Wichita Presbyterian Manor
JUNE 2023
Family is the canvas of resident’s life When Alex Washburn talks about her family, she talks about her late husband, the Reverend Doctor Steven Washburn who built a career as a minister in the Midwest, as well as her now 40-year-old son and her 10-year-old grandson.
Da'Yvanna 'Davy' Horton, executive chef
But her story also opens a window into a long, interesting, and artistic history. That might take you to a conversation about a long-ago ancestor and his brother-in-law who worked as merchant ship captains and are immortalized in several “primitive” early 19th century paintings. Or it could open discussion about her father, a Captain who headed the International Ice Patrol tasked with recording iceberg flows in an effort to prevent tragedies like the “Titanic”. There’s also the father-in-law who served as dentist for the wife of Chicago’s mayor, and the aunt who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and was deployed during the Battle of Britain in World War II. Alex Washburn holds a picture of And the remarkable tale of her “triple her father and sits beneath a paintgreat grandmother” Catherine E. Read ing by Aldis Browne II. Williams, who Alex described as a “selfmade” woman, who worked as a satirist, an historian and as the first True-Crime author in the United States. “’The Tale of Fall River’ was written in 1833 by a person born in 1790,” Alex said. That wasn’t my husband’s favorite plot line, because it was about a minister who had murdered an inconvenient girlfriend.” The story Alex tells of her family lives in the many pieces of art she has hanging on her walls inside Wichita Presbyterian Manor.
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New Executive Chef puts heart and soul into every meal Da'Yvanna 'Davy' Horton, the newly promoted Executive Chef at PMMA, is ready and excited to manage the daily menu at The Landing - and to learn more about residents’ culinary palates. “I go out there and see if the food quality is good for the residents,” Davy said. That’s the big thing I do hands-on in leadership. Others of course are scheduling, planning the menu, teaching the crew proper placement. But I really enjoy going out and touching base with residents.” To her, food service is a family affair. “I’m very personable,” she said. “I make it a family deal, we’re friends and we laugh and joke. The residents give me feedback - sometimes bad. But I try to be playful with them.
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