COMING OF AGE

different then — you wore hose, gloves, hats every day to work. Never pants. You worked on manual typewriters and calculators. Everybody smoked at their desks. Frances doubtlessly ruled the roost at Rauscher Pierce Securities for 40 years. (She giggles but doesn’t disagree with the notion that the executive secretary, especially one who’s been around for decades, is the brain of a business.) She retired in 1992.

Loss and gratitude …

In 1996, after 50 years of marriage, Frank died. In fact, now that she is in her late 80s, most of her friends are gone, she says. “You miss them so much. You just have to be grateful that you had them as long as you did.” She still loves sports. “Exercise, even if you can’t get around so easily, is the key to staying healthy and alert,” she shares. She also plays Bingo regularly, which gets her up and down the stairs each day at the Whiterock Court retirement home. She loves watching the Rangers, Mavs, Cowboys and “Dancing With the Stars” on television. She eats a bunch of fruit and vegetables and just a little meat. And she makes new friends. “I recently lost my best friend, Mary. But you have to keep rebuilding. Making new friends,” Frances says. Based on the laughter and chatting at the night’s Bingo session, it’s more than idle advice. “You have to accept and be grateful, never give up and stay happy.”

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