Commun ty Matters Kansas City Presbyterian Manor
COMING UP IN COMMUNITY MATTERS:
Everyone has a story to tell
What’s your secret artistic talent? An upcoming edition of Community Matters will focus on Art is Ageless®. The Art is Ageless® program encourages residents and other area seniors to express their creativity through an annual art competition and exhibit, musical and dramatic events, educational opportunities and current events discussions. What talent have you discovered? If you’ve got a story about what inspires you to create, contact Tina Ashford, activity director, and your story could be featured in an upcoming edition of Community Matters.
Are you keeping your talent hidden? Share it with us.
December 2015
December Brings Sweet Memories for Two Residents Remembering Pearl Harbor and the Great Depression
Doris Sass remembers that her husband was drafted in the Army in February of 1941, shortly after they were married, and the year the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on Dec. 7. He was stationed in California, and she decided to move to there to be closer to him.
She remembers taking a bus all by herself to California. She stayed three years but came back to Kansas when he was sent to the South Pacific and stationed in Hawaii. When she moved back to the Kansas City Doris Sass area, she stayed with her sister and brother-in-law. She got a job at the Fairfax plant where she worked in the oil bay and set parts for B-25 Bombers. She shared that she would go downtown every day for lunch because her sister was not a very good cook. When her husband returned after the war was over, she bought her first cookbook and learned to cook. She loved to cook. Once she had children, Doris brought back the tradition of baking and decorating Christmas cookies, something she enjoyed with her sisters when she was younger. She was the second to youngest out of seven girls. She grew up during the Great Depression, and they did not have very much money for gifts. A fond memory she shared is that she used to love to sweep with her mother’s broom, and she received a child’s size broom for Christmas one year. We thank Doris for sharing her memories, and for sharing her famous Christmas cookie recipe. (see page 2)
Christmas Memories of Real Trees and Big Feasts
When she was younger, Patricia Watson remembers going to a small Methodist Church of about 20 members. She remembers that the church
MEMORIES continued on page 2