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Hospice name change reflects new partnership Presbyterian Hospice of MidAmerica (PHMA) has changed its name to Senior Independence Hospice of Mid-America (SIHMA). This new name, effective August 2015, recognizes a partnership between PHMA and Senior Independence of Columbus, Ohio, combining their decades of experience in providing home and community-based services to seniors. SIHMA is a not-for-profit, Medicare-certified hospice agency in Missouri serving Iron, Madison, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve and Washington counties. It has provided services for endof-life care and support for our patients and their families since 2005. Rodney Quinton, administrator for SIHMA’s Farmington location, said he is pleased with the merger. “While still being owned by Presbyterian Manors, this gives us the ability to merge with a management company that can provide additional tools and resources specific to hospice care that are needed to further our mission to provide compassionate, end-of-life care, guided by Christian values,” he said. HOSPICE, continued on page 2
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Art is Ageless®
Local artist’s needlework nets Best in Show honor Cross-stitch is painstaking work. Even a simple pattern can call for dozens of colors of threads, carefully sewn into a coherent and often beautiful image. It took Helen Kripplaben of Bismarck, Mo., 11 months to complete a pattern that caught her eye in a cross-stitch catalog; however, many have asked if it’s a picture of her daughter or a loved one. Helen named it “Angel’s Lost Wing” and entered the piece in the Art is Ageless® competition this spring at Farmington Presbyterian Manor. “Angels Lost Wing” by Helen Krippleben. All those hours of work have paid off. Helen’s piece won Best in Show, amateur division, in the Art is Ageless masterpiece level competition. Her work rose to the top among more than 100 entries from 18 Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America communities in Kansas and Missouri. Artwork by more than 50 artists age 65 and older will be featured in the 2016 Art is Ageless calendar and note cards.
Helen became eligible for the masterpiece level of the contest when “Angel’s Lost Wing” won the needlework category at the local level. She also took the People’s Choice award, and she’s only been doing crossstitch for about eight years. “I retired in 2007, and I wanted to do something. I came across the cross stitch,” Helen said. “I had gotten little things to see if I could do them. Then, from the little things, it just kind of grew.” She started on patterns for fabric with a low thread count per inch, then worked her way up to more complex designs. Helen said she used to ART, continued on page 3
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Rodney added, “We are still the same hometown hospice that our patients and their families have trusted for the past 10 years. We look forward to joining the Senior Independence team and continuing to provide excellence in caring for those with terminal illness.” For more information, call 573-756-7066 or visit seniorindependencehospicema.org.
Cyber Café
Community Matters is published monthly for residents and friends of Farmington Manor by Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at PresbyterianManors.org Jane Hull, executive director Heidi Beyer, marketing director To submit or suggest articles for this publication, contact hbeyer@pmma.org Telephone: 573-756-6768 Fax: 573-756-6014 Address: 500 Cayce St., Farmington, MO 63640-2910 Our mission: We provide quality senior services guided by Christian values. FarmingtonPresbyterianManor.org
Resident Pat Shoemake sharpens her computer skills at Farmington Presbyterian Manor’s Senior Cyber Café. The Senior Cyber Café was Aug. 13 and was part of Presbyterian Manor’s “Just Ask” lifelong learning series.
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enjoy drawing, but now needlework appeals to her more—partly because she can choose from a variety of patterns, rather than coming up with a subject on her own. This isn’t Helen’s first Art is Ageless win. In 2011, her piece “Pleasures of Winter” took first place in Needlework at the local level. Now she’s working on a half-stitch pattern of two cardinals on a mailbox that calls for nearly 90 colors. “I’m learning different ways to do things. I got my friend hooked on it too. But I’d be a bad teacher,” she said with a laugh. “I don’t think I have the patience for that.” The 2016 Art is Ageless calendar and notecard artwork will include amateur and professional entries selected from winning entries in nine categories. Other winners from the Farmington competition to be featured in the calendar are the paintings “Bear-y Interesting,” by V. Ruth Horton and “Peacock Bob,” by Juanitta Wyman. Two entries will be featured on greeting cards: “To Grandma & Grandpa’s for Christmas,” by V. Ruth Horton, an entry in the Christmas category, and “Apple Basket,” by Barbara Stanfield, a drawing entry.
“Bear-y Interesting,” by V. Ruth Horton.
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“Peacock Bob,” by Juanitta Wyman. Farmington Presbyterian Manor
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