Age Strong Live Long - Cardinal Ritter Senior Services

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CARDiNAL RiTTeR
SeNioR SeRViCeS
BoARD oF DiReCToRS
oFFiCeRS
President,
Rosemary Fairhead
Vice President,
Victoria Horst
Treasurer,
Daniel G. Wienstroer
Secretary,
William Hopfinger
Assistant Secretary,
Sr. Suzanne Wesley, CSJ
MeMBeRS
Julia e. Andert
David G. Behlman
Daniel D. Callahan
Jack Challis
Robert L. Devereux
Thomas Doherty
Joseph F. Dwyer, Jr.
edward J. Griesedieck
Susan e. Kalist
Joseph J. Kelley, Jr.
James Laurentius
Brian J. o’Malley
David Schlafly
Sr. Pauline Schwandt, oSF
Mark Siedband
John J. Smith, Sr.
Barbara Tricomi
ohala J. Ward
Susan M. Wilson
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Fall 2010
An Evening with Motown…and CRSS
Friday, November 5th marks the 8th annual CRSS fundraiser. This year’s event, An
Evening with Motown, begins at 6pm at the Crowne Plaza in Clayton. Event co-chairs,
Jim Laurentius and Dan Wienstroer, promise a good time for all attendees! The evening
includes silent and oral auction items, appetizers, open bar, sit down dinner and music
and dancing with the Fabulous Motown Revue. The 2010 ambassadors, Terry and
Marianne Barber, Fr. Jim Cormack, Tom and Elsie Gorski and Joe and Patricia Kelley,
along with the CRSS Board of Directors have chosen the William H. Erker Family to
receive the Heart and Cross Award. The award is given each year to an individual,
group, program or family who serve and support senior adults.
Sponsorships for the night are available with Missouri
state NAP tax credits. Tables of ten can be purchased for
$1000 and individual tickets are available for $125. This
year’s raffle is a Trip for Two to Hawaii or $2500 cash and
are available for $20 each or 6/$100. For more information
about the event, to make reservations or to have raffle
tickets mailed to you, please contact the development
office at 314-961-8000 ext. 323 or aleipholtz@ccstl.org.
Age Strong Live Long
CRSS celebrated Senior Adult Week in May. Despite a week of wacky weather,
the week long celebration of our residents was a success and included opening
ceremonies with Mr. Whitey Herzog, entertainment with Fredbird and Bridget
Kossur, special dinners with guests at all programs and facilities and special
events throughout the week. CRSS could not serve senior adults without our
employees so this week concludes with Employee Appreciation Day!
in This issue:
From the Ceo 2
Age Strong Photos 2
Why do you give? 3
CRSS Wish List 3
‘Tis the Season 3
Friends of CRSS 4
An Evening With
MOTOWN
see more photos on page 2
RSVP Program 6
Volunteers 7

Dear Friends of Cardinal Ritter
Senior Services:
Recently I received a call from a
senior adult who is lonely, mentally
ill, hungry, and living in a tiny unairconditioned
hotel room. She was
calling me I think because she was
completely at her wits end. No matter
how much she tries, she cannot
pull out the answers she needs to sustain herself, much
less to live a life with any level of quality. I think she
needed to hear a caring voice.
At Cardinal Ritter Senior Services we have so many
senior adults entrusted to us who really want to feel a
part of the community, who want to be happy and safe,
but they just do not have the tools they need to handle
life on their own. Through the varied services at CRSS,
we provide help to those individuals, day in and day
out. Sometimes they get better and then they slip into
From the CEO...
Age Strong Live Long
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darkness again. A few of these residents/clients have
some resources, but most of them do not have any
resources. This is where you can help us at CRSS help
others. The few resources these folks counted on have
dried up with the income recession, the closing of so
many sites where they get food or help with medication
or a place to sleep.
As you count your blessings, I ask you to remember
senior adults who are in need and who are so grateful
for any help that they receive, and if you want to be a
part of the mission of Jesus, join with us at Cardinal
Ritter Senior Services.
Bless you and your families!
Sister Suzanne Wesley, CSJ
Chief Executive Officer
Cardinal Ritter Senior Services.
Proud member of the United Way

News from the Development Office
Why do you give?
Cardinal Ritter Senior Services is
blessed to have many generous and
faithful supporters! We asked a few
Why Do you give to CRSS?
Bill Hopfinger, CRSS Board Member
Although I had
been somewhat
aware of the mission
and work of
CRSS for quite
some time, it was in
the Summer of 2000
that I came face to
face with the wonderful
services offered by CRSS, specifically,
Mary Queen and Mother Center.
My dad had a rather severe stroke in
June of that year and although being a
health professional myself, it was still a
rather scary and daunting experience
helping my Mom choose a place in
which this man, a decorated veteran of
WW II and larger than life figure to me,
would spend the remaining days of his
life on this earth.
At MQMC we found a wonderful
and caring staff who not only had posted
the mission statement for quality
care of older adults with emphasis on
dignity, but lived that mission every day.
The facility became the center of my
Mom’s social life and the employees
embraced her in the same Christian way
they did my father until her untimely
death in late 2001.
Interested in supporting
Cardinal Ritter
Senior Services? We
always welcome monetary
donations which
help us serve senior
adults without
resources. We also
appreciate in kind gifts.
A few items on our Wish
List include:
CRSS Wish List
• DVD/VCR
• Patio Furniture
• Board Games
• Outdoor games
• Patio cushions
• Porch Swing
• New bed pillows
• Plastic mattress covers
• New Blankets (twin
size)
• Comforters (twin size)
with bed skirts
Although my family was fortunate
enough to be able to afford Dad’s care, I
soon realized this wasn’t the case for
numerous residents. Regardless, the caring
and compassionate way in which all
the residents were treated was surely
commendable. Being in the health care
profession myself for over 30 years, I am
acutely aware that providing high quality
care (particularly 24/7) requires maintaining
a high quality staff, and this is
not an inexpensive proposition.
Furthermore, often times government
programs only cover a fraction of the
cost of providing care. Therefore, to
maintain the mission and work of CRSS
it is imperative that we develop and
maintain a strong list of donors to help
provide care for some of our most vulnerable
brothers and sisters. In short,
this is why I am proud and happy to support
the work of CRSS.
DeCA Realty
Businesses
that give back
to their community
can make a difference! At Deca
Realty, we believe that Cardinal Ritter
Senior Services (CRSS) is one of the
best local charities that we can
support. The services of CRSS are
invaluable to the increasing number of
elderly citizens in our area. And, seeing
the smiling faces of the many seniors
who benefit from CRSS shows us our
money is being well-spent. It is a winwin
for both Deca Realty and the senior
citizens of our community!
• Sheet sets (twin size)
• Personal Care products
such as shampoo,
soap, disposable
razors,
• deodorant, lotion,
shaving cream, nail
clippers, Depends(the
pull up type), combs,
brushes, toothpaste,
toothbrushes, and
Efferdent
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Volunteer imelda Benden
Imelda has
lived at Holy Infant
Apartments for a
year and a half and
volunteers at the
Mary Queen and
Mother Center gift
shop and also does
volunteer clerical work for the
admissions staff.
“I started volunteering about 8 or 9
years ago when I was living in Montana.
Originally it was about having something
to do and a way to be helpful. But
now, volunteering at Mary Queen, I
enjoy the interaction with the residents,
visitors and staff. It really makes me
feel good, and it keeps me healthy in
mind and body too.”
Daughters of Charity Foundation
The Daughters of Charity
Foundation of St. Louis focuses some of
its grant funding to assist seniors to
remain independent in their homes. We
have been pleased to assist Cardinal
Ritter Senior Services with transportation
services to allow the seniors they
serve to access door to door transportation
to needed areas for such important
services which will enhance their quality
of life. Such services will hopefully
allow many seniors, who do not have
the means or opportunity to drive, to
remain independent as long as possible.
‘Tis the Season
it is not too early to start
thinking about your holiday giving!
if your family, company or organization
you belong to is interested
in “adopting” a CRSS program or
facility we would love to work with
you! Towel sets, bathrobes, pajamas,
bedding and gift cards to
bookstores and Target make
fantastic gifts for our low income
seniors. Please contact us if you
are interested in learning more
at 314-961-8000 ext. 323.

Friends of Cardinal Ritter Senior Services
Holiday Appeal 2009
Mr. Joseph C. Botz
Memorials and
Honorariums
in honor of…
Rosie Fairhead
Mr. William J. Bollwerk
Ms. Mary K. Schrader
Mr. Rudy Schwarz
Rudy Schwarz's Birthday
Ms. Mary K. Schrader
Joan B. Wesley
Sr. Suzanne Wesley,
CSJ
Sr. Suzanne Wesley, CSJ
Mr. William J. Bollwerk
Ms. Cathy Steele
in memory of…
Yvonne Amad
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Gary D.
Ault
Mr. and Mrs. Jason N.
Clayton
Mr. and Mrs. John
Halvorson
Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Maddock
New Testament Baptist
Church
Ms. Renee Pekarek
Mr. Robert W. Vondera
Doris Ameiss
Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Ameiss
Berni, Mike and
Barbaglia Family
Ms. Josephine
Barbaglia
Gladys Becker
Mr. and Mrs. Harold L.
Goldenberg
Contributions March 16th through July 15th
Kenneth Biby
Mrs. Betty J. Bresler
Lois Boggs
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R.
Magnusson
Dorothy E. Bohning
Ms. Patricia L. Demuth
Bette Botz
Mr. Joseph C. Botz
Nell Broker
Mrs. Carol Edelmann
Diane M. Cook
Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Lauria
Sr. Mariann DeBuck, CSJ
Sr. Suzanne Wesley,
CSJ
Janet Dickerson
Ms. Gertrude M.
Bucher
Hazel Fox
Ms. Marie Fox
Ms. Mary Fox
Ms. Nancy Fox
Jane and Elmo Gaffney
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J.
Uxa
Lea Gioia
Mr. and Mrs. James
Gioia
Robert Gravlin
Mr. Leo W. Rechtien
Ana Hammel
Mr. and Mrs. James
Gioia
Vincent Hanley
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell
Kalist
Marcella Hilse
Ms. Norma J. Brehm
Ronald P. Knebel
Ms. Shirley M. Grams
Richard Kuhn
Mrs. Patti Schott
Sr. Suzanne Wesley,
CSJ
August J. Mantia
Ms. Clare H. Mantia
Robert D. Martens
Ms. Leona Martens
Jack McDowell
Ms. Louise J. McDowell
Katherine R. Mees
The Blue Stockings
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B.
Brown
Mr. and Mrs. John
Dunn
Ms. Cathy Geroff
Mr. and Mrs. Peter S.
Maher
Ms. Julie Matthews
Mr. and Mrs. Greg
Mueller
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Q.
Radzom
Mr. and Mrs. Kurt H.
Studt
Ms. Joanne M. Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
Tokarz
Mr. and Mrs. Gary M.
Weintraub
Charles L. and Ruth C.
Merlotti
Ms. Marilyn Williams
Eugene Naunheim
Ms. Jacquelin S.
Naunheim
Dolores A. Panelka
Mr. and Mrs. Aldo
Guidi
Elbert Payne
Ms. Norma Mayberry
Thomas Perrone
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Perrone
Eleanor B. Randall
Mr. J. Russell Bley, Jr.
Marie Rechtien
Ms. Lorraine Kehoe
Anna & Joseph Serben
Mr. Nicholas Serben
Jennie Spezia
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Bellville
Catherine V. Sullivan
Ms. Paula Ankney
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Connole
Mr. and Mrs. Tod
O'Donoghue
John Tracy
Ms. Ann G. Tracy
Will Vanderwall
Mrs. Pearl T.
Vanderwall
Margaret Ann Ventimiglia
Mrs. Lillian C.
Ventimiglia
Leonard Volkerding
Mr. and Mrs. Donald B.
Moser
Norman Wesley
Sr. Suzanne Wesley,
CSJ
Blessing Garden
Bench
In memory of Darline
Wingbermuehle
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
G. Caputa
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney
Clements
Ms. Denise Johnson
Mr. Dale LeBlanc
Mr. and Mrs. Eliot
Simon
Please remember Cardinal Ritter Senior Services in your will and estate planning.
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Blessing Garden Bricks
In loving honor of Jane
C. Hartrich
All of the Hartrich Clan
In memory of Clarence &
Elsie, Marcella &
Jeanette
Ms. Elizabeth Tucker
In memory of Richard
Kuhn
Ms. Karen B. Pace
In memory of Margaret
R. Smith
Ms. Delores Diringer
In memory of Mildred &
Joseph Weinerth
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
K. Arens
In honor of Sr. Suzanne
Wesley, CSJ
Dr. Alexandra Guliano
Donations
Anonymous
Austin Machine Inc.
Ms. Penny Benz
Ms. Mary Kay Bonness
Ms. Rose M. Buehler
Ms. Sheryl L. Bunn
Mr. Ronald Coleman
Ms. Edna Deardeuff
Mr. and Mrs. Gerard J.
Erker
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W.
Flowers
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Forthaus
Mr. James T. Grass
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M.
Gunn
Mrs. Dolores M. Hacker
Mr. James Hartog
Ms. Rosemary Highley
Ms. Margaret A. Hilker
Mr. and Mrs. Joel E.
Hodapp
Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Hopfinger
Mr. Louis A. Kettenbach
Ms. Frances Knight
Ms. Evelyn Kruckemeyer
Sr. Joan Kuester, DC
Mr. and Mrs. Norbert F.
Ladd
Mr. and Mrs. John Lamb
Ms. Mary V. Linck
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.
Lombardo
Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Mahaffy
Mr. Donal F. Mahoney
Ms. Eugenia O.
McCormack
Oberweis Dairy, Inc.
Ms. Betty Palmero
Ms. Rosemary Pozzini
Ms. Marjorie Reilly
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J.
Remiger
South St. Louis Rehab
Institute Inc.
Sr. Maria Tessari, OSF
Dr. Milton M. Tofle
Mr. Frank VanBruesegen
Ms. Susan M. Wilson
Ms. Marie Woods
Ms. Dana Wurdack
Gift in Kind
Ms. Margaret Barr
Mr. and Mrs. David
Coughlin
Mr. Harry Deutsch
Ms. Rosemary Fairhead
Ms. JoAnn Fisher
Mr. and Mrs. Joel E.
Hodapp
Ms. Hope Holder
Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Siedband
Ms. Frances Smith
estates, Foundations,
Grants and Matching
Gifts
Fox Family Foundation
Horncrest Foundation,
Inc.
Old Newsboys Fund;
Suburban Journals
Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet
U.S. Bank Foundation
Vatterott Foundation
Walter, Marie and
Barbara Falk Family
Foundation
We Care, We Share
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Palmero
Ms. Florence Re
Ms. Carol A. Singler
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G.
Walther
Spring Appeal
Adorers of The Blood
of Christ
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Block
Ms. Mary Kay Bonness
Mr. William E. Bussen
Mr. Robert E. Byrne
Dr. Linda S. Campbell
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Chamberlain
Mr. Allen M. Conley
Mr. Donald Copping
Ms. Edna Deardeuff
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
Erker
Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Ferretti
Ms. Margaret Garwood
Ms. Jane H. Gerth
Mr. James T. Grass
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Greco
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grush
Mr. and Mrs. Aldo Guidi
Ms. Shirley Heet
Ms. Rita Mae Hesser
Mr. and Mrs. Joel E.
Hodapp
Ms. Frances Knight
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Kremer
Mr. Enid J. Krull
Ms. Marilyn Lamb
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Landholt
Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Leipholtz
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.
Lombardo
Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Mahaffy
Mr. Christopher J.
Mattingly
Ms. Mary A. McDuffie
Mr. and Mrs. James C.
Mueller
Ms. Betty Palmero
Ms. Michelle M. Piranio
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil C.
Puetz
Mr. and Mrs. Brun S.
Puscian
Mr. Donald G. Quante
Records Management
Solutions
Ms. E. Josephine
Rodgers
Ms. Wanda J. Rolfes
Ms. Delores Rosse
Mr. Edward R. Schott
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J.
Stephens
Mr. and Mrs. Buzz
Swanston
Mr. David W. Trippe
Ms. Marilyn Ulrich
Ms. Susan M. Wilson
All donations for the
November 5th fundraiser,
An Evening with Motown,
will be acknowledged in
the December Living.
Please remember Cardinal Ritter Senior Services in your will and estate planning.
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Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Cardinal Ritter Senior Services Retired Senior
Volunteer Program (RSVP) is home to over 900
St. Louis area volunteers. RSVP is open to adults age 55
and older that would like to volunteer for community
service organizations. There are no dues or fees. RSVP
provides supplemental insurance that includes accident,
personal liability, and excess automobile insurance to
volunteers on the job or in transit to their station. This
program also reimburses volunteers for mileage
and meals while they are serving.
Join RSVP and support the
cumulative efforts of over 500,000
senior adults throughout the
United States.
The Young Friends of CRSS held its first
networking/service event this past June.
Several Young Friends volunteers gathered
at DuBourg House for a happy hour/game
night with residents. A great time was had
by all and the residents can’t wait for the
group to come back!
our next event will be a social networking
happy hour in September (date TBD).
For more information, please contact the
development office at (314) 961-8000 ext.
347 or by email at kethington@ccstl.org.
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If you’re presently volunteering, please help RSVP
by logging the time you’re already contributing. If
you’re looking for a volunteer position, RSVP can place
you at a community site that suits your needs or you
can participate from your own home by participating in
one of RSVP’s intergenerational programs: Granny’s
Blankets (seniors crocheting baby blankets for newborns)
and the Pen Pal Program (seniors writing
monthly letters to third graders).
The opportunities are endless. Use
your skills to make your community
a better place. Get involved and
join RSVP today! Call (314)
918-2294 to sign up.
Young Friends of CRSS Do you already support CRSS?
Would you like to save stamps and
checks? Would you like to further your
commitment to senior adults without
resources? Please consider enrolling in
automatic giving. it is quick, cost saving
to you and beneficial to CRSS and
our senior adults. To learn more about
this program or to sign up, please visit
www.myowngiving.com/Default.aspx?ci
d=94 or contact the development office
(314) 961-8000 ext. 323.

• St. Williams I (in Dardenne Prairie) and St. Agnes
(in South City) Apartments would like some volunteers
to help with gardening and landscaping at
their facilities
• Our St. Charles Adult Daycare Program (St. Robert
Bellarmine Parish) would love to have some volunteer
entertainers - if you can play an instrument or
sing, your talents would be greatly appreciated.
They also need friendly visitor volunteers and
someone who could help serve snacks and lunches.
• The activities department at Mary Queen and Mother
Center could use help with transporting residents to
and from various activities, as well as assisting residents
with playing games, special parties and cooking
activities. These activities occur daily from 1:30
Volunteers
Young Neighbors in Action and
Life Teen Volunteers at CRSS
This summer Young Neighbors in Action volunteers from
Wisconsin and Life Teen volunteers from South Dakota and Nebraska
descended upon our facilities, bringing energy and enthusiasm and a
lot of hard work to DuBourg House, Our Lady Of Life
Apartments, Mary Queen and Mother Center, St.
Elizabeth’s Assisted Living Facility and our Shrewsbury
Adult Daycare Program.
In June, several teens from the Green Bay area spent
3 days at DuBourg House where they organized the activity
closet, washed the resident’s bus, put in a new garden
and fountain, and played games and visited with residents.
On their last day with us, the staff at DuBourg
House rewarded them for all of their hard work by taking
them for a tasty treat at Ted Drewes!
In July, 20 teens from Omaha and the Pierre and
Piedmont areas in South Dakota spent 4 days
painting at our Shrewsbury Adult Daycare
Program, sprucing up the building at St.
Elizabeth’s, cleaning carports and doing some
landscape cleanup at Our Lady of Life, and shining
up the resident’s wheelchairs at Mary Queen
and Mother Center.
We are very grateful for the long distances
these volunteers traveled and for all of their hard
work and the wonderful joy and cheerfulness that
they brought to our residents!
Help Wanted:
7
to 3:30 p.m. and on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. They would also like
a volunteer to assist with resident spa time on the
first Wednesday of the month from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and
a volunteer who would like to play poker with residents
on Tuesday mornings at 11 a.m.
• Our Property Maintenance department (Shrewsbury
Campus) needs someone approximately 3 hours per
week to help with some general clerical duties like
filing and data entry into a spreadsheet and the
Human Resource Department would like a volunteer
to greet and direct visitors, answer the telephone,
file, copy and stock supplies.
• The gift shop at Mary Queen and Mother Center is looking
for volunteers to work a 4 hour shift each Thursday.
if you, or anyone you know, would like to volunteer for one of the above opportunities, please contact the
development office at (314) 961-8000 ext. 347 or by email at kethington@ccstl.org

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MiSSioN STATeMeNT
Inspired by the teachings of
Jesus Christ, the mission of
Cardinal Ritter Senior Services is
to be a recognized provider of
first choice in providing an
integrated continuum of quality
housing, residential, healthcare
and supportive social services for
senior adults throughout the
Archdiocese of Saint Louis.
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7601 Watson Road
St. Louis, MO 63119
www.cardinalritterseniorservices.org
NONPROFiT ORg.
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PAID
sT. LOuis, MO
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CRSS is partnering with Borders books for a CRSS benefit weekend. Use this coupon at any of the local
St. Louis Borders stores the weekend of August 28th and 29th and CRSS receives a portion of the sale.
Not in St. Louis or prefer to shop on line? Use the internet code located on the coupon and CRSS
receives a portion of your internet purchase!
The more you spend the higher the percent given to Cardinal Ritter Senior Services!
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