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From Here 'n There |By ARNIE HOFFMAN Ht-Utri EditorOne hundred and we years old and sharp as ■ lack are the words that one orderly at Sacred Heart Hospital used to describe Mrs. Rose Herrell of Augusta.Mrs Herrell was in the hospital recovering from a broken hip suffered in a fall at the Augusta Home where she is now living•Hits writer found Mrs Herrell exactly that, except'onalty dram-minded and witty for her age She not only is mentally alert but. except for the broken hip. is hi good physical condition, a hospital worker notedShe’s played cards with the orderlies and even checkers far a few minutes with another.However. *e has wtv one thing on her mind at the present tm and that is getting back to the home at Augusta where she’s engaged tn sewing.Mrs Hem-11 snvs she has worker: as a (jullt-maker for manv years and has supplied quilts all over the United StatesHer biggest worry about the broken hip is that she may ml be able to get dose enough to the sewing machine while in n wheelchairMrs. HertH was born in the Town of Bridge Crrek Nov. a. tm and she volunteered that the Nov. « date was the van* a* the nor on which President Kennedy was shat.She lived on a farm In the Augusta area with rune other children and lw German parents. Mr and Mrs Michael Weirich We were the onh Carman family in that area then Nobody could pronounce our name right and It ended up spelled as Weire and prooounced as wire-.” she said Her father. 4w recalled, was a second lieutenant (hiring the Civil WarWe lived across the mad from the Herrell family, and they were Irish and English I mamed Eugene Herrell from that family and as a German and Englishman we ihd just fine.” she saidShe added that twice their lam hoikliwe* were haltered by cyclones, but we hoi* np both limes.’’ she *aad.We had hard -*Tatrhtng in those days.” Mrs HerTe«l said, we had probably one dress and that was It “Although she acknortedgrd that there have been many, manv changes in the year*, many of them for the better, she still believes the old times were the best -* * *coming hero among the ben teMrng coontrv wester, recor-l.retta Lvno who will be here is on top this week with •One's On the Way; Merle Haggard, the headliner here, has the No J best seller ' Carolyn.” and Conway Twitty. who will atao be here, has the No « best selling country western record I Cant See Me Without You .”
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Eau Claire Leader Telegram
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Feb 11, 1972
Page 25
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