Not only are the patrons at the Dodge City Senior Center patient, they're also helpful — even when it comes to something that can get many people crabby, like mealtimes.
While they were waiting for the center to remodel its kitchen, many of the seniors took turns traveling to Minneola every day, Monday through Friday, to get hot lunches for everyone else.
Vernon and Mary Lou Agur's day was Thursday.
"We'd leave here at about 8 a.m. and ride down in the van to the Minneola Senior Center," said Vernon. "We'd pick up the trays for our folks, as well as the Meals on Wheels people, and we'd get them back up here. Those trays would still be warm, and we'd put them in the warmer up here until it was time to eat."
The Agurs and their friends just like to help out.
"We enjoy coming here, and we want to do what we can," said Mary Lou. "Our table's just the wildest table in the place. We all talk and talk, joke around and just visit. We eat together every day."
Mary Lou knows it's lunch time when Gus Crump, 93, leaps up and pulls out her chair.
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