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