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Photos courtesy of Wesley Village Staff Photographer, Christopher Ponce

provide benevolent care funds that aid
residents who outlive their own financial
resources. No church affiliation is necessary
to be eligible to live at WV.
A place like WV was first conceived in
the hearts and minds of Kentucky Methodist Church leaders in the 1960s. It did not
gain traction until a Methodist layman,
Ray Wesley of Somerset, KY, made a gift
of $253,000 in the late 1980s. Wesley had
moved to a retirement community in Ohio
because he could not find one in Kentucky
at the time. A close friend of WV founding
board member Dr. C.R. Hager of Nicholasville, Ray generously gave the first large

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