Residents’
Review
June 2019
V o lum e 3 2 , Iss u e 6
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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Roberta Renshaw
Resident of the Month
Roberta Renshaw was born April 9, 1934, in Battle
Creek, Michigan, to Hilbert and Grace Hoffman. Roberta
had a brother, Marlin, who passed away 60 years ago. Her
father built large boat pumps for Union Steam Pump and her
mother was a housewife. Roberta loved her parents dearly
and said “I always wanted to go home to be with them while
growing up. We were a plain ordinary family, but I felt that
her father was an angel. I feel very blessed to have been their
daughter and was able to be with them for many years.” Her
mother lived to be 96 and her father passed away at 90 years
of age.
Roberta attended schools and graduated from high school
in Battle Creek, Michigan. She recalled how frigid the win-
ters were there and how unique their playgrounds were com-
pared to those in Missouri. She remembers all of the play-
ground equipment being indoors in a large room when she
was in Kindergarten. The room had a play gym, sand boxes,
slides, and swings, and had a large curved window for them to look out while playing. It
was common for the temperatures in the winter to be 20-30 degrees below zero and she nev-
er liked the cold.
When Roberta was around eight years old, she remembered meeting a guy who was rais-
ing two cubs and a momma bear and kept them on chains in his yard. He let people feed
them if they wanted. She had a brand new pretty blue dress on and walked up to the momma
bear with a handful of raisins and she ate them out of her hand. When she got a second
handful and attempted to feed her the bear swatted at her and ripped five slashes in her
dress. She said it was a scary and memorable experience she will never forget.
Roberta married Albert Renshaw in 1952, and they were married for 25 years before
ending in divorce. Shortly after getting married, they moved to Houston, Texas, where he
became a print pressman. About a year later they decided to move to the Bolivar area where
they found a farm near Polk and they became farmers. The couple milked around seventy
head of cattle, planted and baled milo and planted and combined fescue. Albert and Roberta
had two wonderful sons together, Larry and David, and unfortunately both have passed
away. She said they were the sweetest boys that ever lived.
Roberta had three highlights in her life. She was saved at a Missionary Baptist church
near Polk, Missouri, loving and spending time with her husband, and the birth of her two
sons.
Roberta said, “God sent me two of the nicest people in my life when I needed them the
most, Ed and Charles.” She met Ed when he bought her farm and they became wonderful
friends from there. She met Charles at church and he preached at her mother’s funeral. They
have been good friends ever since. She is so thankful for each of them.
Roberta joined our CMHCF family in July 2018. Her favorite things about living here
are playing bingo, playing other games, and her good friends that she has made while here.
Congratulations, Roberta, on being chosen as CMHCF’s Resident of the Month!