{"id":9734,"date":"2022-06-01T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9734"},"modified":"2022-06-29T21:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:02:04","slug":"june-2022-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9734","title":{"rendered":"June 2022 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The People of the Park\u2026<\/h3>\n

Jacquelyn \u201cJaci\u201d Allensworth<\/h1>\n

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As we profile folks at Silveridge, we get to hear some charming stories about how couples in the park got together — what in rom-com movies is known as a \u201cmeet-cute.\u201d When talking with Jaci Allensworth, we heard of the unlikeliest of workplace settings for romance to blossom. Here\u2019s how Jaci recalled first getting to know her future husband, John:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI grew up in Southwest Iowa, in Silver City, where my dad was a dairy farmer. When I was a sophomore in high school in Council Bluffs, they offered a college course in stenography and\u00a0one week after graduating from high school, at the age of 17, I went to work as a stenographer for the government. Then, I moved to Iowa City and went to work for the VA. One of my jobs was typing autopsy reports. And John had gone to work for the VA right out of high school, and he was a morgue attendant. That\u2019s how we met. He was very conscious of not smelling like all the chemicals from the lab, so he wore a lot of Aqua Velva. Sometimes I would smell him in the hall before I\u2019d see him. Even now, my favorite smell is Aqua Velva mixed with formaldehyde.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Can\u2019t you picture that in a movie? And it might also feature our heroine, Jaci, struggling in her new job, as was the case in real life. She said of typing those autopsies, \u201cI was terrible! I had no medical background and no knowledge of medical terms. One day one of the doctors put a medical dictionary on my desk and said, \u2018This is your Bible. Study it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Photo: John and Jaci on a date)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Jaci and John eventually married and this was a case where Jaci was glad to take her husband\u2019s name of Allensworth. That\u2019s because her maiden name was Skank. She recounted how one of their three kids, their son Jeff, went on to become a minister in St. Louis and liked to joke by telling people, \u201cMy mother was a Skank.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Speaking of those three children, Jaci said that she tried being a stay-at-home mom and quickly came to this conclusion: \u201cIt was awful.\u201d So she went back to work. Meanwhile, John\u2019s talents were recognized within the VA and he became a specialist in dialysis, what\u2019s known as dialysis tech. He even received a commendation from the VA for an innovation of his that allowed multiple patients to share dialysis machines.<\/p>\n

(Photo: The Allensworths \u2013 Jerry, John, Jeffrey, Jaci and Joni)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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After the kids left home, Jaci and John moved to Marion, Illinois, where she became Staff Assistant to the Director\/Patient Representative at the Marion VA Medical Center.\u00a0While living in Southern Illinois, they owned a home on the beautiful Lake of the Egypt.<\/p>\n

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Both eventually retired, but Jaci wasn\u2019t quite ready to give up working. The two bought a park model in Silveridge and an RV and she would do transcriptions from the road, typing away in the RV.<\/p>\n

COMING TO SILVERIDGE<\/h4>\n

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Here\u2019s how Jaci explained the couple\u2019s discovery of Silveridge:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur daughter met this guy and moved to Mesa, Arizona and had a baby. We wanted to come see the baby and a former coworker was at Silveridge. She found us a place, staying in the home of a lady going on a cruise. We fell in love with the park. The summer of 2002, we came back and bought a park model, and in 2004, we moved here permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One of the park\u2019s amenities that Jaci gravitated to was the library, saying, \u201cI really enjoy it and use it.\u201d And she liked how there was no library card or check-out of books. \u201cWe\u2019re all adults here;\u00a0we know to bring books back.\u201d So when Jaci was asked to help out at the library over the summer, she gladly agreed to join in helping her friends Sandy and Jeannette.\u00a0(During the winter season, the library is headed by Deb Scherbring, along with many other volunteers.)<\/p>\n

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However, you won\u2019t see Jaci in the library for a while, starting in early June. That\u2019s because she\u2019ll be travelling to visit family and to take part in a celebration of life for John. Both Jaci and John were hospitalized with Covid back before vaccines were available. John didn\u2019t survive. The family put off having services till they were able to gather. They\u2019ll be doing that this summer.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s end with a touching story about people of the park supporting one another in difficult times. This is Jaci\u2019s memory from those days when deciding on a permanent move to Silveridge: \u201cWe\u2019d gotten to know a gentleman at the park who did some remodeling on our Arizona room. He was a regular on the softball team and everybody knew him. At the time there were two teams, the Silver and the Gold, who were playing each other. He wasn\u2019t at the game because his wife had had a stroke. He finally had to make the decision to end life support and he came out to the softball field to tell us his wife had died. When he showed up, the two teams lined up facing each other and he went down the line and everyone hugged him. I turned to my husband and said, \u2018John, I want to live here.\u2019 Everyone was so loving.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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