June 2017
Eric Foster, 5, is excited to get his face painted at a Las Sendas neighborhood event.
Woman finds support for parents at assisted living home
Father and son bond over love of flying out of Falcon Field
By Colleen Sparks
By Colleen Sparks Jeriann Dosemagen is used to taking care of business on her own. The Whisper Mountain resident routinely worked 70 to 80 hours a week in her corporate job at Abbott Laboratories prior to her retirement. So she figured she could easily tackle caring for her elderly parents when they could no longer live on their own. “I naively didn’t realize how much work it was, the fact that their conditions changed on a day-to-day basis,” Dosemagen, 52, said. “My dad was the one that interestingly said, ‘You need to find a place for me. You can’t be doing this all day, every day.’”
(Photo by Kimberly Carrillo)
Jeriann Dosemagen keeps many family photos at her home.
Some fathers teach their sons how to hit a baseball or throw a football, but Bennett Sloan of Mesa helped his youngest son learn to soar through the clouds. Bennett, 59, and Stephen, 25, have private pilot’s licenses and frequently fly for fun in and out of Falcon Field in Mesa. They have flown to Payson, Deer Valley, Scottsdale, Goodyear and Tucson together. Together they also guide teens and young adults in Aviation Explorer Post 352, a program based at Falcon Field that’s part of Learning for Life, an affiliate of Boy Scouts of America that (Photo by Kimberly Carrillo)
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Stephen Sloan and his father, Bennett.
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