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By Valerie Schremp Hahn
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/04/2007
ST. CHARLES — At 5:30 in the morning, 102-year-old Homer Plackmeyer can't just roll over in bed and sleep in. The residents on the second floor of Building D at Parkside Meadows Retirement Community in St. Charles depend on him. They want their newspaper, and he's their paperboy.Actually, he doesn't have to deliver the papers. He volunteers. When he moved to Parkside nearly three years ago, a woman delivered them, and he didn't think that was right, he said. "Those ladies can't handle those papers," he said. "Most all of them, they're not kids anymore." So he gladly took over.
Homer Plackmeyer checks papers for the apartment numbers before putting them in his cart for delivery on the second floor of Parkside Meadows retirement community.
1 comment:
If you knew homer at all, then you would know that he is a Baseball Cardinal historian, still at 103, he is as sharp as ever with the facts!
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