Tuesday, May 22, 2007

‘Celebrated citizen’ was adventurous, independent

Georgia Tilden was a doctor’s daughter, growing up when house calls were standard and you took a horse and buggy to get there. When she was old enough, Tilden learned to drive and would take her father to make his visits in the car.

Her daughter, Beth Parrish, describes her as “pretty adventurous.”

Tilden, 94, of La Grange, died Tuesday, May 8, 2007.

“She was very independent,” Parrish said. “She had a vision about how she wanted things to be.”

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Thursday, May 03, 2007

A long life of compassion

Mary Agnes Haunz learned to be frugal after growing up during the Depression.

“I think she invented recycling,” Sister Ruth Ann Haunz, an Ursuline nun, said of her mother. “She grew up very poor and learned values were much more important than things.

“But, she was extravagant with her love,” Haunz said.

Haunz, 97, of Pewee Valley, died Wednesday, April 25, 2007, in the presence of her eight children.

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