-
dren, 10 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.
Alice has been a part of the CMHCF family since September 2016. She enjoys playing
cards — whether solitaire by herself or with a group of people — enjoys exercise class every
week, and has started playing bingo.