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Meet Our Grandfriends
Each Grandfriend is a real person with a rich life story, warm personality, and a whole lot of love to give. Browse their profiles and find the one that speaks to your heart.
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"Dot" Dorothy Kowalski
84 years old
📍 Sunny Pines Nursing Home, Chicago, IL
Dot spent 40 years as a school librarian and has read every book in Sunny Pines twice. She keeps a running list of who owes her at gin rummy and the debt is astronomical.
Harold Buchanan
91 years old
📍 Meadowbrook Care Center, Austin, TX
Harold is a retired engineer who once designed a bridge that is still standing in Iowa. He now applies the same precision to tracking the weather, which he insists is 'more of a science than meteorologists admit.'
Eunice Pettigrew
78 years old
📍 Golden Years Facility, Portland, OR
Eunice was a florist for 35 years and can identify any flower by scent alone. She has started a secret watercolor club that is technically not approved by facility management but everyone looks the other way.
"Wally" Walter Nkrumah
86 years old
📍 Sunrise Senior Living, Miami, FL
Wally spent decades as a jazz musician touring the country and has stories about every major city in America. He insists the best fish he ever caught was 'this big' and the measurement gets larger every telling.
Mildred Fontaine
82 years old
📍 Harmony Hills Care Home, Nashville, TN
Mildred was a legendary home cook whose biscuits once won a three-county fair and she has the ribbon to prove it, framed, in her room. She is currently knitting what she describes as 'a very ambitious sweater' that has been in progress since 2019.
Chester Okonkwo
88 years old
📍 Lakewood Nursing Center, Seattle, WA
Chester was a history professor for 30 years and can recite the order of every US president, vice president, and their birthdays. He is currently teaching himself chess openings and considers the other residents 'a warm-up.'
"Bea" Beatrice Zimmermann
79 years old
📍 Blue Ridge Senior Care, Asheville, NC
Bea hiked the entire Appalachian Trail at 65 and has the photos to prove it. She now leads a seated stretching class and is fiercer about attendance than she was about summiting mountains.
Reginald Ashworth
93 years old
📍 Palm Gardens Care Home, Phoenix, AZ
Reginald is the oldest resident at Palm Gardens and carries himself with the authority of someone who knows it. He once shook hands with a senator and will tell you about it approximately once per conversation.
Agnes Kowalczyk
81 years old
📍 Riverside Nursing Home, Minneapolis, MN
Agnes immigrated from Poland at 22 with nothing but a suitcase and a recipe for pierogi that she refuses to write down for anyone. She is the undisputed Wheel of Fortune champion of Riverside and takes no prisoners.
Lorenzo Espinoza
77 years old
📍 Sunshine Manor, San Antonio, TX
Lorenzo built his own house at 35 and then built a second one just to see if he could. He now applies his woodworking skills to elaborate birdhouses and furniture that the staff politely pretends to have room for.
Ethel Mae Washington
85 years old
📍 Magnolia Grove Care Center, Atlanta, GA
Ethel Mae sang in a gospel choir for 50 years and has a voice that can still stop a room. She organizes the weekly sing-along with the energy of someone half her age and twice the volume.
"Frank" Franklin Shimizu
90 years old
📍 Pacific View Senior Living, San Jose, CA
Frank spent 35 years as a software engineer and still reads tech news, loudly disagreeing with most of it. He holds the Pacific View record for fastest completion of the Sunday crossword and has been very clear that this is a serious record.
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