November 2014 - Council On Aging

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COUNCIL ON AGING
November 2014
Barmore Duncan
Barmore Duncan
now and during
military service
Vietnam vet has globe-spanning career
by Bonnie Allen
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n a comfortable East Petaluma living
room enlivened with family mementos
and photos of their children, Bettie and
Barmore Duncan share a life story lived
around the world. Against one wall stands
the handsome grandfather clock that Barmore
built himself while in Germany.
In a comfortable East Petaluma living
room enlivened with family mementos and
photos of their children, Bettie and Barmore
Duncan share a life story lived around the
world. Against one wall stands the handsome
grandfather clock that Barmore built himself
while in Germany.
His father hoped he would grow up to
take over the small rented farm where the
Duncans eked out a livelihood, but Barmore
Duncan decided early on that he wanted
more than the backbreaking life and long
hours of a cotton farmer. And the way to that
escape was through education.
Reluctantly, his father supported his
ambitions: “I know you’ve got your life.” At a
time when poor people had little trust in the
banking system, he began putting extra cash
in a tobacco can to save for Barmore’s college
tuition.
Through the 8th grade, Barmore attended
the local school in his small township not far
from historic Ninety Six, South Carolina. One
teacher taught all the grades at the one-room,
segregated schoolhouse. In high school, he
was bused the 18 miles to Greenwood, where
he found himself woefully unprepared for the
academics.
It was an exhausting period in Barmore’s
life. Commuting to school, studying extra
hard to catch up, and doing a full
complement of farm chores left little time for
leisure. He had to miss days of school to help
with the harvest. He also worked part time
driving the school bus and laying bricks. But
there was still room for fun—and romance.
He first noticed Bettie Thomas when he
saw her “play the red-headed stepchild” at a
school play, Barmore recalls. When the
journalism club that Bettie was a part of
took a field trip to Charleston, Barmore
made sure to secure the driver’s job.
“There were a lot of advantages to
driving with a big mirror,” he chuckles,
“and I could keep an eye on her.” At a rest
stop, he asked her to have lunch with him
on the grass.
“I said no,” says Bettie. “But I did it
anyway.” A boat ride on the Cooper River
may have sealed their fate. They married
when he was a junior in college and
started a family that grew to four children.
At South Carolina State College,
Barmore majored in industrial engineering.
But he knew job opportunities for African
American college graduates in the early fifties
were limited to teaching and nursing, both
miserably paid. For many, the military was
the way out. So Barmore signed up for ROTC,
and received a commission as 2nd lieutenant
on graduation in 1959.
After basic officer’s training, he was
assigned to the army ordnance corps. Rising
through the ranks, he served in Port Clinton,
Ohio, then on to West Germany as a
maintenance platoon leader and company
commander. Bettie was able to join him, and
one of their sons was born there, with
German godparents.
Later, he taught the army quartermaster’s
basic and career courses in Virginia, among
other assignments. Along the way, he
acquired a master’s degree in psychology and
counseling at Ball State University in Muncie,
Indiana.
“It made him a better leader,” Bettie says.
“It was probably one of the most beneficial
things he’s ever done.”
After attending language school to study
Vietnamese, Barmore was sent to Vietnam in
1967 as an ARVN logistics adviser. During his
13 months there he suffered injuries, along
with the post-traumatic stress disorder that
plagued so many Vietnam vets. During his
career, he was awarded a Purple Heart,
Bronze Star, Bronze Star with Valor,
Meritorious Service
Award, Vietnam
Combat Ordnance
Badge and Army
Accommodation Medal.
After Vietnam, Duncan rounded out his
career with another stint in Germany and at
the Presidio of San Francisco. Bettie and the
kids were with him in each assignment, but
when he was transferred to Fort Ord in
Monterey, she decided she didn’t want to
move there. As he was nearing retirement
from the military, the couple looked for a
permanent home. In 1976 they found what
they were looking for in Petaluma, where two
of the children completed high school.
Barmore commuted to Fort Ord until his
retirement.
Retirement from the military, that is.
Barmore then embarked on another 25year career as a logistics engineer for Bechtel
that took him around the world, including to
Ukraine, Greece, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
He helped design the Jubail Industrial City in
Saudi Arabia, one of the largest civil
engineering project in the world today. Bettie
joined him in these assignments, which
proved to be a rich cultural experience. And
then there were the perks; travel to anywhere
in the world they cared to visit. Bettie went to
Germany, Hong Kong, China and Japan,
Korea, Thailand, Philippines, and Singapore.
The couple enjoyed a camera safari in Kenya
where Bettie “bagged” a cheetah.
Now 78, Barmore struggles for words
because of aphasia caused by a stroke. But the
words that come eventually reveal his still
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to our 17 programs and services during the month of September, 2014.
Annual Appeal
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November 2014 ◆ page 3
Small Mercies
Love comes in many guises
by Lenore Pimental
M
rs. Szostek appeared to be in her
early hundreds when I was still in
kindergarten. She was small,
white-haired, hunched over like a bird
looking for seed. Mr. and Mrs. Szostek lived
in the apartment right next door to ours in
one of those solid brownstone buildings
that are typical of Brooklyn, New York, and
they were wartime refugees. I would
sometimes see Mr. Szostek coming home
from his job as a civilian welder in the naval
shipyard. He was a big, booming, cheerful
guy swinging a metal lunchbox as he
greeted all the neighbors, even the kids, and
he thought nothing of tossing me up into
the air if I was on our stoop. Then he would
enter our building and run up the stairs
three at a time to his front door where Mrs.
Szostek stood waiting. They would hug and
then go inside chatting happily in Polish, he
looking so young, she looking so ancient. I
had never seen anything like it.
The Szosteks had no children. They came
to America in 1942, the year I was born, and
whereas Mr. Szostek quickly learned
English and sailed out into the world with
amazing confidence, Mrs. Szostek shrank.
She had tried going to English lessons, but
the ordeal was too frightening for her.
Sirens made her tremble; someone knock
ing on her front door sent her into a locked
bathroom. When Mr. Szostek brought home
a pair of canaries for his wife, they became
a huge part of her life.
I remember seeing Mrs. Szostek leaning
out the window on a pillow as she watched
the goings-on in our neighborhood. That
was as far as she could venture without the
strong arm and encouragement of her
husband. We kids didn’t think too much of
it. We just relegated Mrs. Szostek to the
domain of the other strange grownups on
our block, people like Billy Miles who liked
to ride the subway all day with a news
paper he couldn’t read, or Mr. Devaney
who spied on us in the nearby park. We
would just wave and go on playing.
As I got bigger, Mrs. Szostek chose me
as her special assistant. I tried to avoid her
as much as possible, but it did no good. She
could see me coming home from school and
even if I crept up the stairs, she would
suddenly open her door and grab me before
I could escape. My three older sisters she
allowed to pass unmolested. I was the one
she wanted, but much as I liked my neigh
bor I was equally afraid of her neediness.
She reminded me of my lifesaving classes at
the public pool where we were warned
about being pulled under by someone in a
panic. I was a kid; I didn’t know how to be
a grownup for anyone else.
“You go me store?” she’d ask, taking
hold of my sleeve. There was nothing I
could do. You don’t turn your back on
hundred-year-olds.
“Okay,” I’d say. “Just let me put my stuff
away and get out of my uniform. I’ll be
right over.”
My sisters thought it was a riot.
page 4 ◆ November 2014 Into Mrs. Szostek’s
apartment I’d go with my
pad and pencil to write a
list. I’d greet the canaries and
push through the strange
beaded curtains that led to the
kitchen. The place smelled of
cabbage rolls, fried cakes, pierogi and
kielbasa. Soup was always simmering, and
bread always rising. Everything gleamed,
right down to the copper pipes beneath the
sink, and plates and cups were all put away.
In my family’s apartment, dishes went from
the drain board to the table, never once
entering the cupboard, and chaos reigned
supreme. We cleaned house on Saturday,
period.
“I’m ready, Mrs. Szostek. What do you
need?”
If I was lucky, Mrs. Szostek would have
saved labels for me. I’d list the Russian rye
she liked, the canned tomatoes, the special
jams and pickles. Where I had difficulty
was with the bulk items she wanted from
Schreiber’s delicatessen. I simply could not
be certain of Mrs. Szostek’s English.
My solution was to try and race through
the puzzling items when I placed my order
in the store.
“Half a pound of ham and one pound of
vomit cheese,” I would say to Mr. Schreiber
or his wife.
The other customers laughed.
“Is for Mrs. Szostek, yes?” the owner
would say. I nodded, mortified. He would
take out a great slab of white cheese and
neatly cut off just the right amount.
“Is voma cheese,” Mr. Schreiber would
explain, as if that made it all clear.
Years later I would learn that I was
ordering “farmer’s cheese,” a kind of fresh,
unpasteurized cheese that was too exotic
for my own family. We ate Velveeta.
Sometimes I would write letters for Mr.
and Mrs. Szostek, straightening out some
bureaucratic mess with the IRS or the gas
company that had them in mortal fear of
deportation. By special arrangement I read
the gas and electric meters so that no
stranger needed to be admitted to the
apartment, and I called in my readings
every month. Though I was only ten years
old, I had inherited my mother’s fearless
ness and a healthy cynicism toward
authority. The Szosteks were amazed at my
abilities, and sent me home with special
candies and pastries that my sisters grabbed.
I was not allowed to take money.
“They’re our neighbors, God bless them.
I won’t be having you taking from them in
their time of need,” my Irish mother would
say. And it was always someone’s time of
need.
A few years later, Mr. Szostek died of
cancer. I watched in horror as he shrank to
his wife’s small stature, and then he was
gone. It was as though a great wind had
blown through our building and taken every
thing with it. Even the birds were silent.
We all thought Mrs. Szostek would die,
too, but she didn’t. Instead she took all her
suffering and put it with whatever other
atrocities she had
known in her life,
bending even further
toward the ground
and growing ever more
reclusive. I sometimes sat
with her for an hour or more,
just holding her hand. There were no
words.
I took to paying Mrs. Szostek’s bills for
her, in cash that she made me carry in a tiny
purse pinned inside my pocket. I dropped
off her shopping lists at the store on my way
to school, and picked them up when I came
home. Mrs. Szostek was too frightened of
the delivery boy to let him bring her
groceries. When one of her best singing
canaries died, my father helped me pick out
another one, watching with me for a whole
afternoon as I listened to each song and
examined each bird for health and vitality.
When I brought the canary to Mrs.
Szostek, she cried. It would be many years
before I understood how she had come to
expect cruelty from the world, and how
kindness completely disarmed her. It felt
strange to comfort Mrs. Szostek as she
clung to me, like patting someone with a
bird’s hollow and fragile bones. Still in
grade school, I was already much taller.
Life went on. My sisters and I grew up
and left for college, nursing school,
marriage. My parents divorced. Grand
children were carried home for visits, in my
case across the country. And Mrs. Szostek
moved in with my mother.
“The poor thing was crying one night,”
my mother explained, “so I asked her over
for a cup of tea.”
That was all it took. Small mercies can
transform the world.
Love comes in many guises. People look
back over their lives and say that such and
such a time was the happiest, another time
the hardest. All I can say is that when I
visited my mother and Mrs. Szostek in our
old apartment, there was an atmosphere of
peace and contentment that had never been
there in my childhood. It felt like a real home.
My mother continued to work for many
years, helping different clothing designers
come up with workable models for factory
manufacture. When she came home it was
to heavenly food, singing birds, a grateful
friend who loved her. To Mrs. Szostek, my
mother brought the outside world. I can
hear them now discussing two factory
workers who both loved the same man and
screamed at each other in Spanish as
though no one could hear them. New York
City’s garment industry was better than
any soap opera, and Mrs. Szostek hung on
every word, delighting in the crises, daily
tantrums, and delicious drama. Her English
improved, but she began to speak with an
Irish brogue. And my mother, who could be
the most caring of conflicted women, was
finally being cared for. It was a joy to see.
My mother and Mrs. Szostek became an
invincible pair for many years, and in
Brooklyn, New York, that was a great thing
for two senior ladies to be.
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• Tue, Nov 18, 2:30 pm: The Memory Loss
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765-8488 for more information.
• Thu, Nov 13, 10 am: Mystery Tour.
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Departs Petaluma Senior Center, 211 Novak
Drive. $48 members; $60 non-members.
• Tue, Nov 25, Noon: Thanksgiving
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167 N High St, Sebastopol, 829-2440
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• Mon, Nov 10, 3 pm: Honoring Veterans
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our Veterans. Live music, refreshments and
panel discussion on “War from a Veteran’s
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• Tuesdays, 1:30 pm: Ongoing
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• Wednesdays, 4 pm: Chair Pilates:
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• Tue, Nov 4, 9 am–1:30 pm: AARP Smart
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• Sat, Nov 8 & Dec 6, 9 am–Noon: Flu Shot
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• Thu, Nov 13, 1:30–3 pm and 5:30–7 pm
(two sessions): Advanced Care Planning
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• Tue, Nov 18, 9 am–Noon: Memory
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• 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 9:30–11:30 am: Legal
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• Wed, Nov 5, 9:30 am–3 pm: Marin History
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for information, assistance and case management services.
Call 525-0143, ext. 101. Sebastopol seniors only: call the
Russian River Senior Center at 869-0618.
Senior Financial Services:
Our bonded and insured counselors assist seniors who are
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develop skills and social support, leading to a more constructive and satisfying life. After an assessment visit by
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12 weekly support sessions to develop a care plan solution
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notes. Sponsored by the Department of Mental Health
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Lawyer Referral Service:
If you are 60 or older and need an attorney, you will be
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$40. If you retain the attorney for further services, fees will
be at the attorney’s usual rate. The service is certified by
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Panel discussion on “Driving Safely As We
Age.” Rabon Saip, Colleen Campbell, Dean
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County Agency on Aging. 1717 Yulupa Ave.,
Santa Rosa, 1–3:15 pm. People w/
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538-5178 or 887-7451.
◆ Nov 8 & 16: New Horizons Band
Concerts. The New Horizons Band of
Sonoma County is starting off their fall
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Berger Community Center, Oakmont,
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Please join us and listen to a wide variety of
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• Nov 12 (second Wednesday), 6–7:30 pm:
Petaluma Health Care District, 1425 N.
McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.
Council on Aging Meals on Wheels Program personally
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Market in Sonoma County, as well as at Fairfax Market
and Scotty’s Market in Marin. Stage is the Council on
Aging’s affordable gourmet option that offers restaurantquality, fine dining entrees prepared fresh and ready to be
warmed in the microwave or oven. For more information
call Kelly Robertson at 525-0143, ext. 118. Or visit our
website at www.councilonaging.com/stage for a sample
menu and links to store locations.
Legal consultation and representation in matters of
housing, consumer fraud, Social Security and SSI, MediCal and Medicare, and elder abuse are provided. Also
available are simple trusts, wills and durable powers of
attorney for health care and finance. Please call 525-0143, ext.
140, for an appointment.
Senior Care Coordination:
Our experienced staff provides advocacy-based long-term
care management for seniors who are having difficulty
navigating the local senior service delivery system. Our
Senior Care Coordinator creates an individualized and
thoughtful care plan to reflect and preserve the senior’s
values and lifestyle choices, while maximizing opportunities for positive change and maintaining quality of life.
We work in collaboration with home health care agencies
and provide integrated services through other Council
on Aging services. Our fees are very competitive with
private care managers in our community. Call 525-0143.
page 8 ◆ November 2014 November 4, 2–4 pm
December 9, 2–4 pm
Call 525-0143 to schedule a 30-minute
consultation with an attorney at the new
Senior Legal Clinic at Council on Aging—
Second Tuesday of each month, 2–4 pm.
Legal advice for consumer fraud protection,
landlord-tenant issues, wills, durable powers
of attorney, health care directives and
additional legal resources and referrals.
Donations suggested but not required.
Call to schedule your
complimentary lunch & tour.
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Senior Social Club:
Senior Legal Services:
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Senior Meals:
This service has helped hundreds of people to reconnect
with others through our Social Club Activities program,
offering the opportunity to gather for meals, exercise,
entertainment, companionship, and arts and crafts. The
programs are held in Healdsburg, Sonoma, Sebastopol and
Santa Rosa. Call Laurel Anderson at 525-0143, ext. 103.
• Nov 18 (third Tuesday), 6–7:30 pm:
ShareSpace, 533 5th St, Santa Rosa.
Drop-ins welcome; for info: 525-0143.
◆ Nov 29: Vintage Craft Fair. Vintage
Park Sr. Apts, 147 Colgan Ave., Santa Rosa,
swings open its gates to the public, 9 am–3
pm. Creative residents have conjured up
magic in their work by turning yarn into
hats, vests, scarves, crochet baskets; Italian
glass into jewelry; paper into collage.
Homemade wreaths, soaps, outrageous
baked goods, small paintings, some vintage
linen and more. Event is free!! Look for
balloons.
“I am not young enough to know
everything.”
—Oscar Wilde
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