Fort Scott Presbyterian Village
JUNE 2024
Fort Scott Presbyterian Village announces Art is Ageless® winners Fort Scott Presbyterian Village is excited to announce the winners of its recent Art is Ageless® juried competition and exhibit. “We’re honored that local seniors allowed us to exhibit and judge their wonderful works,” said Taylor Bailey, senior living sales specialist. “Art is Ageless is unique because it only features the works of artists who are 65 and over. Our “Duel Knives” artists prove it’s never too late to create art, in any form.
“Nativity Skirt”
Local competition winners will join winners from 14 other PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America®) senior living communities to be judged at the masterpiece level. Winning entries at the masterpiece level are selected for publication in PMMA’s annual Art is Ageless calendar and note cards.
Art is Ageless is a copyrighted program of PMMA®. For the competition, works must have been completed in the past five years. Started in 1980, Art is Ageless is an extension of PMMA’s wellness programs, which focus on mental, physical, social, and spiritual health. The program encourages Fort Scott Presbyterian Village residents and other area seniors to express their creativity through its annual competition.
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A lifetime of working together In 1950, Billie and Gerald Cox graduated in the same high school class at Mound City, Kansas. Two years later, the two wed at Prescott and they spent the next 72 years working side by side. “I worked for a year and a half at Blue Cross and Blue Shield before we got married,” Billie said. “After that, I just worked with Gerald on the farm.” Gerald, who will turn 92 in June, spent most of his life on the same piece of ground. “I was born and raised on the same farm for 85 and a half years until I had to move into Presbyterian Village for a bad heart valve,” Gerald said. “We’ve been here a little over six years. It’s been a wonderful place to live. Everyone here is wonderful.”
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