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VOL. 47 NO. 4 | MAY 2020 Retired doctor has prescription for a good life

By Adam Worcester re-engaging a childhood coronavirus and its resultant interest. COVID-19 disease. EVERETT — Shelly Finn Whatever you choose, “Most older people have has a message for older it’s important to maintain been through some crisis like Americans, coronavirus or human contact. Look to this before. You get better no. Homage, colleges, libraries at coping with major events “Just because (your life) and parks for other people through practice,” Finn says. wasn’t what you had before,” who share your interests. She likens COVID-19 to the says the recently retired phy- Build a cohort of peers who arrival of AIDS in the early sician, “doesn’t mean it can’t can regularly check on each ‘90s, when the mysterious be fun.” other. virus was spreading fast and She should know. Spending time with getting it seemed a certain Finn, 59, saw mostly older younger persons, such as death sentence. patients in her 30-year career children and grandkids, As scientists learned more as an internist at the Everett strengthens your social they developed treatments Clinic. She now serves on the safety net and enriches both and precautions that have Homage board of directors, generations. since kept AIDS under and will start a new column “We sometimes just control. for seniors called “The Doc- assume mental health will “We’re going to see the tor is In” in the June Homage. happen,” Finn says. “Like worst of it at the beginning,” “When you look at the physical health, we have to says Finn. “There are way too aging population she has think about it a little more. many unknowns right now. served, then realize as a We have to ask, ‘Am I reach- It’s going to get easier.” human she is going through ing out? Am I trying to When home sheltering to some of the same challenges, remain curious?’” protect against COVID-19 you have this person who Physical fitness is also vital comes to an end, Finn wants brings a unique perspective for older people. The first older Americans ready to to the room,” says Cynthia step, says Finn, is identifying step back into the world with Andrews, Homage Senior what result you’re aiming everyone else. Marketing and Communica- for — flexibility, weight loss, Though life will be dif- tions Manager. “Her energy strength training, etc. ferent when the economy is infectious.” Then, don’t rush it. reopens, seniors can Finn grew up skiing, “A lot of people think they approach it in a positive way hiking, and playing tennis Dr. Shelly Finn serves on the Homage Board of Directors. can go back to what they by exercising Finn’s three during a peripatetic child- were doing at 30,” Finn says. keys to living their best life: hood that began in Arkansas a water park and a worker productive. “You have to start really 1) stay curious, 2) stay active, and included stops in Mon- called her “ma’am.” Her number-one piece of slowly.” 3) stay resilient. tana, Arizona, Idaho, and the “You don’t always see it in advice: stay curious. Finally, the doctor urges “I don’t think anybody gets University of Washington, yourself. You see it in how Everyone can find a pur- older Americans to celebrate to be 59 or 60 without knowl- where she earned her medi- other people react to you,” pose or passion to connect their resilience. edge of their body changing,” cal degree. Finn says. with, she says. It might be They have survived past Finn says. “The question is, She never viewed herself Her goal with the new continuing something you health scares such as the ‘How can I live the best life I as aging until her mid-40s, column is to help older peo- have done all your life, Spanish Flu, AIDS and SARS, can? What’s the next adven- when she took her kids to ple be healthy, happy, and trying something new, or and they will also survive ture around the corner?’” Honoring Marian Harrison, a Snohomish County trailblazer By Ramonda Sosa in Seattle and losing a den mother and a enjoyed the team she opportunities didn’t Homage Social Services her husband in the union representative. described as a “close end there, and Mar- Director Korean War, Marian She became actively knit family, working ian has been a force in Marian Harrison’s returned to the Arling- involved in the union for the common good.” legislative advocacy as trailblazing journey as ton area where she and educator’s rights, The program eventu- well. The first Afri- a reformist and com- remarried and became and Marian’s path for ally lost funding and can American elected munity transformer the mother of seven advocacy, reform and had to end, but Marian the Chair of, not one, began generations children. Marian’s community transfor- continued to advocate but two Democratic before she was born. days weren’t limited mation took hold. for the community. Legislative Districts. Perseverance and to raising children ■ Ultimately, Marian Marian has held key dedication are in Mar- and taking care of the Volunteering evolved found herself serving positions in the Sno- ian’s family lineage. home though. She to school board posi- on Governor Booth homish County League Her great grandmother learned and worked tions and from there Gardner’s Committee of Women Voters and Louisa Donnelson, in the Arlington Com- she launched into on Education Reform is currently the Chair born into slavery, made Marian Harrison munity, becoming the other community and the Snohomish of the North Unit of her way from Abbeville, first African American service. Marian vol- County Foster Care the League of Women South Carolina to Ever- on the farm for 8 years to work in the Arling- unteered with at risk Review Board to work Voters. She has ett. Grandma Louisa after the marriage ton School District as youth on the Fam- with ‘out of home’ assisted with countless married a Norwood, failed. Times were a teacher aide. Marian ily Policy Council as placement of children but found herself hard for the family; started volunteering part of the Health and and reuniting families. widowed at a young Marian described the after being asked to be Safety Network, and Volunteering CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 age and remarried Mr. farming community as Donnelson, who, inter- a “family” and “there estingly, also was from for each other,” and ATTENTION SENIORS AND EMPTY NESTERS Abbeville, SC. Louisa shares a memory of and her husband, along an older farmer car- Are you thinking of selling a place you call HOME? with her son George rying a large sack of Washington Norwood, potatoes nearly a mile his wife, and their son to their home to help George Washington her family with food. DON’T DO A THING! Until… you’ve read this report: Norwood Jr., moved to During this post-de- Everett before the turn pression era farm life 11 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW to Pass a Home Inspection… of the 20th century. was a struggle. The Marian’s father George Danish, German and BEFORE you list your home for sale… not after! Washington Norwood Japanese families in Jr. had met and mar- the area stuck together ried her mother in for community pros- A new report has been prepared which identifi es Chicago during WWI. perity. This dedication the 11 most common problems, Marian’s mother was to community and from Normal, Illinois, mutual support would and what you should know about them and moved to Everett influence Marian in the where her husband’s years to come. before you list your home for sale. family lived. After the ■ war Marian’s mother Marian started and father moved to a school in Arlington, farm on Jordan Road graduated from Marys- This report is courtesy of Authority Real Estate. east of Arlington. The ville High School, *Not intended to solicit properties currently for sale. only African Ameri- attended Everett Com- can family in the area, munity College and Marian’s mother and University of Wash- GET YOUR FREE COPY TODAY! ext 3159 the children remained ington. After living 800-344-0807 2 May 2020 Homage Comment: Honoring older Americans By Rep. Rick Larsen ask for your personal information. Seniors eligible Congress. I am working hard to strengthen Medi- Washington’s Second Congressional District for the payment may check the status of their pay- care, protect Social Security and advocate for ment at irs.gov/coronavirus/ other critical resources for May is Older Americans Month, a great time get-my-payment. seniors in Northwest Wash- to celebrate the contributions older Washingto- I have also been an advo- ington, including veterans’ nians make to communities here in the Pacific cate for strengthening senior benefits and nutrition assis- Northwest. More than 125,000 seniors (age 65 and nutrition programs. Accord- tance. For example, last year, older) lead active lives in Washington state’s Sec- ing to Food Lifeline, the need I supported reauthorization ond Congressional District, including my mom for food here in Washington of the Older Americans Act who still calls Arlington home. has nearly doubled since the which helps provide a vari- As the country continues to deal with COVID- beginning of the pandemic. ety of vital social services, 19 and the necessary public health measures to The Families First Coronavi- including Meal on Wheels, prevent further spread, I am working on behalf rus Response Act provided assistance for caregivers and of Washington’s seniors. In March, Congress flexibility and funding to sup- transportation assistance. passed bipartisan legislation which included port nutrition programs as “I encourage you to check direct stimulus payments to Washingtonians to providers adapted to socially in with your family, friends help make ends meet. The one-time payment distant meal distribution. and neighbors to see how is $1,200 for each adult whose income does not Most recently, the House they are doing during this exceed $75,000 ($112,500 for head of house- passed legislation to increase difficult time. Washington hold, $150,000 for married joint filers). All Social the minimum SNAP benefit state, the Pacific Northwest Security and SSI beneficiaries will receive the to ensure Washingtonians and the entire country have payment, unless claimed as a dependent or ineli- can continue to access the endured difficult times and gible based on income limits. The payment is not food they need. I know will emerge from subject to federal income tax and will not affect Although much of the Rep. Rick Larsen the pandemic stronger than eligibility or assistance amount for any federally country’s focus rightfully before. If you need assis- funded public assistance program. remains on COVID-19 tance, please call my district Please be especially vigilant of scams related to response and recovery efforts, I am looking ahead office at 425-252-3188 or email me at rick.larsen@ these payments. The IRS will not call or email to to other important work that remains before mail.house.gov. TRAILBLAZER Social Security and protecting elders from scams CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Social Security people into providing Tell you about it’s from Social Secu- campaigns and State Democratic Regional Public personal information crimes committed in rity or Social Security’s helped write a Warren G. Magnuson Affairs Office or money. In times like your name, or offer to Office of the Inspector legislative bill to Award. the current pandemic resolve identity theft General (OIG). Don’t change the way Like her great June is World Elder when people are par- or a benefit problem in believe them! Social classified school grandmother Louisa, Abuse Awareness ticularly vulnerable, exchange for payment. Security will NEVER employees earned who transformed Month. Throughout the scammers will pre- Request a specific email you attachments credit for hours herself from slavery month, government tend to be government means of debt repay- that have your personal worked in the State to living and starting agencies, businesses, employees, often from ment, like a retail gift information in them. Retirement System. a new life on the and organizations Social Security, to gain card, prepaid debit If you ever owe This earned her an opposite side of the sponsor events to unite people’s trust to steal card, wire transfer, money to Social appointment to the country, Marian communities, seniors, their money and per- internet currency, or Security, the agency State Retirement has taken the same caregivers, govern- sonal information. The cash. will mail you a letter, System Advisory monumental steps ments, and the private most effective way to Insist on secrecy explaining your pay- Board and the Public with her commitment sector to prevent the defeat scammers is by about a legal problem, ment options and your Employee Benefit and dedication to mistreatment of and knowing how to iden- or tell you to make appeal rights. If you get Board. Marian’s trail changing life for violence against older tify scams then hanging up stories to tell fam- a call about a Social through legislative the good, setting people. up or ignoring the calls. ily, friends, or store Security problem, be leadership culminated an example for all Scammers often tar- What you can do employees. very cautious. If you do with receiving the who call Snohomish get older people. They If you get a Social Scammers continue not have ongoing busi- esteemed Washington County home. use fear to pressure Security scam phone to develop new ways ness with the agency, call, hang up, report it to mislead you. They or if the caller mentions to our law enforcement might use the names suspending your Social office at oig.ssa.gov, of Social Security Security number or Do you need quick and tell your family and officials and tell you makes other threats, help preparing a friends about it! We’re to look them up on the call is likely a scam. telling as many people our public websites Ignore it, hang up, and home for sale? as we can that gov- (where they learned report it to us at oig. ernment agencies will the names themselves). ssa.gov. We are work- never: Or, they might email ing to stop the scams Tell you that your you official-looking and educate people Social Security number documents with a let- to avoid becoming has been suspended. terhead that looks like victims.

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The Care Transition program management. Homage care coor- to community resources. Sounds needs to be an adult 18 years and assists patients discharging from dinators have a strong connection like you have a great referral to the older. acute care settings successfully to community resources, and work Care Transition program. Does the patient need to be transition to home and other to eliminate barriers to health. Is there a cost for this program? diagnosed with COVID-19? No, community-based environments. No charges or fees, the program we are accepting any discharged During the four-week to eight-week Care Transition FAQs is funded by Snohomish County participant that is in need of addi- program, Homage care coordina- Human Services. tional support. tors engage with clients and their Do I have to be health care Does the patient need to have I have a patient that needs informal supports, if applicable, provider to refer? No, you can be insurance? The program wel- some additional support, but with complex health needs to set a family member, social worker or comes insured or uninsured they’ve been out of the hospital health goals and learn self-man- counselor. participants. for 2 weeks. Are they eligible? Yes, agement skills with the goal of I have a patient discharging Income qualification? Does the as long as their discharge date is reducing readmission to an acute from our skilled nursing facility patient have to be low income? No, within 30 days of the referral. care facility. The program contracts and I feel they will need extra sup- there is no income qualification. How do I refer? Call 425-513- with Full Life Care to provide addi- port with medication management, Does the patient have to be 60 1900 or email us at seniorinfo@ tional supports with medication coordination of care, or connecting and over? No, the patient only homage.org. Residents of assisted living home make mask kits for neighbors

By Sophie Sherry with.” Chicago Tribune Those picking up the kits are encouraged to distribute Each day, 98-year-old Lor- them to elderly neighbors raine Kozak sits at a table in and at nearby assisted living her nursing home and care- centers. “People have been fully cuts out swatches of religiously coming by to pick fabric and places them into up kits every night,” Sander plastic bags with elastic and said. instructions on how to turn With the Centers for Dis- them into face masks. ease Control and Prevention Then these kits are placed now encouraging everyone outside The Birches Assisted to wear a mask while out- Living in Clarendon Hills, side, Sander said she has Ill., near Chicago, for some- seen many more people one to pick up and distribute picking up kits to sew for to neighbors who need them their own family and chil- during the coronavirus out- dren. The residents can put break. Each kit can make up together 10 to 15 kits a day. to 10 masks. There are no cases of coro- “I feel like I’m helping,” navirus at The Birches, but Kozak said by phone. “I the outbreak still weighs on can’t be out there with the residents, Sander said. Vis- health care workers, but at itors are no longer allowed least I feel like I’m doing Jacqueline Sander, executive director, and Lorraine Kozak, resident, of The Birches Assisted inside, so the center is doing something.” Living on April 8 in Clarendon Hills, Ill. They have been cutting fabric and assembling mask what it can to keep residents The executive director of kits for the community to pick up and sew. (Chicago Tribune) connected with friends and The Birches, Jackie Sander, family. said she knew hospitals were donations of materials for masks, but the facility response,” Kozak said. “They are concerned not accepting homemade residents to make masks and received so many dona- “There’s a lot of people for what’s going on in the fabric masks but thought was overwhelmed by the tions they couldn’t sew fast involved in the Clarendon world,” Sander said. “This other nursing homes in the response. enough. So they decided Hills area, donating the has been giving them some area could use them. Sander She had originally planned instead to create the kits. material and then picking up sort of purpose to keep them said she put a call out for on residents making the “It’s been a wonderful the kits to make the masks positive.”

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By Christine Vervitsiotis for care, and insurance is really quite small. long-term homebound in general, Mental Health and Wellness Manager, companies have been We don’t rely on a are amazingly resilient. What is dev- Homage surprisingly quick to caregiver to wash our astating loss of self to us is actually cover these remote hair. We don’t have to just another day for many of them. Isolation sucks. services. Still, experts add several hours on They are living isolation. That’s not I think we can all agree on that warn that mental health top of our trip time okay. right now. Of course, there are some services will see an so that we can take This is an opportunity to see the of us who are bragging about the explosion of need as our accessible transpor- people we don’t usually see — to new hobbies we’ve picked up, or population increasingly tation. We don’t have grow in empathy, to expand our abil- how grateful we are to have time to struggles to manage the to worry about where ity to meet people where they are, breathe. There are others of us who aftermath of COVID-19: we are going to use the to make mental health treatment are moaning about how we can’t the increased anxiety, bathroom, or an unex- for those on Medicare a priority. travel abroad this summer. You can’t depression, and attempts pected delay causing We have minimized the need for see my face right now, but I’m roll- to self-medicate using our oxygen tank levels too long. It is time to stop taking ing my eyes. And I don’t have “real” alcohol and drugs. Christine Vervitsiotis to get precariously low. advantage of the determination problems. We’ve all lost our sense COVID-19 has given and resiliency of our homebound It’s a funny time to be in the men- of normalcy, whether it’s traveling us a small taste of the emotional neighbors. tal health business. All of a sudden, to Europe in the summer or going struggle that the long-term home- My hope is that when we start my thoughts are being solicited reg- to the grocery store without wearing bound have always faced – the fear, returning to our lives that we ularly. Isolation triggers depression a mask. We have lost our feelings of the uncertainty, and the isolation. don’t forget those who cannot. and stress. What can we do? How control, our sense of self, and our At Homage, we provide in-home This experience must deepen our can we help? Medical and men- understanding of our place in the care coordination and mental health commitment to funding mental tal health professionals have been world. It is ridiculously hard. services. We talk all the time about health and chemical dependency able to pivot to virtual platforms The truth is that our inconvenience the impact of isolation and the treatment adequately, and in a importance of support – not only way that meets the unique needs medical but also emotional and of a homebound population. They Silver View Senior Apartments community. Older adults, and the deserve it. Subsidized 62+ Community Outbreak compels first-time blood donor Features & Amenities:  Social Service Coordinator The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio usual times. Things have changed so  One bedroom apartments drastically, so rapidly in society, that  Laundry facilities on site COLUMBUS, Ohio — Terry Mel- donating blood was something the lons sat in one of the stackable chairs 67-year-old retired factory worker  Community room with kitchen that someone had pulled from inside felt compelled to do for the first time. and outdoor patio for a conference room and strategically “I’ve written a few checks to recreation and entertainment spread apart in various spots on charities but everyone feels kind of the concrete entryway leading into helpless right now,” he said. “This is  Access-controlled building and Capital University’s student union in a special time and I figured I needed emergency alert system Bexley, Ohio. to pitch in some way.”  All units are wheelchair Thankfully, the day’s pouring Recently, Annette Titus sat just accessible rain had subsided and the sun beat inside the door to register Mellons. down as he waited until a phlebot- Purple gloves covered her hands, Silver View Senior Apartments  Close to shopping and services omist with the American Red Cross a mask shielded half her face. The 11109 16th Ave. S.E., Everett 98208  Income restrictions apply called him to the door. Only if Maya mask previously was not typical For information and application,  Pets welcome Pearce’s thermometer didn’t register equipment before the coronavirus call 425.339.1031 a fever when she took his tempera- outbreak. ture could Mellons enter to donate a “I hear it’s your first time,” she pint of blood at this recently sched- greeted Mellons. uled drive. “Yes,” he said, looking sheepish. This is not the usual way of things “I don’t know why I never did this for the Red Cross, but these are not before.”

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Thank you to all our generous Rotary clubs band together to help those in need donors for your rapid response When Rotary District 5050 provided grants to local Rotary clubs to address to this urgent crisis facing our the current hunger crisis, five of those clubs pooled their resources older adult community. to make an even larger impact. The Everett Port Gardner Rotary, Everett Rotary, South Everett/ Mukilteo Rotary, Monroe Rotary, and Snohomish County Rotaract matched their grants for a combined One couple, twice the impact total of $10,000. For Ralph and Doreen Boy, philanthropy is a way of life and they truly enjoy a hands on approach “We selected six organizations to receive the funds in the form with their involvement. of Gift Cards to QFC Stores. QFC donated an additional $500,” said Reid Shockey, President of the Everett Port Gardner Rota- Ralph said after he and Doreen finished making 100+ masks for frontline workers, they asked them- ry. “We focused on charitable organizations that would serve selves, “now what can we do?” It was an article in the newspaper that sparked an idea. families with children who do not have access to reduced lunch programs; and organizations that serve our senior citizens Amazon saved a local catering company from closing by paying them to make 2,700 meals a day for whose incomes limit their access to food and nutrition. Homage people in public housing. Ralph thought, “I can do something like that…not on the same scale, but was a logical choice.” maybe I can help one of my favorite restaurants AND the community!” Because of the Rotary’s combined generosity, Homage received A few phone calls later, and Ralph and Doreen partnered with Buck’s American Grill to provide 50 40 QFC gift cards to give to our most vulnerable clients. This box lunches each week for Homage’s frontline Meals on Wheels and Transportation drivers. generous gift means folks can get the food and basic necessities they need to survive. It means the difference between empty stomachs and full cupboards. “Ralph and Doreen brighten our day! They stop by just after 8am with their Subaru filled with boxed lunches for us and then we’re on the road delivering meals to our most Thank you to our local Rotary clubs for supporting and caring vulnerable seniors. We love what we do and we care so much for our clients, but it’s also for older adults, especially during this urgent time of need. heartwarming to know folks care about us as well.” Lance, Meals on Wheels Driver Paying it forward doesn’t always “Doreen and I feel so fortunate and we believe it’s important to require money do something that has a meaning- ful impact. If we can support our It was the first week in April when Linda called Homage to see frontline folks and help a local if our frontline workers needed masks. “Linda’s call couldn’t business during this frightening have come at a better time,” said Leah Hammon, Homage’s time, then it’s a win/win. We call Sr. Nutrition Manager. “Masks were difficult to obtain and we it a 2fer.” needed to protect our Meals on Wheels and Congregate delivery drivers as well as the clients we serve.” Linda had been volun- teering at the Carl Gipson Ralph and Doreen Senior Center for three deliver meals to years teaching art and craft frontline staff. classes. “When the Center closed because of the virus, I wanted to continue to use my crafting skills to help our Local business does a “cool” thing community in some way. I had material and a sewing With the increased demand for Meals on Wheels, Homage quickly found its walk-in refrigerators machine and I could make overly crowded and urgently needed to increase cold storage space. That’s when Paul Lauch, masks!” Linda Lee Homage Facilities Supervisor, decided to reach out to his network and, through a connection with a Homage volunteer, found Mckinney Trailer Rentals. The first place Linda thought of was Homage. “Four years ago, my neighbor told me about Homage’s Minor Home Repair Pro- “We needed to find a solution fast. I figured it didn’t hurt to ask, and so I did!” said Paul. gram. I applied for the program and qualified. The young man that came to my home was professional and just wonderful. He Mckinney Trailer Rentals responded quickly and generously donated use of a 28-foot refrigerated even installed smoke and carbon dioxide detectors without my trailer for three months. This space will help store meals before they’re delivered to our homebound asking. I never want to take anything for granted, so I knew, if I neighbors. could help those workers at Homage, I would.”

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The Charlotte Observer believe it,” Reimanis said by phone who signed on to give lessons to She had no teachers and no sheet one afternoon, her gleeful laughter low-income and at-risk students music. So when she found someone CHARLOTTE, N.C. — At 92 years filling the phone line. when the non-profit Community with a piece of music, she’d find a old and with more than six decades “I called the school (Arts Plus) and School of the Arts was in its infancy piece of paper and copy it down by of piano teaching experience behind I said, ‘I am Skyping!’ A 92-year-old in 1969. She still works for the orga- hand. her, you’d think Dzidra Reimanis has woman is learning how to Skype!” nization, now called Arts Plus. In one of the camps, she would had every experience with students When we first meet Reimanis in The McKnights, who are homes- spend night after night making one could possibly have. her Dilworth music room where she chooled and able to take lessons in music on a beat-up old upright But recently, she surprised even teaches, it’s approaching noon on the middle of a weekday, have been piano in the basement of an Army herself by adding a new skill to a chilly winter Thursday before the studying with Reimanis for four building. Through the melodies, she her teaching arsenal — online pandemic struck. Reimanis is wrap- years — a fraction of her teaching would seek to answer the question: instruction. ping up nearly two hours of lessons career. “Why am I here?” It all started in mid March, when a for the three McKnight sisters, ages Charlotte McKnight, the girls’ She married while in Germany, director at Arts Plus, the 12, 8 and 6. mom, said she knew Reimanis was then came to the United States in arts education non-profit She perches on the a star when she went to dinner with 1949, and she and her husband set- that Reimanis teaches edge of a red cane back an older couple soon after making tled in Charlotte. She got a job in an for, told private teachers chair and coaxes Kendall, the switch from another local piano office and learned to type. they’d need to start doing 6, through “Gallop, Pony,” teacher to Reimanis. She and her husband spent $90 for virtual lessons because pointing in the music and “They asked me who our piano a piano and Reimanis began study- of the novel coronavirus adjusting the position of teacher was,” Charlotte McKnight ing piano under Queens University pandemic. Kendall’s tiny fingers as recalled. “I said Dzidra’s name, and of Charlotte (then Queens College) Reimanis, whose she goes. the woman was like, ‘She taught me professor Elsie Mosley. computer know-how “Forte! Boom! Boom! piano. “ When she was about 25, she came consisted only of Goo- Make your fingers go Reimanis laughs. But she doesn’t down with tuberculosis. She spent gle searches and reading firm against the keys,” look a bit surprised. more than a year in a Huntersville — but never sending — Reimanis said in her Reimanis was born in 1927 in sanatorium recovering, six months email, wasn’t having it. Latvian-accented sing- Latvia’s capital city of Riga, to of that lying flat on her back. “I told him, ‘I definitely Dzidra Reimanis song voice, keeping music-loving parents. Her father Doctors thought she was better, will not do that, and you rhythm with the music. played coronet in a local band. Her and released her. But within a year might as well accept it,’” “Bam, bam, bam, bam. mom, blessed with perfect pitch, she relapsed and found herself back she said proudly, then laughed. One-two-three-four.” sang in a popular choir before hav- in Huntersville. She needed a sec- But parents called with encourag- One hundred and five straight ing children. tion of lung removed. ing words. minutes of piano lessons could Reimanis isn’t sure when she first Once she had recovered the sec- “You can do this,” said one mother. be mentally exhausting for any sat down to a piano, but she knows ond time, Mosley urged Reimanis to A 33-year-old student, who’d teacher, and if anyone has reason to it was early. “Mother and me, we quit her office job and implored her: gifted her a new Dell desktop com- be fatigued, it’s Remainis. But she always argued. I thought I was about You need to make music your life. puter a few months back, came over, doesn’t. 8, and she said, ‘You were 6 or 7.’ “ And so she did. opened up Skype and showed her “I never get tired,” she said. In the 1920s and ‘30s her mother In addition to studying intensively, that with three clicks she can con- After more than five decades of ran a factory that gathered the milk Reimanis started teaching and never nect with a student and peer right teaching piano in Charlotte, she from 200 farmers and produced stopped. inside their home. remains one of the city’s most dairy goods to export to England. Her first students were two girls Suddenly, Reimanis was in the sought-after piano teachers. But during World War II, the Ger- whose parents were Latvian. Then, game. Reimanis has taught three gen- mans invaded and Reimanis’ family as word of her teaching prowess When a former student who’s now erations of students in the same fled to an American military zone in spread, her student list grew lon- a big-shot composer, Daniel Thomas family. She taught a student named Germany. She was 17. ger, until it reached 60. Teaching felt Davis, called her recently to check Dominick Amendum who went on Several times, the family was natural. in, she told him she’d ring him back conduct “Wicked” on Broadway, and forced to move to different dis- “I think I’m a dictator,” Reimanis via Skype, and the two caught up Davis, who composes for operas and placed persons camps, but each laughed. “I like to tell everybody face-to-face. orchestras worldwide. time Reimanis would find a piano, what to do.”

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When Gerhard Lane left for China in August of 1935 his goal was to save souls not to take them, but history sometimes puts us on a path not of our choosing. His mission to China was the first since being ordained in the Norwegian Lutheran Church. The young 26-year-old missionary and his new Gerhard Lane played left forward on the 1926 Stanwood High School wife were soon to find basketball team. themselves working to survive as the world sank into the dark pit of global war. Gerhard Almer Lane was following in the footsteps of his father, the Reverend George Lane. George Lane had been the pas- This photo of Gerhard Lane was published tor of both the Zion in 1943, the year after he was killed in the Lutheran Church and Philippines. Our Saviour’s Lutheran in Bellingham where starter at left forward Church the same year. Gerhard was born on for Stanwood’s basket- After graduating from August 11, 1909 but ball team and he took Pacific Lutheran in moved the family to first place in the city’s 1929, he studied for Stanwood in 1918 after annual bicycle race for a time at Luther Col- accepting a pastorate the half- mile, winning lege in Decorah, Iowa in that city. Gerhard a gold watch in 1924. and graduated from appears to have been Gerhard skipped his Norwegian Lutheran a popular student; senior year at Stan- Seminary in St. Paul in outgoing and talented. wood and instead 1935. He was elected Assis- enrolled in Pacific Spring 1935 certainly tant Yell Leader of the Lutheran College near must have felt to Ger- Lane played on the Pacific Lutheran University basketball team in 1927. Student Body Associa- Tacoma in 1927 where hard as a time of great (Courtesy of Pacific Lutheran University Archives and Special Collections) tion of Stanwood High his multi-talented abili- promise. Ordained School in 1925, acted in ties were again evident. as a new minister on he gave a last sermon agency in Hankow its elementary school the school play, was a There he performed in May 27th, he married at his father’s Phinney which sat along the and the dormitories for member of the school the choir, worked on Helen Wing, a resi- Ridge Lutheran Church Yangtze River. The the Chinese students— orchestra and chosen the school’s newspa- dent of Minneapolis, in Seattle entitled quarter-million-dollar the best American business manager of per The Mooring Mast, on June 2nd. After a “Persevere in Prayer.” compound had a moat- school in the area, his Sophomore class. and had a lead role in honeymoon along the Gerhard and Helen like canal at the foot of wrote Frillman. He was also Secretary/ the school play. His Washington coast, the would need plenty its red brick walls. Mis- But Japan’s invasion Treasurer of the Peo- piano solo of Dvorak’s couple set out with of both in the years sionary Paul Frillman of China in 1937 threw ple’s Luther League, a “On the Holy Mount” seven other new min- ahead. described trees which the area into panicked Christian youth group. was part of a larger isters and their families Their destination lined the inside bor- turmoil. Nanking, the Something of an ath- program at Tacoma’s for China. Just before in China was the dering on playgrounds country’s capital at the lete, in 1926 he was a Central Lutheran leaving on his mission, Lutheran Mission used by the students of time, quickly fell along with Shanghai, send- ing thousands fleeing FEATURED PROVIDERS, NOW ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS! Now with into the interior and We recommend that specifically to Hankow you call us fi rst! Tele Health. which became Chi- DENTAL CLINICS We’re Here For You! na’s temporary seat of government. 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Christmas day 1941, eral William Sharp had Johnny Lane moved Pearl Harbor was ordered all American to Florida later in life bombed and the bitter forces on Mindanao to and died there in 2012. winds of war once surrender. Although He still had the Pur- again found the Lane strongly disagreeing ple Heart of the father family. The Japanese with the order, Fort he barely knew. That invasion of the Philip- complied. Bicknell, medal is now back pines began ten hours now accompanied by in Washington state after the attack on the Captain Lane, began having been purchased Hawaiian base. On the trek back to Dan- by a collector of mili- December 22nd the salan with the civilian taria from a neighbor Japanese landed on the refugees where they of John Lane. Christian northern area of Luzon After Gerhard Lane’s death, Helen and Johnny Lane spent the rest of the war in would surrender to soldier Gerhard Almer pushing the Ameri- Japanese prison camps. This photo was published in the Seattle Times in 1946. Japanese authorities. Lane was thrust into a cans south in desperate On the evening of May world he had not imag- fighting. At that point, in Manilla Bay and Moro were highly inde- May 2nd. He hoped to 27, 1942, they halted ined. There was more Gerhard Lane offered occupied the American pendent, incredibly join General Fort who for the night at a Moro of the minister in Ger- his services to the stronghold on May 7th brave and fierce fight- had established a camp village along the shores hard’s death than army army. He was initially forcing General Jon- ers who took naturally in a heavily forested of Lake Lanao. Captain officer—helping people given a commission as athan Wainwright to to being guerrillas, said area after his army had Lane placed guards had been his cause. a first lieutenant and surrender all American Kuder. They became splintered into guer- around the camp But no one could say assigned to the head- troops throughout the the core of resistance to rilla units following perimeter. During the that he did not fulfill his quarters company of archipelago. Briga- the Japanese invaders initial fighting with evening sounds of a duty for both God and the 81st Infantry but dier General Guy Fort on Mindanao inflicting, the Japanese. It was scuffle attracted his country. was quickly promoted. had at the start of the in some cases, signifi- Lane, however, who attention and while (Sources: Seattle Daily Gerhard, in his last year taken control of cant casualties on the brought Kuder orders investigating he was Times, June 6, 1935, May 21, letter home, wrote his the 81st Division of enemy. However, there from General Fort to stabbed to death by a 1938, April 1, 1943, March mother: “We’ve all had the Philippine Army were many, said Kuder, stay put and coordi- Moro friendly to the 5, 1945, August 12, 1946 and August 20, 1949; Bellingham to work hard during (jointly American and who would readily nate Moro assistance Japanese who then Herald, May 21, 1924, May 20, these first few months Filipino) on the coun- turn outlaw. Some- in securing supplies made his escape. His 1935, April 1, 1943; Tacoma since the war struck. try’s southernmost times anti-American for guerrillas. Gerhard body was buried in the Daily Ledger, May 22, 1927; Tacoma News Tribune, May It’s a hard, bitter job, island of Mindanao or simply bad actors, had been instrumental Catholic cemetery in 14, 1927, May 22, 1929; Min- but it must be done. where he also orga- they used the chaos of in persuading Chinese Dansalan. neapolis Star, April 13, 1943; Edward Kuder and Pete Mar- Our job now is to wipe nized Moro tribesman war to their advantage, merchants to turn over Helen and Johnny tin, The Philippines Never Sur- out the Japanese—and to resist the Japanese. committing outrages hidden stocks of sup- Lane spent the rest rendered, Saturday Evening every white man, Chi- Captain Gerhard Lane such as attacking plies of all kinds just of the war in Japa- Post, Feb. 10, 17 and 24, 1945; “Experience of a Supply Of- nese and Filipino over was an integral part of Christian Filipinos as before the Japanese nese prison camps on ficer,” excerpts from report of here must help!” that effort. well as deceiving or landings. Escaping Mindanao. After the Commander Walter Bicknell, The Japanese broke Like General Fort, betraying unwitting advancing Japanese war Helen became USN, oryokumaruonline.org; Pacific Lutheran University the American lines in teacher Edward Kuder Americans. troops, American and a music teacher in Archives and Special Collec- April 1942 and invaded was an expert on the Assisted by a Moro British civilians, includ- Hawaii until her death tions; The Esaches, Stanwood the Bataan Peninsula Islamic Moro people headman, Kuder was ing Helen and Johnny in 1990. In 1949 the High School yearbook, 1925, 1926, Stanwood Area Histor- on May 4, 1942, landed of Mindanao having in hiding after the fall Lane, were hurried out body of Reverend and ical Society Archives; http:// May 5th on the island worked with them for of the Lanao provincial of Dansalan under the Captain Gerhard Lane www.usmilitariaforum.com/ fortress of Corregidor over 20 years. The capital Dansalan, on care of a Catholic priest was disinterred and forums/, accessed March 3, assisted by U.S. Naval reburied in Pacific 2020; Ancestry.com)

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