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Archive for the ‘Resident Spotlight’ CategoryThe Practical Solution: Jim and Margaret Mitchell
Jim and Margaret Mitchell share their history with The Pinnacle at EdenHill. Tags: ccrc, continuing care retirement community, Faith, Jim Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell, New Braunfels, Places to Live New Braunfels, senior living, Senior Retirement, Things to do in New Braunfels Comer and Barbara Alden: Where Faith Meets Fate
It’s not every day you bump into the same handsome stranger—not in two, not in three, but in several different places! Comer and Barbara first met in 1970 at a meeting of volunteers of the local crisis center in Birmingham, Alabama. Barbara was volunteering there on the suicide prevention hotline, and Comer, with his…Read the Rest of Article Tags: Barbara Alden, ccrc, Comer Alden, continuing care retirement community, Faith, New Braunfels, Places to Live New Braunfels, senior living, Senior Retirement, Things to do in New Braunfels A Pilgrimage to The Pinnacle: Reverends Ralph and Sandy Ludwig
From Buffalo, New York to New Braunfels, Texas—by way of Pennsylvania, Army posts in New Jersey, Vietnam, Missouri, Colorado, North Carolina, Germany, and Army retirement in Texas—the Reverends Ralph and Sandy Ludwig have literally crisscrossed the world. Ralph fulfilled his life’s calling in the ministry and Sandy was both minister and social worker in their…Read the Rest of Article Tags: Activists New Braunfels, ccrc, continuing care retirement community, New Braunfels, Resident Spotlight, Rev. Ralph Ludwig, Sandy Ludwig, senior living, Senior Retirement Joan Phalen: A Place to Call Home
‘Everyone has a place they call home, and I call Dixon home.’ These are the memorable words of former president, Ronald Reagan, speaking about his boyhood home, Dixon, Illinois. Those words left a lasting impression on Future Resident, Joan Phalen, as she spent the better part of three decades living in Dixon…Read the Rest of Article Tags: ccrc, continuing care retirement community, New Braunfels, senior living, Senior Retirement, Things to do in New Braunfels Activists in our Midst: Rev. Bill and Florence Burns
Perhaps one of the most rewarding things about choosing The Pinnacle at EdenHill as your future home is the colorful spectrum of people, from all walks of life, who will be your neighbors. Certainly among the most vibrant Future Residents are Reverend Bill and Florence Burns. Whether participating in civil rights marches, assisting the FBI…Read the Rest of Article Tags: Activists New Braunfels, ccrc, continuing care retirement community, Florence Burns, New Braunfels, Resident Spotlight, Rev. Bill Burns, senior living, Senior Retirement Tom Carter—Texas Family Man
Tom Carter is a man of few words, but one thing is clear. From young army recruit, to avid hunter and fisherman, to cross-country traveler— throughout the rugged adventures which make up his life, Tom has always been, first and foremost, a family man. Having freshly graduated with a degree in accounting…Read the Rest of Article Tags: ccrc, continuing care retirement community, New Braunfels, Resident Spotlight, senior living, Senior Retirement, Tom Carter Betty Woodward—A Family Affair
Sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother—these are a few of the words that best describe Betty Woodward and give the greatest meaning to her life. Growing up as one of four sisters, spending almost 42 years married to her late husband, Johnny, rearing three sons, and being blessed with nine grandchildren and, to date, three great-grandchildren,…Read the Rest of Article Tags: Betty Woodward, ccrc, continuing care retirement community, New Braunfels, Resident Spotlight, senior living, Senior Retirement, The Pinnacle, Things to do in New Braunfels It Only Took a Spark: Lowell & Peggy McKanna
Lowell and Peggy McKanna first met over lunch, quite by accident, at a 1978 Fireplace Institute conference in Palm Springs, California. They were both working in the appliance distribution business—Lowell was based in Denver, Colorado, and Peggy was based in Houston, Texas—and as Peggy puts it, “Fireplaces were the common thing between us.” Though the…Read the Rest of Article Tags: ccrc, continuing care retirement community, edenhill, Lowell McKanna, McKanna, New Braunfels, Peggy McKanna, Resident Spotlight, senior living, Senior Retirement, The Pinnacle at EdenHill Neal and Vaida Jordan: New Horizons with Old-World Connections
Like a quilt of many colors and patterns, the life stories of this couple are colorful and varied, detailed and complex, and too elaborate to unfold here. However, an interview with Neal and Vaida Jordan provided a snapshot of their lives. And from that, it’s easy to see how this wayfaring pair of travelers has…Read the Rest of Article Tags: ccrc, continuing care retirement community, Neal Jordan, New Braufels, retirement, senior living, The Pinnacle, Things to do in New Braunfels, Vaida Jordan Full Circle: Don and Kathy Stevens
Don Stevens, originally from Hondo, Texas, a little town west of San Antonio, had moved to Corpus Christi to work for Western Electric Company shortly after his discharge from the Navy. Don had joined the navy in 1949, and with the onset of the Korean War in 1950, he worked as a medical corpsman…Read the Rest of Article Tags: ccrc, continuing care retirement community, Don Stevens, edenhill, Independent Living, Kathy Stevens, New Braunfels, senior living, Senior Living Texas, Seniors, The Pinnacle at EdenHill |
