For parents teaching their children to garden, it is hard to compete with the apps on their tablets and phones, such as “Farmville” and “Grow A Garden,” that grow plants and communities seemingly overnight.
In 1986 Mr. Farnum retired from Becton-Dickinson Medical Supplies in Canaan, Connecticut, where he had worked as an architectural draftsman for 18 years.
They frequently went to the ITAM Lodge in Pittsfield to listen to the bands and so Lucy could dance. She liked to do the polka, which she continued to do until she was 86 years old.
Olga had been a resident of Sheffield for the past 10 years, during which time she attended Christ Church Episcopal and Trinity Lutheran Church in Sheffield.