Commun ty Matters Farmington Presbyterian Manor
May 2018
Annual fundraiser a $16,000 success Thank you to everyone who attended our annual Chicken and Dumplings Dinner and Silent Auction in March. More than $16,000 was raised to benefit Presbyterian Manor residents who have outlived their financial resources through no fault of their own. Each year, Farmington Presbyterian Manor hosts this fundraiser to support the local Good Samaritan Program, which depends solely on donations from friends and supporters to care for seniors living at Presbyterian Manor.
The country store that Pat Shoemake’s parents owned. Pat worked there throughout her childhood.
Pat Shoemake’s country roots prepared her for worldly adventures As she grew up clerking the family’s country store, selling groceries and pumping gas, resident Pat Shoemake had no idea how her life in the small community of Rondo would prepare her for a life traveling the world. “I grew up in our family’s country home, worked at the country store next door, attended a country church and went to a one-room school just 45 miles north of Springfield,” Pat said. “The values I learned there have helped me all through life.”
Jeannine Koen and Kaye Keith help at the drink station during the Chicken and Dumplings Dinner and Silent Auc-
After graduating from high school at Bolivar, Mo., Pat said she was tired of working at the store. “I went to Kansas City to make my fortune,” she said, but discovered that life as a file clerk at Sears and Roebuck wasn’t for her. Pat returned home PAT, continued on page 2
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and enrolled in college to become a teacher. She taught second through eighth grades before marrying Edward and staying home for eight years to raise two daughters. When her children were grown, she went back to teaching until her retirement.
learn English, so we did a lot of play acting to learn English—we played store and house. Growing up, I had a teacher who loved to have plays at school, too. She loved to have programs, music and poetry. She instilled in me a love of theater.”
When her family moved back to the states, elementary teacher jobs were hard to find, so Pat returned While married, Pat and her family to school to become a special lived in various places because of her education teacher. “As a special husband’s career in the Navy. education teacher, I had a resource room where several kids were all “I taught in Kansas, California, doing different things at one time. Midway Island and Guam,” Pat My experience growing up in a onesaid. “While in Guam, I taught room school served me well for Vietnamese students who had escaped from Vietnam after the war. this,” she said. The point was for the students to After retiring, Pat traveled all over
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Polk County to interview residents for the 2000 census. She became involved in community theater, and did everything from making tickets and selling tickets to “playing murderers and having all sorts of wonderful roles.” Pat went back for more school, too. She took numerous classes in travel so she could join her daughter’s
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About six years ago, she put down new roots and moved into an independent living residence at Farmington Presbyterian Manor. She is now closer to her daughter and grandchildren, and she enjoys reading, cooking, working in her garden and continuing her love of theater with other Presbyterian Manor residents.
While Pat has roots growing at Farmington Presbyterian Manor, she doesn’t consider herself tied down.
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Pat portrays Grandma Rose in “Stranger in the Lighthouse.” Community Matters May 2018
online travel agency. “We did luxury land and cruise travel. I was our Alaskan specialist. I’ve been all over the Caribbean and taken several cruises there and to Alaska.”
“I love doing the reader’s theater here. We call it ‘Theater with Pat.’ It’s fun to turn someone’s wheelchair into a motorcycle.”
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Pat on an Alaskan cruise, when she traveled from Seattle, Wash., to Skagway, Alaska.
“I’ve still got a bucket list,” she said. “I have three states I haven’t been to: Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. I’ve got to get there. I’m going to try next fall.” Like us on Facebook
Nursing Home Week activities • Fred Bird, the St Louis Cardinal’s mascot, performs at 2 p.m., Friday, May 11 • Mother’s Day Brunch, 10 a.m., Sunday, May 13 • Luau, 2 p.m., May 14 with performance by Jim ‘n’ I • DJ Edwards Magic Show, 2 p.m., May 15, health care center • Western Day BBQ, noon, May 16. This is an outdoor event. Residents are invited to wear cowboy hats and take horseand-buggy rides. • Picnic outside, 11 a.m., May 17
Annual Chicken and Dumplings Dinner and Silent Auction Above left: Mark Toti, a local radio host, enjoys a delicious plate of chicken and dumplings. Above: Loren Rickmar and her son, Jace, enjoy their supper and monster trucks. Left: Dining services team members Tasha Finley, Becca Turner, Dena Dotson, Brenda Gowen, Vanessa Smith and Donna Huggins, who made more than 500 pounds of chicken and dumplings for the event.
• Carnival Day, 10 a.m., May 18. This is an outdoor event. We will have funnel cakes, cotton candy, snow cones and games.
Above: Donated by Precision Eye Care, this gardener’s dream was one of the silent auction items. The silent auction raised more than $3,000 for the Good Samaritan program. Left: Byron Taylor, a member of the mission committee.. The volunteer mission committee supports Presbyterian Manor through volunteer activities and fundraising efforts. Like us on Facebook
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