St. Luke Living Center
By SUE GUTSCH
St. Luke Living Center reporter
Joining our residents and Fr. Hien in the chapel Friday morning for mass were Pat Smith, Marie Navrat, Jeanne Vinduska, Vickie Melcher, and Peg Edwards.
The cookies living center bakers made that morning were called "Melting Moments" from a Baker's Collection of Riches pamphlet. This recipe called for a cup of flour, two tablespoons corn starch, a half-cup powdered sugar, and a cup of butter. We rolled the mixture into balls, covered them liberally with coconut, and baked until they were golden. This was a quick, simple, good cookie with very little clean-up required.
Our bingo caller, Magdalen Dvorak, "threw us a curve," in the afternoon when she served, not kolaches, but friendship bread when the games were over. Very few complaints were heard because the bread was delicious.
Thanks to Bill and Elaine Stoltenberg who furnished the prize items, we were able to play more games with more winners.
Late Friday afternoon Joyce Richmond brought in three boxes of colorful lap throws and table napkins, a gift from Marion VFW Auxiliary #6958. We believe the chief architect and seamstress for this project is Lois Weber and we certainly appreciate it.
The Rev. Josh Wesner of Emmanuel Baptist Church was our guest minister Sunday afternoon and gladly accepted Lydia's offer to accompany the singing.
It seemed appropriate to pretty-up Monday morning because our party celebrating residents with November birthdays was that afternoon. This month's honorees were Esther Dwyer and Aline Bernhardt. Irma Benda and Olinda's baby sister, Ruth Ann Dick helped serve dishes of vanilla ice cream topped with Heath magic shell, cookies, and drinks.
It was party-time again Tuesday morning, this time honoring Jeni Fredrickson and two-week-old Eldon Lee. Our housekeeping department hosted this facility-wide event in our large dining room. We were served cake squares decorated with rattles and teddy bears, delicious sherbet punch, nuts, and mints. Seeing all the small, adorable articles of clothing and other baby items was a special treat. Eldon Lee's great-grandma Dorothy was "allowed" time off to share in the happy occasion.
Our book club this week was as surprised as Laura to learn that her old nemesis, Nellie Oleson, was a student at the school in DeSmet, also. Even though her family now lived in a claim shanty too, Nellie's snobbish attitude, "New York" complexion, and genuine meanness were still intact and as usual, causing trouble.
We began Thanksgiving preparations in earnest Wednesday afternoon, cleaning and cutting vegetables for the relish trays. With that chore finished, we listened while Khrista read articles and columns of interest from the Marion County Record.
