160 - Terri Mazer (Long Term Care, the Village of Riverside Glen)

Bridging the Social Distance · Sep 17, 2021 · 58m

For this episode I interview Terri Mazer, a resident in Long-Term Care at the Village of Riverside Glen, and she was joined by Rec-team member Nao. Terri was born in Hamilton, and some of her simplest memories are her fondest, like her weekly coffee meet-ups with her friends where they could catch up and gossip. Terri shared that she's over a hundred years old, and worked as a Teletypist as a young woman in WWII - a job that was top-secret during the war. It fascinating to hear the details of a job that she wouldn't have been able to describe at the time, receiving a slip of paper from her…