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A Century of Banking On Alabama. A living room in every home Mary Margaret plays piano while Gerald rounds up residents for Bible classes and chapel services. Gerald spends several hours a week playing checkers with a resident who doesn’t want to leave his room, playing dominoes with a stroke victim and visiting others who are confined to bed. An arrowhead maker and collector, he frequently takes his collection to show residents, and has made arrowhead necklaces for about 80 percent of them. “I’m a veteran (Air Force) and I have something in common with those men,” Hoyle explains when asked why he volunteers so much. “I’m younger than most of them — I’m 68 — but I enjoy being in their company.” The home needs more volunteers, and Gerald believes that anybody with people skills would love visiting the men and women who live there. “It just makes me feel good to go there,” says the pastor of Mount Olive Freewill Baptist Church in Dunnavant. “It’s a blessing.” Steve Howard, Col. Howard’s younger brother, visits the home almost every day. He often brings small gifts for residents and always brings his lap dog, Cash, who has become the home’s unofficial mascot. “I followed Robert all my life,” Howard says. “We had a special bond. I feel a special bond for this home, too. I know someday I’ll be living here.” l
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