Savvy Seniors: Farming, travel and faith

Mary Hennings, 80, resides at Clarksville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
     She was born on a farm near Fredericksburg where her family raised a hodgepodge of animals: pigs, cows, chickens and geese—including one old gander who would always chase her.
     When she was five years old, her family moved to a farm near Sumner. Here they also had all kinds of animals, crops and a large garden. Hennings learned to milk cows by hand when she was eight or nine years old.
     Her siblings were all quite a bit older than she, and there weren’t many close neighbors. So she often played alone. She liked to climb trees and would play cowboys.
 
Read more in the March 22 edition of the STAR.