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Patsy Lucks:
A Woman On The Move
The 81-year-old
Webster resident
has authored a book
recounting her 33
moves over the past
60 years
by Andrea Sisney
Patricia Lucks has never seen a
house she wouldn’t live in and in her
81 years, she’s lived in a lot of them.
“I see the potential when I walk in
the front door,” Lucks said.
The current Webster Groves resi-
dent has moved 30 times, from Bonne
Terre and Shrewsbury to Pennsylva-
nia and California. Lucks has lived
in Webster Groves eight times in her
life, and five times in Crestwood. The
award-winning dress designer and
mother of five recently compiled her
experiences into a novel, “Patsy’s Sto-
ry: Little Lady on the Move.”
In an easy-to-read style, Lucks has
divided the book into chapters based
on streets where the family lived. She
recounts story upon story of her life
along the way. She dedicated the book
to her grandkids with the notation “If I
could turn back the clock, I would give
anything for my Grandmother to write
her story for me.”
“I hand-wrote the first three chap-
ters,” Lucks said. “Then my 20-year-
old grandson typed it up for me. He’s
a whiz at a computer but he told me, ‘I
can’t really read cursive.’”
Lucks moved across the country
with her husband, a traveling medical
equipment salesman who died in 1989
after a stroke. With five children in
tow, moving was often a difficult chal-
lenge, but Lucks found the potential
each new house brought to be alluring
and exciting.
“I’m sure you’ve heard the laugh
line, ‘I say jump’ and you say ‘how
high?’ Lucks writes. “My husband
would say ‘We’re moving to Baltimore
(or Pittsburgh or San Jose)’ and I
would say ‘When is the van coming?’”
Moving so many times, Lucks knew
what to do: Get the kids’ credentials
for school, plan and organize a garage
sale if needed, get substitutes for any
volunteer work she was doing, etc.
“Actually, if truth be told, I rather
liked moving to a place I’d never been
or even back to St. Louis where we
had family and friends. It was just a
bit of work to get it done. But wher-
ever it was, I never saw a house that
couldn’t be turned into a home as long
as it had four walls and a front door,”
Lucks writes.
Lucks noted that she’s always been
a fixer-upper of one kind or the other.
“For me, color is what is most im-
portant. There were so many different
houses, but even in the ones we rent-
ed, I did something to make it ours,” Patricia Lucks currently lives in Webster Groves, but she’s not ruling out the pos-
she said. sibility of another move.
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“When Is The Van Coming”
To turn the houses into
homes, Lucks painted
over 600 walls and ceil-
ings, made curtains
for some 328 windows,
wallpapered 107 rooms
and laid 17 tile floors.
Her first move as a
young bride was in Au-
gust 1950 to a duplex
on Charlack Avenue
in St. John. Since
the landlord decided
to make some im-
provements at the
last minute, the
young couple faced
three weeks in the
infamous Coral Courts motel.
“Whoever heard of a motel with a
private garage for each unit? (No win-
dows in the garage door either!) That’s
pretty high class, I guess,” she writes.
“Thankfully, my grandmother came to
the rescue of our reputation (and our
pocketbook).”
Her favorite house was the first she
and her husband bought, in Bethel
Park, Pa. Lucks says in her book that
it was love at first sight. The house on
Santa Fe Drive later allowed Lucks to
explore her love of architecture when
she designed an addition for their
home. The builder of the subdivision
later copied that design in several of
his construction sites.
“I always wanted to be an architect,
but my math wasn’t good enough,”
Lucks said. “I wanted to be close to it
so I designed dresses.”
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Webster Groves where she has lived,
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children complained
that the house
needed to be mod-
ernized with central
air, Lucks refused to
change the design of
the house.
“It was a beautiful,
old house,” Lucks said.
“I wanted it to stay old.
So we had to move.”
Webster Groves and
Kirkwood have changed
a lot since the days when
Lucks drove to the dry
goods store or the Velvet
Freeze, now Stratton’s
Cafe, in her beloved Volk-
swagen Bug – she has owned at
least 10 in her lifetime. Lucks writes
in her book that she would love to see “I rather liked
Old Orchard go back to what it was,
without all the traffic and noise.
moving to a place I’d
“My 80-year-old memory sometimes never been or even
fails me,” Lucks wrote. “Not on what
used to be, but what is in its place.” back to St. Louis
Now, Lucks spends her time in Co-
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and knitting. She has made afghans
for her five children and 10 grandchil- family and friends.
dren, and she crochets baby blankets
for expectant mothers whose husbands
It was just a bit of
are serving in Iraq. work to get it done.”
Lucks hasn’t ruled out another
move. She doesn’t know how long she’ll
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“I told my sister, ‘I’ve moved 30
times, one more won’t hurt me,’” Lucks
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New Senior Ministry Kicks Off On Jan. 23
SAJE Senior Ministry was founded by three
congregations in Crestwood/Sunset Area
A new group for area older adults,
SAJE Senior Ministry, is planning a
kickoff event on Sunday Jan. 23, noon,
in the Community Room of Crestwood
Court, located at Watson and
Sappington roads. The event begins at
noon.
The new ministry was formed to
offer programs to older adults in the
Crestwood/Sunset Hills area.
Programs are spiritual, physical/
health, intellectual, cultural, and
social in nature. With the help of its
parish nurse Deb Goldfeder, SAJE is
also able to offer consultation and
referrals to residents with regard to
home health care, housing options,
etc.
The group was founded by three
congregations in the Crestwood/Sunset
Hills area: Advent Episcopal, St.
Justin Martyr, and St. Elizabeth of
Hungary. SAJE hopes to add another
congregation in early 2011.
SAJE is open to all residents of the
neighborhoods, not just members of
the founding congregations. Its goal is
to provide meaningful events and
opportunities for older adults that will
allow them to remain active and inde-
pendent as long as possible.
Although it is just beginning, SAJE
is similar in purpose to The Shepherd
Center, located at Webster Hills
United Methodist Church at Lockwood
and Berry in Glendale.
The Jan. 23 kickoff for SAJE will
begin at noon with an Ecumenical
Prayer Service at 12:30 p.m. led by Fr.
Lockwood of St. Elizabeth of Hungary,
Fr. Weber of St. Justin Martyr and Fr.
Dan Handschy of Episcopal Church of
the Advent.
Attendees can meet the participat-
ing organizations at 1 p.m., followed
by an optional box lunch from the
Bread and Honey Bakery at 1:15 p.m.
(Vegetarian and gluten-free options
available.)
Reservations to the kickoff are
requested by Friday, Jan. 21, by call-
ing Amy LeMieux at 664-9700 at
SGSM (formerly South Grand Senior
Ministry), SAJE’s umbrella organiza-
tion. If ordering a box lunch, make With the help of Parish Nurse Deb Goldfeder SAJE can offer consultation and
check for $7 payable to SGSM. referrals to residents.
Everyone is welcome.
Help celebrate this neighborhood
ministry of health and wellness, fel- Programs offered by SAJE Senior Services
lowship, and spiritual nourishment:
socialize with new friends, register for Exercise for Older Adults
the programs, and learn how SAJE • Mondays, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
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adults in the community.
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• Meets the second Thursday of each month 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
health fair in the spring, a housing
transition fair thereafter, and an art Advent Episcopal, 9373 Garber.
fair for older adult artists in the fall.
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Make plans to attend the second an-
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South County Times newspapers.
The resource fair for older adults
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hibits of interest to those enjoying the
prime time of their lives. It will be held
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at Orlando Gardens Banquet and Con-
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Admission is free.
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