Annual Report 2011 - Greater Springfield Senior Services

With scrapbooks filled with
autographed playbills and candid
photos of herself with actors like Barry
Bostwick and Colleen Dewhurst,
Elizabeth plays down her own career
achievements, which included parts in
No No Nanette, Grease, and Night
Music. Instead, she prefers to talk
about the people she has worked
with. She recalls being introduced to
Elizabeth Taylor. “It was the first time I
was left speechless. Her eyes were
mesmerizing – not blue, not purple,
but somewhere in between. She was
so beautiful and had this aura about
her. “But,” she adds with a giggle,
“she’d get mad if you called her Liz.”
Although Elizabeth never received
a standing ovation for a performance,
she brags that her Yorkshire terrier did.
“Star appeared in Sleuth with actor
Patrick Macnee and sat still on a chair
for an hour!” Elizabeth chirps. “I always
had Yorkshire terriers,” she muses,
patting Jordan, her latest prodigy. As
a teenager, she even showed her
prize-winning terriers at dog shows.
“I always liked being on the stage,”
she says happily.
Elizabeth moved back to Massachusetts twenty years ago
when her sister became ill. In 2008, Elizabeth became a GSSSI
home care client and began receiving home delivered meals
and assistance with housekeeping, grocery shopping, and
transportation to medical appointments. She currently lives in
a mobile home community and entertains a daily stream of
visitors. “I have friends of all different ages. I just act the way I
feel,” she says. “I’m young at heart and in spirit.”
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