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Show t x Mainly ii For Seniors Woman overcomes her problems By JOHN T. WATTS Copley Newt Service Dear John: I read about Florence L., that the is lonely, lone-ly, being a widow 17 years. I am 72 and have been a widow two timet. Lost my first husband in 1953 of cancer. can-cer. He wat gone in two weeks. My children were by this husband. All are married and have their own children. My second husband died In 1974 of open heart turgery gone in tlx weekt. I had ttayed at one or the other children't bouses until I got a three-room apartment apart-ment in Ocean Grove, N J. The past two years I've been a volunteer at the At-bury At-bury Park No. 1 nutrition center for seniors, where I serve at a helper with food. I, too, wat lonely and a quiet person, never bothered to make friends, only pen palt, at I am totally deaf have been since I wat 11 years old. I can read lips, at I taught myself looking in a mirror. Ia a short time I came alive. Everyone wat to friendly. We at the center have parties par-ties every holiday and get gifts. I tell everyone they should be a volunteer at a center near where tbey live. A but picks it ip and brings us home. I feel 20 years younger since I have been volunteer volun-teer at the center. Yon couldn't ntk for a nicer woman than Mrs. Shirley Winters, bo hat charge. Her bean: in all for ut older people tb;r e. Irene W. Dear Irene: Florence hopefully should note. Also a lot of others who might be able to pull themselves up by their ow n bootstraps. I hadn't heard of this method of 1 earning lip reading, read-ing, but it certainly sounds plausible. A s to loneliness, as we have of ten said, the best antidote Is to get active in doing something for others. Dear Joitin: After reading of the Pen Pals in your Mainly for Seniors, I decided to join them If possible. I am a retired Red Cross social woilter affiliated with the military, which enabled me to travel extensively. 1 now feel confined in tbe area in trhich I live, to thought it would be nice to branch oat through your Pea Pal list Today venturing out by a lone female is like walking a tightrope, to correspondence should be n safer coarse to follow. E closing stamped, self -addret sed envelope for tame. Aana C. Dear An na: Your Pen Pal list should be there before now. Sadly some readers are still asking for various things without sending the SASE. And we cannot explain ex-plain why they do not bear from us. And, Anna, you would be a catch with your background for some volunteer agency. Dear John: Can you please tell me how I can correspond corre-spond with other pen pals from foreign countries? I would alto like to have a Pen Pal list of names. I'm a widow for 22 years and you don't know bow lonely it gets when you don't have anybody any-body to talk to or write to. M.H. Dear M.H.: Yes I do, having hav-ing read letters of lonely people for nearly 10 years. As to foreign Pen Pals, this column is published in a number of Canadian news-paers news-paers and maybe readers there who are interested in correspondence will write in. We ll be glad to put their names on the next list Dear John: Several months ago as Item appeared ia the Town and Village newspaper which mentioned a recipe for tbe relief of arthritit. I misplaced mis-placed my copy and would greatly appreciate it if yoa would tend me this information. informa-tion. - Leo W. Dear Leo: Glad to; send a self-addressed, stamped envelope. en-velope. Letters may be tent to Mainly for Seniors, Copley News Service, hi cart of this newspaper. Volume of mail prohibits individual replies. |