On Friday, November 11, 2016, (Veteran’s Day), John and Patty Wareheim from Hanover, PA hosted a rehearsal dinner for Ed Dean and Paulette Schaier at Oakwood Country Club. The following day, Saturday, November 12, 2016, Ed and Paulette got married at 4:00 p.m. at Palo Verde Country Club with a reception that followed. It was…
Beverly Cross Bender Beverly Cross Bender of Sun Lakes, Arizona, passed away on November 19, 2016. She was born in upstate New York on October 19, 1922, and graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in home economics. On July 21, 1945, she married Bob, her childhood sweetheart. She lived and worked in Fayetteville,…
David Zapatka While reading about the hero’s journey, a theme that occurs in nearly all movie scripts, the word ”archetype” was presented as an aspect of movie characters. This so-called hidden DNA of storytelling was recognized in the 1800s by Max Muller when he noticed similarities between ancient epic stories and wrote about them in…
Texaco retiree Joe Rainiero is proud of his gift of providing spiritual care to cancer sufferers and others with severe medical problems. “You have to be a communicator who can let people know your heart is right when you visit them in a hospital or help their family get through a tough time,” Joe says.…
Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D. To say that life is strange is to undermine the value of life. Perhaps there are things that occur seeming to be strange, but in essence the strange aspects contain surprises we never expected or even anticipated. Perhaps our description should include words like unusual, or unfamiliar. I would go even…
What are the odds? Six women in Oakwood Unit 38 share a December 18th birthday! Pictured left to right are Tillie Fortner, Dianna Milkint, Anne Reynolds, Della Stagner and Mary Beth Woods. Missing from the photo is Nancy Pinsonneault.