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Robert Carr, Robert Carr

East Salem (Ore.) Church member

By Robert Carr, Robert Carr

  • The Elder Emeritus His Name Was Ed

    March 01, 2011, by Robert Carr, Robert Carr
    I never knew his last name. Like Peter, James, John and Paul, it never seemed to matter. He was no longer young, but in his later eighties. His wife had died and he had been urged into an assisted living care home in Salem, Oregon. Ed walked the a...
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  • The Elder Emeritus

    January 01, 2011, by Robert Carr, Robert Carr
    I never knew his last name. Like Peter, James, John and Paul, it never seemed to matter. As Ed walked the aisles of the assisted living care home in Salem, Oregon, he noticed in others an abject loneliness, and set out to do something about it. "W...
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  • The Elder Emeritus

    November 01, 2010, by Robert Carr, Robert Carr
    I never knew his last name. Like Peter, James, John and Paul, it never seemed to matter. He was no longer young, but in his later eighties. His wife had died and he had been urged into an assisted living care home in Salem, Oregon. Ed walked the a...
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