Residents’
Review
A u gu st 2 0 1 9
V o lum e 3 2 , Iss u e 8
Citizens Memorial Healthcare Facility is an affiliate of CMH, Bolivar, Mo., 417-326-6000
Facility Location: 1218 West Locust, Bolivar, MO 65613, 417-326-7648
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Resident of the Month 1
Activity Photos 2
Employee Spotlight 3
Announcements 4
Calendar of Events 5
Birthdays 6
New Residents 6
Discharges 6
Sympathy 6
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Caring for every generation
through exceptional services by
leading physicians and a
compassionate healthcare team.
Our Vision
Be the first choice for customer
focused healthcare to every
generation.
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Mary Moore,
Resident of the Month
Mary Moore was born Sept. 1, 1934, in Cheyenne Wells, Colora-
do to Lloyd and Bessie Anderson. Lloyd worked for Works Progress
Administration (WPA) which constructed building and roads in Mor-
risville. They didn’t have the equipment like they do now and her dad
had to mow tall grass along the road with a sickle and build roads by
using only his hands and horses. Bessie, her mother, was a telephone
switchboard operator and later worked for a doctor in Grandview,
Missouri. Mary had two older brothers, Owen Winifred and Owen
James. Her oldest brother, Owen Winifred taught her how to play the
guitar. She remembers playing music with him and their friends at a
bar on Main Street in downtown Grandview. She said playing guitar
would always lift her up. Her younger brother, Owen James, passed
away at the age of 25 from complications from a blood clot.
Mary attended several different schools throughout the years as
her parents found better paying jobs. She began school in Morrisville
and then moved to Overland Park, Kansas when she was in second grade. She recalled getting in a lot
of trouble while in second grade for getting caught dipping paper wads in an ink well and flipping
them at her classmates. She liked to add fun everywhere she went. Her family lived in the grandstand
of a horse arena while in Overland Park. She recalled a funny memory of her father hanging a pair of
pants on the edge of the bed one day. A rain came that flooded the arena and they watched his pants
float out the door. At age eight while still living at the arena, she remembers she and her younger
brother getting paid $.05 per horse to walk them to cool them down. Her family later moved to
Grandview and then Raymore, Missouri where she graduated high school.
Mary met J.T. Moore, who would become her future husband, when she was in high school. She
couldn’t stand him at first. While playing baseball one day when she was sixteen, someone pitched her
a basketball to hit. When she took a swing, she practically knocked herself out and fell to the ground.
J.T. picked her up out of the street and took her home to take care of her. That is when she decided
maybe he wasn’t so bad after all. The next step of their love story began at a church social. The
preacher asked the teenagers to bring a boyfriend or girlfriend to the hayride. Mary ran home crying to
her mother and told her that she didn’t have a boyfriend, but she wanted to go. Her mother suggested
her to ask J.T. since she had known him for so long. The hayride became their first date. Soon after,
J.T. joined the Army, fought in the Korean War, and became a lifetime member of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. Before he left, they discussed getting married, but while he was there, another girl
wrote him letters and sent him pictures. This upset Mary so she bet the girl $10 that J.T. would see her
first when he got back before seeing the other girl. Mary joked that she did win the bet, but never col-
lected her money.
Mary said she has had many highlights in her life. The first one was marrying J.T. on Nov. 15,
1952, and spending 56 wonderful years together. The birth of her four children, Danny, David, Robert,
and Sharon was another favorite highlight. They went everywhere together. One time they went to
Arizona to a Navajo Indian Reservation and stayed for six months helping missionaries build a church.
Another highlight was when she joined the Assembly of God Church of Stockton in 1999.
Mary spent many years working as a nurse’s aide in nursing homes in Lamar, Stockton, Eldorado
Springs and at the State Rehabilitation Center in Nevada, Missouri. Over the years she has enjoyed
crocheting, painting and playing guitar. Mary became a part our CMHCF family in March of 2019.
Her favorite things about living here is playing dominoes and bingo, getting ice cream from the ice
box, and enjoying all of the music entertainment. She said she also loves the cleanliness of the facility
and the compassion that is shown from the nursing staff.
Congratulations, Mary, on being chosen as CMHCF’s Resident of the Month!