O Parkview UTLOOK
Volume 31 , Issue 4 April 2021
Parkview Health Care Facility is an affiliate of CMH , Bolivar , MO 65613 , 417-326-6000 Facility Location : 119 West Forest , Bolivar , MO 65613 , 417-326-3000
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What is your job at PV ? Social Services and Financial Counselor . How long have you worked at PVHCF ? 6 months . What is your favorite thing about Parkview ? Building friendships with all of the residents . What is your favorite thing to do when you are not at work ? Going on walks with my puppy , Teddy ! ( pic below ) What ’ s one more thing you want us to know ? I ’ m getting married in April .
M e e t P e g g y J o n e s , R e s i d e n t o f t h e M o n t h
Peggy Lou Jones was born Dec . 1 , 1924 , to “ Ott ” and Gola Murray in a little farmhouse between Tin Town and Pleasant Hope , Missouri . Peggy and her five sisters and seven brothers grew up on the farm and worked hard to help their parents keep it running . Peggy Lou remembers watering their three hundred or so chickens for her chores . They always worked hard so that they would have time to play each day and there was never a dull moment .
Peggy attended Black Oak School in Pleasant Hope from 1 st through 8 th grade and loved the opportunity she got to work there . She was never able to attend high school because almost all of her brothers enlisted for World War II and she was needed to continue serving on the farm .
In 1940 Peggy Murray met Kyle Jones at a show in Pleasant Hope and Kyle knew right
then that he was going to marry her . He enlisted in the navy a year later and eventually she moved with him to a base in Olathe , Kansas and became his wife June 6 , 1943 . While he served overseas in Hawaii for 17 months Peggy worked on the base at the store . When he returned they ran a café together for a year and then a grocery store in Halfway for about
another year . Kyle had joined the reserves after the war and got called in July 1950 to California to serve on an aircraft carrier and repair planes for 17 months . Peggy faithfully picked up their two kids and moved to California serving their family while Kyle served his
country . After his service the family moved back to Missouri and raised their four kids , Nancy , Kirk , Karen and Myrna , on a farm much like Peggy ’ s own childhood .
Throughout her life Peggy learned and loved to sew and crochet , but most of all she
loved to quilt . Peggy is blessed with eleven grandchildren , thirty great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren , all of whom she gifted a quilt at their birth . She even made quilts for their weddings as well !
Something else she enjoyed after the war was being a part of home demonstration clubs , where women in rural America could come together and share their home-making skills . Peggy especially loved when they would plan excursions to travel around to different cities in
Missouri and explore . This community of women served her well after her husband passed .
Peggy came to Parkview Health Care Facility around March 1 of 2021 . Her favorite part about living here is getting to know the staff . When asked if there is anything else she wants us to know about her she said , “ Just that I lived a full and happy life and I thank the Lord for it every day !”
Congratulations , Peggy , on being chosen as Parkview Health Care Facility ’ s Resident of the Month !
Are you a caring individual who would like to assist in caring for the elderly ? Parkview Health Care Facility has opportunities in its volunteer and nursing program . For more information call Tim Francka , administrative director , at 417-326-3000 .
