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Free “Living with Alzheimer’s” conference set Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:57 pm
REGIONAL The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, or AFA, will host a free virtual Alzheimer’s educational conference for Minnesotans on Tuesday, March 16, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The conference is part of the organization’s 2021 national Educating America Tour. The conference, which is free and open to everyone, will allow participants to learn from, and ask questions of, health, caregiving and legal experts. To register, go to www.alzfdn.org/tour.
Health Calendar published Feb. 17, 2021
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Senior LinkAge Line
Older adults can contact the Senior LinkAge Line at 1-800-333-2433 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays to receive help with questions involving Medicare and health insurance, help finding services to stay in one s home or help to afford medication. Be sure to have a complete list of prescription drugs and dosages.
The Senior LinkAge Line is a free service of the Minnesota Board on Aging. The Senior LinkAge Line is the State Health Insurance Assistance Program and Senior Medicare Patrol for Minnesota. Specialists provide one-to-one assistance with all Medicare and health insurance issues. Live chat with a specialist also can be accessed online at www.MinnesotaHelp.info.
Obituary: Odette B. Stebbins
GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Odette B. Stebbins, 84, passed away peacefully on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021 at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, .
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Odette B. Stebbins
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – Odette B. Stebbins, 84, passed away peacefully on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021 at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, Md.
She is the loving mother of James (Carolyn) Stebbins, John Stebbins, Catherine (Mark) Holder, and the late Patrick Stebbins; she is also the cherished grandmother of Jordan Holder, Kelsey Holder, and Lauren Holder. Survivors also include many loving nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.
Odette was born in Waterville in 1936, and raised throughout the state. She graduated from the University of Maine in Portland with a degree in education, and relocated to suburban Maryland to raise her family and begin her teaching career. She was a champion of children and their education, and retired after 30 years of teaching elementary school in the Maryland p
See inside this incredibly realistic miniature house with working electricity TODAY 2/10/2021
Some people s pandemic pastimes include puzzles, binge-watching Netflix or baking bread.
For others, it s building unbelievably intricate miniature houses, like this one in Kansas City, Missouri, which has functioning electricity, a garage door that opens and closes, fireplaces with glowing logs, multiple outdoor spaces, a boiler room and so, so much more. The miniature world has definitely exploded during COVID because people are at home and picking up hobbies, Annie Kampfe told TMRW.
But her interest in miniatures actually began in 2017, when she stumbled across a tiny needlepoint canvas in a local store.
Michael Corbett Stovall Jr.
WILMINGTON Michael Corbett Stovall Jr., 69, passed away Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, surrounded by family at Brookdale Memory Care center in Wilmington.
Michael was the son of Mary Bellamy Koonce and Michael Corbett Stovall, both of Wilmington; grandson of Nora Meade Corbett Stovall and Major Harry Wylie Stovall and Lillian Maxwell Bellamy and The Honorable Emmett Hargrove Bellamy, and the husband of Kathleen Lester Stovall, formerly of Reidsville. He had two sons, Michael Corbett Stovall III of Brooklyn, New York, and Christopher Talley Stovall of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Born Aug. 7, 1951, in Houston, Michael was a go-getter as a child. He enjoyed playing catcher for his Little League team, coached by his father. In addition to backing up pitchers, he won “Most Typical Cowboy” and was able to meet Roy Rogers as a result. His love for dogs began as a child, with his first dog, Joe, and continuing to his stepfather’s musically named Golden Retriever “hunting