Savvy Seniors - Meet Rose Sherman

Rose Sherman, 82, resides at Clarksville Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
     She grew up on a farm in Floyd. The family had dairy cows, hogs, chickens, and hatching eggs—everything except horses.
     Growing up, she always had electricity, as her grandpa had installed a big generator. The family home had a huge cistern filled with rain water. After a well was drilled, when the cistern was low, it would be filled with well water. The system provided a type of indoor plumbing for a modern-style bathroom. Water was heated on the cook stove.
     When Sherman was two and a half years old and her brother was only nine months old, her mother passed away. She remembers spending a lot of time with her father.           
 
Read more in the November 29 edition of the STAR.
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