Mount Pleasant Senior Living 2019

www.CharlestonRetirementLifestyle.com | www.RetiringToSC.com | www.HotRetirementTowns.com senior living SL finally happened at the end of that summer when Barbara was preparing to return for her senior year at Ashley Hall, and Bush was preparing to go to Navy flight training in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Bush later wrote to his mother, “Kissing is not an obligation a girl owes a boy regardless of how often he takes her out or how much money he spends,” he wrote. “I kissed Barbara and am glad of it. I don’t believe she will ever regret it or resent it, and I certainly am not ashamed of it.” He proposed about a year and a half after they met and gushed his love for her in the only surviving letter written during World War II from George to Barbara — she lost all the other letters he had written her. “My darling Bar, I love you, precious, with all my heart and to know that you love me means my life. How often I have thought about the immeasurable joy that will be ours some day. How lucky our children will be to have a mother like you. … Bar, you have made my life full of everything I could ever dream of — my complete happiness should be a token of my love for you.” They were married for 73 years before they both passed away last year, nearly 77 years after that Christmas dance. Barbara, Class of 1943, returned to her Ashley Hall alma mater in her later years. She visited in 1999, and commented, “It was really lovely with so many new buildings, including a new swimming pool. I saw the grove where I used to be in school plays. … It had all changed so — from a day / boarding school to a much bigger campus and no boarders.” The school even coordinated with seven of her former classmates for a small reunion. Her time at the school is perhaps best summed up in a speech she gave at Ashley Hall’s 1984 graduation: “Ashley Hall taught me the importance of friendship and values. They were treasured years and remembered fondly.” In 2016, the last time she visited before her death, she was asked her favorite memory of Ashley Hall. “I have lots of great memories of my time here. Particularly receiving letters from a young man named George Bush!” Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian. 1039 Hwy. 41, Suite 500 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466 843.971.1993 drtaragriffin.com P reventative D entistry i mPlant D entistry C osmetiC s erviCes r estorative D entistry D ental s avings P rogram