by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Features, Local servcies, People, Top Story
Growing old and alone in Rappahannock County Nancy Studds is 79 and lives by herself in her Sperryville home. And that gives her pause. “If you fall and you can’t get up,” she said, “you know nobody’s checking on you.” She zeroed in on a common fear among seniors...
by Randy Rieland | Mar 19, 2025 | Features, People
Suzanne Winter-Rose remembers well the day she met Bess Lucking. It was September 2023 and Winter-Rose, a Rapp at Home volunteer, had been told about a 99-year-old woman living atop White Rose Mountain, near Sperryville. The woman — Winter-Rose heard — wasn’t much...
by Bob Hurley | Jul 8, 2020 | Art, Health, Local Services, People
Joe Kimpflen: Case manager for adult services, Rappahannock County Department of Social Services; Cabrini College, B.A., Bryn Mawr College M.S.S.; former volunteer EMT in Loudoun County; behavioral health specialist at Prince William Medical Center in Manassas and...