A Nice Photo of Sigrid

Sigrid volunteers for a number of things at John Knox Village. She, along with Edel DeMaria, runs the Ice Cream Shop at the Care Center on Sundays from 1 to 4 PM.

As a Hospice volunteer she maintains vases of fresh flowers in each Hospice patients room. This involves picking up the old vases, cleaning them, picking up donated flowers from Hy-Vee, arranging the flowers in the vases, and delivering them to the Care Center. She does this every week. There can be from 30 to 70 vases each week.

The photo below is from the Village Hospice Magazine and shows Sigrid visiting with one of her patients. She assists them in any way she can by doing light house cleaning, fixing meals, running errands, and just about anything else short of medical related things. She helps the families after the death of her patient if needed (not a normal Hospice duty). She has had three patients over the last couple of years, but currently doesn't have a patient.

It isn't a job many people want to do because of the emotional downsides. Sigrid has a great attitude about what she does. She knows that her efforts are enormously appreciated and makes one of life's most unavoidable and dreaded events a little more bearable. I totally respect and admire her for her efforts.