About 18 years ago, Hickory resident, Beth Schlosser, made the decision to seek out her birth mother. “You know it was a pretty unique situation,” shares Beth. “On ‘Oprah,’ where there are great success stories; then you see on ‘Jerry Springer,’ there’s not so great connection stories.” Beth, whose twins were infants at the time, […]
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“Dealing with dementia was like a glove fitting my hand perfectly,” begins Angela Simpson of Kannapolis, North Carolina. “My profession as an activity director with Morningside of Concord at the time coupled with caring for my grandparents — who had three different types of dementia — 15 years ago, evoked my sense of passion for […]
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“My mom was one of those people that everybody had a place at the table. There were no strangers. My sisters, brothers and I could bring home anybody, and there was always room to make another place at the table. It’s the kind of person she was. Everybody was family,” shared Rosemarie Marshall, a new […]
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With a cheerful demeanor from her kitchen in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Brenda Sutton is busy preparing large quantities of homemade food over the next two weeks. While it may seem like a heavy lift to some, for Brenda, her enthusiasm is palpable as she works on this tasty fundraiser for her Walk to End Alzheimer’s […]
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Sometimes life gives us what we need before we know we need it. That was true for Kelly Millington, president of the New Bern Rotary Club, as his personal and professional worlds began to collide last year. “I had a grandmother that had issues with memory loss, but I had not experienced it much in […]
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‘Epic singer’, ‘salsa dancer’, and ‘bingo-holic,’ are all terms of endearment in their sincerest forms for Evelyn Nazario de Jacobs, Cobb Tharp, aka ‘Mamacita’ to her namesake, her daughter Evelyn Jacobs, [ironically married a Jacobs of Swansboro] of Jacksonville, North Carolina. “She loved volleyball, any outdoor activities, served as our Boy Scouts den mother, our […]
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“Every time I hear the sounds of a piano, I always think of my grandmother,” begins Evan Norconk,” who works with Bank OZK in Gastonia, North Carolina. “She had many years of training and her playing flowed seamlessly.” Evan recalls coming home from school as a boy and often hearing her play in the living room. […]
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“You could live either another twenty minutes or another twenty years. We just don’t know,” stated the neurologist in a matter of fact tone to Donald Cameron about two years ago in a Vermont exam room. He sat in the office alone trying to absorb what he had just heard while his two daughters and then-wife […]
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Grief over the death of a loved one doesn’t just go away one day. You don’t wake up suddenly, however many moons later, and think ‘Well gosh, I’m no longer bothered by this hole in my heart.’ Oddly, grief is comparable to the journey of living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias: ‘good days and bad […]
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Beatrice Kirby not only understood the importance of community – she was a trailblazer and leader among hers in Winston-Salem right up until her late 70’s. Born in 1913, she was the first in her family to go to college. She was involved through her roles as a teacher and daughter of a pastor and […]
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