Farrens eventually did, too, after hanging up his clippers.Ī volunteer with Serenity Hospice in Salem helped facilitate the reunion, and the friendship that was forged over a photograph was rekindled, just in time, too.
Abel, a retired civil structural engineer, moved away from Aurora. The two men recently reconnected after losing touch. “You’ve got to start at the bottom and work up,” Abel kidded him. I was supposed to be learning the equipment.”Ībel heard that story for the first time during a late-May visit with Farrens at Willson House Residential Care. “I wasn’t happy about it – it was horrible - and I went to complain. “I patched hemorrhoids for 41 days,” he said with a chuckle. Farrens also supervised nurses at the hospital, but not before putting in his time.
