Featured Resident Archives
Our residents are a diverse, fun and friendly group of people. They come from a variety of backgrounds, races and religions and this blend of personalities, experiences and cultures is a real plus.
You're bound to meet someone a lot like you, and at the same time have the opportunity to get to know others from whom you might gain a new perspective. You'll soon meet new and lasting friends here at Hilltop House! Won't you come join us?
We shine the spotlight on some of our special residents in this "Featured" section. You'll find lots of really interesting, diverse and talented people here.
From the time Amber was a little girl, it was very clear that one of her values is justice. She cannot stand to see anyone treated unfairly. She was born in McPherson, Kansas where her father was president of a small Christian college and her mother taught elocution at the college. She was the baby of four children with two older sisters and one brother. It was a town of 2,000 and she recalls more ...
In 1978, Bob Porter accepted a teaching assignment at the Tehran International School, teaching German and English to high school students and in the evening, he taught English to junior college students a little outside the main part of town. Six weeks into the school year, the revolution began. Everywhere you went, students were excited and all Iranians were tuned into their transistor more ...
Chellie’s parents made their first missionary journey to India in 1917 during World War I. They traveled under blackout conditions and dodging German submarines. Chellie’s oldest brother Tracy was three when they made the trip and another brother Charles was born in 1918 and Chellie followed in 1921. They lived in Hanamakonda, South India. Three months after her birth, the family was more ...
Chris was one of those rare ones who is actually a Seattle native. He was born at Swedish Hospital in October of 1922. Even though his parents had moved to Seattle by the time he was born, they met under unusual circumstances. His father was with the Mediterranean fleet and they docked in Constantinople. He also did relief work with Armenian children in Turkey and the Turks thought he was a more ...
David Freeman is a New Zealander by birth. He was born in 1923 in Dunedin, New Zealand. This is a town located on the south-eastern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. He remembers lots of beaches and streams where he and his family spent many Sunday afternoons picnicking. He said it is lush and green with a plentiful rainfall and the literature describes it as full of sheer physical more ...
Ineta Chamblis was born in her great grandparents' house in Brennan, Texas. Her great grandmother was a midwife and she delivered Ineta.
Ineta's father died of pneumonia less than a month after she was born. The great grandparents persuaded Ineta's mother to come and live with them so that Ineta would have a father. Ineta and her mother moved in with them, but the mother could not more ...
Lou's work in the garden began very early in Youngstown, Ohio where he was born in 1921. He describes his childhood by saying "He had the run of the neighborhood" and pulled up gardens, picked cherries and peaches off the neighbors' trees. He never got caught because it was "night work." Says he was an average kid in high school, played football in jr. high, broke his leg twice and worked more ...
Maro Kentros (foreground) and Ann Burnham attending a "Seniors Making Art" watercolor class.
Maro has had a busy career in retail fashion, as a magazine writer and photojournalist, art gallery director and travel agent. Currently she is writing a novel about Greek Americans, and has had several poems more ...
Matthew was a professional boxer. He had a debilitating stroke several years ago and his doctor told him that he owes his life and the progress he has made in recovery to the fact that he is in very good physical shape.
He trains every day as he did during his boxing career, doing sit-ups, squats, bike riding and walking backwards. His tenacity and determination are more ...
Ossie is a Texas boy, born in Huntsville. He was the oldest of four children, three surviving childhood. He and his two brothers were raised by their maternal grandparents.
Ossie's father moved to California and worked in a steel mill in Pittsburg, California. He is now 96 and worked until they made him retire in his 70's. Ossie still speaks to him almost daily.
In 1945, the more ...
Yohosha Costello, known to us as Yoshi, refers to himself as a card, a fool on purpose, one who tries to joke with people and does not always succeed. He also claims to have the ability to get one's goat easily. So, watch out!
He was born in Spokane, the oldest child in his family. He has a brother four years younger and a sister 12 years younger. Their father was employed by the SSI, more ...
