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Just like the old days

Memory care facilities help dementia patients live golden years to the fullest

BY KAYLA HEIMERMANSpecial to Kaleidoscope

DIXON – Some older gentlemen putter at a workbench. Some older ladies fold brightly colored towels. Another group of seniors plays games and puts together puzzles.

Just like the old days. Well, sort of like the old days.

The activities – designed to engage residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and other memory issues – are offered in the new mem-ory care wing at LifeHOUSE Liberty

Court in Dixon.Such facilities are not yet the norm in

the Sauk Valley.Many assisted living facilities and

nursing homes have secure doors and alarm systems to ensure residents with memory problems do not wander off the premises. They might have an enclosed outdoor courtyard or garden, too.

But dedicated memory care units are on the rise in the area.

“The baby boomers are aging,” said Ann Barlow, executive director of Lib-

erty Court. “Until it affected these younger folks, we didn’t see a need for [such care]. We think, ‘Oh, they’re older, they’re just starting to lose their memo-ry.’ But now that it’s hitting people who are younger, we see a need. We think, ‘Wow, they’re young; they’ve got a lot of life left to live.’”

The new 16-unit facility still is await-ing some final touches, including a state inspection, but it already is nearly at capacity.

Philip Marruffo/[email protected] Swan works on a puzzle in the Montessori-based dementia care unit at LifeHOUSE Liberty Court. The senior care center offers residents work stations that help to keep their minds sharp.

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Liberty Court employs Montessori-based dementia care to treat its residents with memory ailments. The program-ming focuses on people’s abilities, rather than their deficits; it enlivens their sense of purpose; and it enhances their self-esteem and fosters their independence, according to the LifeHOUSE website.

Residents participate in meaningful and engaging activities, Barlow said. The activities might seem juvenile, but they really are age- and, more important, memory-appropriate, she said.

“With dementia patients, when they start to lose their memory, first in is last out,” Barlow said. “What they remember, what they have retained is from when they were little. What they go back to is their childhood.

“It’s not a dignity issue. It’s just what they remember.”

The Montessori-based offerings at Lib-erty Court include a series of stations.

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At the caregiver station, residents can take care of baby dolls. They can change them, feed them, and swaddle them in blankets. They can read to them or just rock them.

In the laundry room, residents can fold washcloths and towels. In Grandpa’s workshop, residents can use a tape mea-sure, saw and drill (using Black & Decker children’s power tools) to build some-thing.

The memory care programming – which also includes 10 ready-to-use activity baskets complete with instruc-tions – is helping residents not slip deep-er into dementia.

“Many of our residents are at the early stages,” Barlow said. “We don’t have people who wander. We don’t have too many with impulsive behaviors. We’ve seen a difference in our further-pro-gressed clients. It’s quite inspiring.”

Good Neighbor Care of Sterling is add-ing a memory care wing that will house 30 people. The assisted living facility just

broke ground and expects to open the new unit next spring or summer.

“With the aging of the baby boomers, the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and demen-tia-related illnesses is exponentially increasing, and in order to make their golden years as comfortable and safe as possible, we needed to add a commu-nity,” said Patricia Cronister, executive

director of Good Neighbor Care.The new facility will be connected to

its main living community by a corridor and will include a memory care garden. It will offer 24-hour nursing care, as well as activities and therapies that will foster independence in its residents.


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Resthave Nursing and Retirement Home in Morrison is one of those facilities that does not have a dedi-cated memory care unit.

The facility has what is called a wander guard system – that is, it has doors with alarms that will sound should a resident try to wander out of the building, said Kristi Christiansen, administrator at Resthave. The facil-ity is in the middle of a three-phase expansion project that will add a 70-bed nursing wing with an enclosed outdoor courtyard that will allow resi-dents to be outside in a secure area, she added.

Resthave still is able to care for many residents with memory ailments. It refers those people it cannot properly care for, however, to facilities with more involved memory care, such as Big Meadows Nursing Home in Savan-na or others in Clinton, Iowa.

“We have to determine, is this going to be a safe environment for them?” Christiansen said.


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A life dedicated to service

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected] Bowers sets items on a shelf at the Leydig Center in Dixon. The 88-year-old Dixon woman has volunteered at the center – and until last year, with Meals on Wheels – for more than 40 years.

88-year-old a Leydig Center staple more than 40 yearsBY CHRISTI WARREN

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DIXON – Opal Bowers stares into the open oven and lifts the lid off a heavy blue pot.

“What are you doing?”“Just checking on lunch.”At the Leydig Center, lunch is provided

for workers every day at 11:30 a.m. The meal will feed about 35 people. Today, it’s Opal’s turn to cook.

“What’s for lunch?”“Beef and noodles.”When 88-year-old Opal first came to

work at the Leydig Center, the charity still was operating out of Eurith Leydig’s base-ment. Back then, Mrs. Leydig gave away different items for free to those in need.

Opal got involved through her church, the Church of the Brethren in Dixon, and spent her first day sorting boots and shoes.

“I remember thinking it was a really neat thing for somebody to do,” she says.

That was about 50 years ago, give or take a few – Opal can’t quite remember.

In the 44 years since Mrs. Leydig’s death, the Leydig Center has had four locations: a vacant church on Highland Avenue, one spot and then another on Brinton Avenue, and now its enormous, 68,000-square-foot location at 1101 Warp Road, behind BorgWarner Dixon.

Opal first came to Dixon from Moweaqua with the Illinois Central Rail-road, working as a telegraph operator. She met her future husband through mutual friends, and they found a com-

fortable life here, raising their three sons. She came to spend her days doing vol-unteer work with her church and at the Leydig Center.

Since her husband’s death 38 years ago, volunteering has taken on an even greater role in her life.

“It’s my recreation or my social life, I guess you could call it,” she says. “We’re all just like a big family here, and we’re all good friends.”

The Leydig Center is unique, Opal says, in that no one on staff receives a penny – any and all money made goes straight to charity. And she’s taken an active role to ensure it stays that way, serving on the board since 1970 in every position avail-able.

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The center gives at least $175,000 a year to local charities, she says, and that makes it all worth it.

“I know it’s doing a lot of good,” she says. “That’s why I’m here. I like help-ing people. That’s the way I’ve always been. That’s my life.”

In recent years, her involvement has declined, if only minimally. She has problems with her eyesight – macular degeneration – and recently quit driv-ing, which meant she had to give up volunteering with Meals on Wheels, which she also had done for some 40 years.

But she still comes into the Leydig Center as often as she can, getting rides with co-workers and regularly working 6-hour days.

Once she leaves, her day isn’t done. She frequently brings home “home-work,” choosing to spend her after-noons sorting greeting cards and jew-elry, which she then prices and places out on the racks.

She isn’t just a worker, she’s a fre-quent customer, too.

“I can’t afford to go to the stores and pay the prices,” she says, dressed in an outfit that was bought entirely at the Leydig Center. “And some of the stuff in the stores – the styles are so bad and the material’s not good. What we get in here is.”

Last year, Opal was grand marshal in the Petunia Festival parade, where the Leydig Center float took first place in the business category – an accomplish-ment to be proud of, to be sure, but for Opal, what it really comes down to is making a difference.

“It’s just a good feeling to walk in here every morning and know you’re going to be helping somebody.”

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About 82 to 100 volunteers help out, sorting, pricing and stocking shelves and racks, and the profits, 50 cents of every dollar spent there, go to local charities – last year, that amounted to roughly $175,000 to 21 organizations.

It all depends on that volunteer labor, though, and while profits and customers are increasing, the number of volunteers is dropping and their age is rising. More than a dozen are older than 80, including 87-year-old Opal Bowers, a volunteer for about 5 decades now.

Perhaps she is proof that the key to longevity is having a giving heart.

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“It’s a wonderful arrangement,” said the white-haired Rosenfeld, who when asked her age will only say she’s a senior citizen. “The way the rents are these days, I couldn’t stay here without it.”

She shares her two-bedroom, $1,000-a-month Brooklyn apartment with Carolyn Allen, a 69-year-old widow who has suffered two strokes and no lon-ger wants to live alone.

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“Our seniors want to remain part of the community they were raised in, where they worked and went to church,” said Jackie Grossman, director of the home-sharing program at Open Communities in the Chicago suburbs. “They don’t want to be just with other seniors. Maybe they love their garden, their tool shed, and they would have to give that up if they move into senior housing.”

At the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, where applicants have tripled since 2008, the average boarder pays about $700 a month. The same average holds at the HIP Housing program in San Mateo, California, but it is about $500 at the St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center in Baltimore.

Agencies handle the background checks and other screening and consider various lifestyle criteria – smoking, pets, dispos-able income – in making matches. When a match is made, the new roommates sign an agreement covering chores, overnight visitors, telephone use, etc.

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seniors. In the New York program, only one of the two people has to be 60 or older.

The agencies’ services mean people who want a roommate don’t have to post notic-es in neighborhood weeklies or online and worry about who will respond.

“Craigslist can be very scary, especially for women,” said Connie Skillingstad, president of Golden Girl Homes Inc. in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, which refers women to housing resources including home-sharing. “They’d rather go through a respectable organization.”

In the past, program directors say, many of the people offering space were willing to take household help – grocery shopping, housecleaning, repair work – in lieu or some or all of the rent.

Recently, though, more people have insisted on dollars rather than services.

“In the last 5 years, we’ve really seen more people looking for financial aid rath-er than barter,” said Kirby Dunn, executive director of Homeshare Vermont in Burl-ington.

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ionship can be almost life-altering,” Dunn said. “People are telling us they’re happier, sleeping better, eating better. ... If I could sell you a drug that did that, you’d pay a lot of money.”

Grossman said many long-lasting friend-ships develop, “and for others there’s just mutual respect and that’s fine, too.”

Rosenfeld and Allen, who have been roommates for 3 years, both said they feel more like business associates than longtime friends like TV’s “Golden Girls,” but they gabbed like sisters and giggled about the apparent highlight of their time together: “the bathtub incident.”

Allen, who gets around with the help of a walker, had slipped in the bathtub and gotten stuck, with one leg wedged awk-wardly behind her. She tried and tried but couldn’t get up.

“If I was living alone I might have been there for days,” she said. But Rosenfeld was home, and although she’s too petite to extract Allen from the tub, she was able to call 911 – and provide a towel for Allen to cover herself when rescuers arrived.

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PHILADELPHIA – Food can be one of those unexpected flash points of late life.

Grandma may say she’s never hungry or that the only things that taste good are salty foods such as French fries. Grandpa may lose control over his sweet tooth, liv-ing on Tastykakes and ice cream.

The rest of the family worries that poor nutrition will make their elders’ already tenuous health even worse and hasten death. So, in frustration and fear, they chide or tempt loved ones to change their habits. Often, they learn what stubborn means.

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Older people can also have distortions of taste that make everything – even water – taste salty or give foods a sour or bitter taste, Doty said. In cacosmia, one of the more alarming problems, foods take on a fecal flavor.

In younger people, the sense of smell can be impaired by viruses, head injury, or chemotherapy.

“People don’t appreciate how important these senses are until it happens to them or one of their loved ones,” Doty said.

Not being able to smell well can be a seri-ous problem, said Ronald DeVere, a neu-rologist who directs the Smell and Taste Center in Austin, Texas. People may not smell smoke, leaking gas, or spoiled food. If they lose interest in food, they may lose weight, a risk factor for other health prob-lems in the elderly. Smell loss may also contribute to depression if older people curtail social activities that involve food.

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Philip Marruffo/[email protected] Koch puts away pans while working Friday afternoon at Culver’s in Dixon. Elwood works Mondays and Fridays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., sanitizing the cooking area, the table tops, and the bathrooms. When it gets busy at the restaurant, he helps wait on customers.

BY KATHLEEN A. [email protected], ext. 5535

DIXON – His hands are the strong, sure hands of a working man, smooth and cool from so much time in water, with long, thin fingers knob-knuckled with age. His grip, though, like the man himself, is gentle.

But his hands aren’t the first thing you notice when you meet Elwood Koch. First, there’s the sweet, friendly smile, and those blue, blue, Culver’s blue eyes that he fixes on you from behind his gold-rimmed glasses, all his attention focused on you.

Koch, who may be the oldest employ-ee working at any of the restaurant

chain’s 500 or so sites, turned 90 on March 29. Friday, his colleagues and customers in Dixon celebrated the milestone with balloons and stream-ers, and a red-and-white banner wish-ing him a happy birthday.

As his nametag proclaims, Elwood has been “True blue since 2010.”

He calls this his third career. His first was raising dairy cattle and four chil-dren – two boys, two girls – on a farm south of Polo. He and his wife, Elea-nor, did that for 30 years, then Elwood was a janitor at Flex-O-Glass for 28 years.

Eighty-five was in his rearview mirror when the Flex-O-Glass folks suggested it might be time to retire. “They didn’t

want me to die with my boots on,” he said. He loved that job, “made a lot of great friends there,” but agreed to hang up his broom.

That retirement lasted about a month. Then Elwood, a regular diner at Culver’s (chopped steak with mush-rooms and chocolate custard with cashews is his favorite), asked owner Jason Rowe, “Can you use an 86-year-old that’s a little bit deaf?”

“I didn’t want to sit around any-more.”

Rowe, who became Elwood’s friend because of the Kochs’ frequent visits, hired him on the spot.

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It was a no-brainer, Rowe said. Elwood went from being a loyal and faithful guest to a loyal, faithful and dedicated employee, who sets a great example for his younger co-workers.

“Elwood is fantastic at what he does. He takes his job so seriously, he’s so con-cerned about doing a good job ... and he’s got a work ethic you just can’t believe.”

Aside from that, he’s just good people, Rowe said.

“Having Elwood employed at Culver’s not only makes our business a better busi-ness, but it makes us better people,” he said. “If, IF, Elwood ever retires, he would be very much missed.”

Elwood works Mondays and Fridays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., sanitizing the cooking area, the table tops, and the bathrooms. He takes the booths apart – yes, takes them apart – and vacuums inside and all around. He scrapes the gum off the undersides of the tables. When it gets busy, he helps wait on customers.

In the summer, he also works Wednes-

days. Often, he’s the first person there, said Kayla Halfacre, Culver’s general manager.

“This is just a great place to work,” he said. “I’ve enjoyed every bit of it. Every-body treats me with dignity.”

Dignity, yes, and true affection, even love. No one says Elwood’s name without breaking into a smile; eyes soften and everyone, no matter their age, turns into a doting grandchild in his presence.

“He’s just the sweetest guy,” Halfacre said, adding that he knows all the employ-ees’ names, and gets to know them all individually.

“He has all our hearts,” team member Diane Novak said.

Technically, this may be Elwood’s fourth career. His first was serving as an Army Signal Corps cryptographer in World War II, with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Expedition-ary Force, first at the Palace of Versailles in France, then in Frankfurt, Germany.

All information about what was hap-pening in the war came through the headquarters, all the death and destruc-tion and misery funneled through the corps, but thankfully, “I didn’t have to shoot at anybody.”

On Veterans and Memorial days, he wears his brown ETO jacket, like the one Eisenhower made famous; it still fits his thin frame, although it is a little harder to zip up, he said, patting his tummy.

There’s another milestone ahead. Elwood and Eleanor will be married 64 years in May. “She’s been a wonderful person,” he said, gushing just a bit. “I owe my longevity to her. She’s a great cook.”

In typical humble Elwood Koch fash-ion, he also takes no credit for the hard work and sweet disposition that has taken him so far in life, and brought him so many friends.

“I’m here merely by the grace of God.”

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You can’t talk about turning 65 with-out talking about retirement, but most of the talk hasn’t been good. Reports about shrinking Social Security ben-efits and underfunded or nonexistent pensions have left many Americans believing retirement is a dream they may never realize.

With the release of his book, “You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think: The 5 Money Secrets of the Happiest Retirees” (McGraw Hill Education, $18), Atlanta-based financial planner Wes Moss offers something different – not just a plan to retire, but a way to do it sooner and to be happy when you do.

“We’ve been reading about how hor-rible retirement is in America,” Moss says. “There are all these scary statistics

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From the first chapter, Moss makes it clear that retirement isn’t all about the money. A survey of 1,350 current retir-ees from across the country helped him identify a few traits that can make you happy, or unhappy, during your retire-ment years.

For example, according to Moss’ sur-vey, happy retirees have a liquid net worth of at least $500,000; they have about three activities, hobbies or inter-ests they love to pursue and they have a home value of at least $300,000. They also have an annual retirement income at or near $82,770. Unhappy retirees average about $53,370.

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People in their 30s and 40s reading the book can use Moss’ plan as a guideline for getting on track. Older readers, age 55 and up, should focus on Part Three, which is devoted to Moss’ rules for income invest-ing.

Four of the five secrets to a happy retirement have to do with money, but the other one, the one about being happy, is what Moss always comes back to. Retirement gives you freedom, he says. Being able to fund the kind of retirement you desire gives you even more freedom. And freedom is what we all want.

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Mr. Ludwig: a special man with a special missionBY KATHLEEN A. SCHULTZ

[email protected], ext. 5535

Note to readers: To protect the privacy of Merrill School’s special ed students, we agreed not to use their names. Their quotes, taken from the poster they made, speak for themselves.

ROCK FALLS – He’s not a big guy, but still, those tiny plastic chairs can’t be comfort-able.

But that didn’t stop 80-year-old retired teacher Bill Ludwig from plunking down in one at least three mornings a week as a vol-unteer in Jan Whitlock’s third-grade special ed class at Merrill School.

On a Friday near the end of April, dressed in sneakers, jeans and a soft gray sweatshirt that complemented the silver of his beard,

the softness of his voice, Mr. Ludwig sat in one of those small chairs, at a low-to-the-ground table, working with a honey of a boy, whose black-brown eyes were intense as he and Mr. Ludwig talked about Max’s pony, who had run away in the earthquake.

“If his pony runs away, what’s going to

happen to Max? How is he going to get home?” he asked the boy, gently coaxing a conversation about the story his young charge had read. You’d never know it was a lesson in reading comprehension.

“The kids love him, especially the boys,” Whitlock said. “They can’t wait for him to come. He’s very kind and gentle with them. He never has a cross word to say.”

He’s modest, she added. He treats the kids with respect. But his greatest talent? “He’s really awesome with making the kids feel good about themselves.”

Mr. Ludwig’s devotion to these kids – devotion, truly; he can’t hide it – earned him one of this year’s Bi-County Coopera-tive Foundation Unsung Hero awards.

Alex T. Paschal/[email protected] Ludwig, a volunteer at Merrill Elementary School in Rock Falls, helps a third-grader in Jan Whitlock’s special educa-tion class with his reading assignment. Ludwig, who has been volunteering at the school for 4 years, was honored for his efforts in April with a Bi-County Cooperative Foundation Unsung Hero award.

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and gentle with them. He never has a cross word to say.Jan Whitlock, third-grade teacher


Alex T. Paschal/[email protected]. Ludwig looks over the poster his students surprised him with. “Oh, bless their souls. Isn’t that priceless?” he said as he read their tributes.

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He was surprised, he said, and very grate-ful.

But you couldn’t help but think that the greater gift came that Friday, when his kids presented him with a poster full of cards and pictures they had created, thanking him for ... well, being him.

“Mr. Ludwig Thank you for taking care of us. You are the best the hole class loves you.”

“Oh, bless their souls. Isn’t that price-less?” he said, a smile of sheer joy spread-ing across his face. “That’s the frosting on the cake.”

That love, it runs both ways.“You mean so much to me. Thank you

for spending all your time with us. It makes me feel happy.”

Merrill is not a rich school, and the spe-cial ed kids really have special needs. Many come from broken homes, have parents struggling just to keep their heads above water, sometimes don’t get enough to eat.

He helps these struggling students with their reading, their writing, their spelling.

But his most important job, he says, “is just talking to them and getting to know them.”

They “are desperately in need of love and attention,” he said.

And that’s something that Mr. Ludwig, as the kids are required to call him (although sometimes they slip and call him dude, as he does them), gives them in spades.

“Dear Mr. Ludwg thank you for what you did for us you are the best helper in the wold I love you for everything you did.”

It’s not just his time.Mr. Ludwig, who taught in the Erie school

system for 38 years before he retired, also brings Fruit Loops – for kids who didn’t make it in time for the free breakfast. And snacks. He brought socks at Christmas. So they wouldn’t be left out, he paid for his kids to participate in the school’s Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser.

“Thank you for every thing you did I flee happ. You get me stuff I need you are a hero.”

Bill Ludwig lives in Sterling, where he graduated from high school in 1952. He loves to garden, and he’s an avid reader.

He also volunteers at the Caring Place in Sterling a couple of days a week. He likes to keep busy.

Early in his career, he was a teacher at a boarding school for boys in Turkey. His mom was a foster grandparent; that’s how he got interested in working with young children in area schools. He volunteered at Dillon School before Merrill.

He’s been at Merrill for 4 years. He also works with its special ed fourth-graders.

He’s grandfatherly in every sense of the word, although he never married, never had kids of his own.

“This is my family,” he said.He encourages anyone and everyone to

volunteer at a school. Helping these stu-dents has been one of the best things he’s ever done.

“The only tragedy is they leave you,” he said. “and you don’t know where they go or what they become.”

“Your the best teacher ever and every day you help me with my morning work. So i mad you dis card. I love you.”

So do we.“I think you are sweet Mr. Ludwig. You

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PHILADELPHIA – Patricia Ray Guckes’ husband never wanted her to work. So she painted.

Up at 5 every morning, before her hus-band and two daughters, Guckes sat on a stool facing her easel in the kitchen of her Lower Moreland, Pennsylvania, home.

She imagined pretty pictures and paint-ed them, many smaller than a playing card. Then the chaos of the morning took over.

For decades, Patty Ray Guckes’ rou-tine yielded portraits, ocean scenes, and paintings of delicately rendered birds, but only recently did she exhibit in her first show – at age 82.

This month, Guckes was one of several artists featured in a small show at Abing-ton Memorial Hospital. She has booked another for the fall, and a gallery owner in Lambertville, New Jersey, wants to see more of her work.

Family had taken precedence over her hobby, but one of her daughters died in 2010 and her husband died in December while she was with him on a cruise.

“My neighbor said, ‘What are you going to do with your life?’” Guckes said. She said she responded, “I always wanted to be a famous artist.”

In the ninth decade of her life, that is what Guckes is setting out to do. She has enough product. The paintings fill her home – against walls, under beds, and even in the shower stalls of a house outfit-ted with furnishings that look as if they

came from the set of “Mad Men.”That is just one of the ways that Guckes

seems a woman from another time. She says her husband, James, did everything.

He made the money, paid the bills, and drove the car.

“I never even had an allowance,” Guckes said. “He said, you don’t need it. I’ll buy you anything you want.”

James Guckes, a mechanical engineer and businessman, kept his wife sheltered from the “stress and problems” of every-day life, said the couple’s daughter, Patri-cia Lee Wilson of Doylestown, Pennsylva-nia. But now, there is no longer a shelter.

“I showed her how to pay a bill, and she’s been paying them ever since,” Wilson said

of the time since her father died. “She even called a plumber over to fix the sink.”

Guckes plans to buy a car and start driv-ing again, after years of relying on her husband or her own feet. When he didn’t drive her, Guckes walked the 3.5 miles to Willow Grove Park or the grocery.

Now that she has art to sell, Guckes plans on buying a hatchback, stocking it full of her art, and driving it around to shop her work. She’s worried about mak-ing ends meet.

Guckes began sketching as a youngster. She took one art course while earning her bachelor’s degree in home economics at what is now McDaniel College in West-minster, Maryland.

Her dream – to be a famous artistPainter exhibits artwork in first show at age 82

MCT News ServicePatty Guckes, an 82-year-old artist who specializes in the tiny paintings that hang inside dollhouses, poses for a portrait with some of her work in her Huntington Val-ley, Pennsylvania, home.

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Guckes met her husband at the Shore while she worked as a waitress at the Chatterbox, an Ocean City mainstay.

They married a year later, and Guckes began life as a homemaker. Her husband bought her a paint set to keep her from being bored. She often painted with her daughters.

“I would draw her, and she would draw me,” said Wilson, a former art teacher. Wilson’s younger sister, Stephanie Gehlert, is deceased.

During 14 of the family’s summers in Ocean City, Guckes taught at the Ocean City Arts Center. She began specializing in miniatures, painting replicas of mas-terworks that adorn dollhouses, includ-ing works by Mary Cassatt and Johannes Vermeer.

In the 1980s, several of her pieces were part of a dollhouse exhibited at the White House during the Christmas season, Guckes said.

Guckes also painted some of her work on commission.

But family took precedence. When her husband became ill with a serious heart condition, she tended to him.

“She had to be with my dad,” Wilson said. “I think, now she is free to pursue her art.”

Neighbor Katie Sullivan is helping her. She often sees Guckes in the midst of the

three-mile walk to the store and offers her a ride.

“She’s an emotional wreck,” Sullivan said. “But her eyes need to be open. Her husband is not here.”

Sullivan helped facilitate Guckes’ par-

ticipation in the Abington show. Guckes sold two paintings, one for $500.

“She has thousands of pieces of art that she never sold,” Sullivan said. “I encour-aged her to use her art as a way of gain-ing financial independence.”

MCT News ServiceA miniature reproduction of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” painted by Patty Guckes is next to a copy of the painting that she worked from at her home.

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