Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Photo by LIB STEWART
Ashley Lauren Limbaugh
Russell Adam Stephens
Ashley Limbaugh, Russell
Stephens are engaged
. Mrs. Susan Limbaugh of Kings Mountain announces the
, engagement of her daughter, Ashley Lauren Limbaugh, to Rus-
{ Gastonia.
sell Adam Stephens, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Stephens of
Ashley is the granddaughter of the late Mary Sue Long and
the late James and Margaret Limbaugh. She is a graduate of
Kings Mountain High School, Gaston College, and Gardner-
: Webb University with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. Ash-
ley is employed by Dole Fresh Vegetables in Bessemer City as
an accountant. She enjoys riding motorcycles and being on the
water.
Adam is the grandson of Gus and Linda Bowlin of Ranlo
and Dennis and Marlene Stephens of Belpre, Ohio. He is a
graduate of Ashbrook High School and is employed by
Fontaine Truck Modification as a technician in Mount Holly.
He enjoys the outdoors and motorcycles.
The wedding will be held July 3, 2010 at East Baptist
Church in Gastonia. The reception will follow at The City Club
: of Gastonia. This wedding date was chosen in memory of the
« anniversary of the marriage of Ashley’s mother, Susan Lim-
baugh and father, the late Thomas William Limbaugh.
‘Miss Kitty to
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PLANNING TOUR OF HOMES - Miriam Goff, Margaret Pearson and Tina
Melvin, left to right, share ideas about a May 1 Historical Tour of Homes to
be sponsored by Friends of Mauney Memorial Library. The Goff, Pearson
and Melvin homes will be open for the tour from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Goff and
Pearson are co-chairs of the Library fundraiser.
‘Play tells
story of
Holocaust
The Touring Theatre of
North Carolina will perform
© “Let Your Children Tell” at
B.N. Barnes Auditorium
March 5 at 7 p.m. In connec-
tion with the showing, local
teachers are receiving study
guides for their classrooms
from Mauney Memorial Li-
brary, sponsor of the event.
- Margot Plonk, Mauney
Adult Programs coordinator,
said the theatre documentary
is the story of what we now
refer to as the Holocaust, told
in the words of four young
people who experienced it.
Taken from diaries, inter-
views and testimonials, these
five people, one each from
Germany, Czechoslovakia,
Austria, The Netherlands and
Hungary, respond to the de-
crees and deeds of Hitler and
his Nazis by providing inti-
mate glimpses of their lives in
hiding, in exile, in ghettos and
in labor and concentration -
camps. Portrayed by five ac-
tors, one of whom is a narra-
tor who assumes several
roles, they record a dark hour
of history that can be Kept
alive through the telling and
remind the world what can
happen when racism and
prejudice go unchecked, said
Plonk. :
There will be an exhibit
open to the public and hosted
by Mauney Library at the
KM Depot in February and at
the library in March. It is a se-
ries of panels about the
Kinder transport.
Moore.
Jean Moore hugs grandchildren Sarah Drennan and Wilson and McRae
Retirement is just a chance to
change jobs for Jean Moore
by ELIZABETH STEWART
Staff-Writer
Retirement is fun for Jean Moore, who
saw her last patient at Cleveland Medical
Associates January 28 after a nursing career
that spanned 42 years.
By all accounts smiling, hugging and lis-
tening to patients were trademarks of her
career and more than 150 friends turned out
to honor her at a surprise retirement party
atJ Oliver’s.
“I was very humbled,” said Moore.
It was almost like a “roasting” for Moore
as her former patients added to the fun by
saying that Jean promised them she
“wouldn’t be sticking us anymore.” But
they added, “This nurse gave good shots,
we will miss her.”
Jean’s husband, city councilman Rick
Moore, kept the surprise party a secret. He
insisted his wife of 42 years accompany
him to city hall for a meeting but instead he
parked downtown in front of J Oliver’s on
a recent Sunday and ushered his wife in-
side.
Rick teased Jean that he was welcoming
her as the newest employee of the family
owned-business, Timms’ Furniture; but Jean
has other plans. She and daughter, Karla
Drennan, assisted by the Moores’ three
grandchildren, have started a new business,
Lulu Designs, already turning out pretty, or-
namental gift cards trimmed with colorful
ribbon and paper along with monogrammed
invitations and packaging them to offer to
the public.
The name “Lulu” came from a nickname
given to nine-year-old granddaughter Sarah
Drennan by the Moores’ grandsons, McRae
Moore, 9, and Wilson Moore, 7. The work
room at the Moore home is a busy place.
“Nona,” the name given to Jean by her
grandchildren, spent the first day of retire-
ment having lunch with the grandchildren
at West School. After school they rushed
downstairs in the Moore home to work on
the big card project.
The versatile Mrs. Moore also designs
attractive and colorful hair bows on combs
attached at the back of pretty caps or hats—
a project she started in 1998 to give to her
JEAN MOORE
patients with hair loss. Jean was diagnosed
in 1994 with Alopecia Universalis, total
body hair loss. She looked into hairpieces
and found that her own designs helped
other women self-conscious about hair loss.
“It was actually a ministry that God led me
to help others,” she said.
The nursing profession has changed
“immensely” since Jean graduated in the
second class of nurses at Gardner-Webb
College School of Nursing in 1968. But she
always wanted to be a nurse beginning as a
volunteer candy striper at Kings Mountain
Hospital.
At age 20 her first 16h was at a hospital
in Anchorage, Alaska where Rick was sta-
tioned with the Army. They came home in
1970 and Jean worked at Kings Mountain
Hospital and then joined Hendricks-
Durham-Lee Clinic and was Dr. Joe Lee’s
nurse from 1973-95.
Until 1975 family doctors delivered ba-
bies. The clinic was always full of patients
who came without appointments, no insur-
ance, and often waited but were always
treated for a variety of illnesses.
See MOORE on Page 6B
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