On March 4, 2018, we gathered to honor and remember the men and women we’ve had the privilege to serve during the last weeks of their lives. About 100 family members and friends, volunteers, donors, staff and others joined in a program of spoken thoughts, readings and songs that warmed and comforted hearts. In the […]
JoAnn Linton has come to live with us at Caring House. We’re honored. JoAnn was born in Sylva, NC, the oldest of three children. She grew up in Charleston, WV, wed William Robinson and had eight children – Mary, Debra, William, Cheryl, Stanley, Linda, Larry and Michael. William Robinson was an enlisted Air Force Non […]
Christa Loderich has come to live with us at Caring House. We’re honored. Christa was born in the town of Hof in Bavaria, Germany. Her father remains missing in action from World War II. Christa was raised in Germany. Christa met and married Richard Anderson, an American working in Germany. They moved to Chicago in […]
Ruth Sears Hiersemann has come to live with us at Caring House. We’re honored. Ruth was born in Elburn, Illinois, the eldest of three children of Kenneth and Lucy Sears. She attended public schools in Elburn, and graduated from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa and obtained her Master’s Degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. […]
Pamela (Pam) Hyun Sook Kim has come to live with us at Caring House. We’re honored. Pamela was born in Seoul, Korea, one of five children. Pam was raised and schooled in Korea, emigrating to the U.S. at the age of 30. She had met Phillip, her husband-to-be, in Korea, and they married not long […]
Alex Mitchell has come to live with us at Caring House. We’re honored. Alex was born in Butte, Montana, the second of four children of Andrew and Catina Drakakis Mitchell. Both of his parents were born in Greece and met for the first time when living in Butte. His father worked as section gang foreman […]
Helen Ruth Brisco Cuccia has come to live with us at Caring House. We’re honored. Ruth was born in Roswell, NM, the youngest of five children of Nolan and Nancy Brisco. Nolan was a Baptist minister and Nancy a beautician and artist. Her parents and her three sisters and brother were wonderful musicians who loved […]
Walter (Walt) Montgomery has come to live with us at Caring House. We’re honored. A man with many other nicknames (including Butch, Daddy, Pops, Papa, Uncle Walt, Tee, Son of Abraham, EF Hutton), Walt was born in Duson, Louisiana. The fourth of 16 children, Walt started working in the cotton fields with his siblings at […]
Delores (Dee) Grinton Hardison has come to live with us at Caring House. We’re honored. Dee was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, the oldest daughter of nine children of Walter James Grinton and June Lenora Arntzen. Dee was fortunate as young woman to be able attend Western Washington University, in order to pursue teaching. […]
Laurel “Lala” M. Contreras has come to live with us at Caring House. We’re honored. Laurel, the daughter of George and Gloria Coakley, was born in Doctors Hospital in Los Angeles. She grew up in Gardena and graduated from Gardena High School. She loves her “Lala” nickname, that came about once she was a mother […]