Edith Stanley keeps crotcheting hats for cancer patients
TRACYTON — Ninety-eight-year-old Edith Stanleys hands are rarely at rest. Despite severe arthritis that pains her fingers, shes often found holding her crotchet hook, spinning yarn into long, fabric patterns that, in just a few hours time, slowly form a hat. For more than two decades, Stanley, of Tracyton, has donated thousands of "chemo hats" to the radiation department of her local hospital, now called St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale. Theyve been worn through the toughest of t...
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