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"It's pure theater here," Ms.
Reynolds observed with a
straight face. "This is my first
Jewish experience. rd like to stay
within the community. I love the
culture and the people."
Ms. Reynolds said her own
family is scattered around the
country, but she found a substi-
tute at Prentis.
"It's wonderful here. I feel bad-
ly that it's closing,"-she said.
A few feet away, Ms. Miller,
86, sat in her wheelchair in the
lobby, waiting for a ride to Dan-
to. She clasped the handles of a
coveted plastic shopping bag that
leaned against the side of her
wheelchair.
"I am sorry I have to leave. I
liked it very much," she said of
Prentis. "You get to know people.
People who took care of me, we
got to understand each other —
our likes and our dis-
likes."
A soft-spoken woman
going to Borman Hall or Pren- with a crown of snow-
tis. She chose the latter. white hair, Ms. Miller
"I liked working with a sickechoed other people's
er P°Pulatim I can do more fir sentiments on Monday,
them," she saYs. "When I g° calling Prentis "a big
home, I know rve accomplished family:,
something. I feel happy. I slid
Her husband died in
this for a mitzvah- Why not?" 1973, but it wasn't until
"All the patients 1°ve EtIca, four years ago that Ms.
says Miller moved out of
Li
and you
, can see whY,"
Margot rarr, executive wrec- their Detroit apartment
for of Jewish Home for Aged.
into Prentis. A stiff leg
Ms- Zomberg believes her prevents her from walk-
* in turned around a Pa- g on her own.
°Ptilnis
tient who had starved herself She stared straight
d°wn to 50 pounds. Today, the ahead, a slight smile on
woman weighs 105 and has a her face as if she was
full head of hair- deep in thought.
"You have to have a trick,"
"j tell you, rm not im-
she exPlains•
pressed by beautiful
Ms. Zomberg, who says only things," she said.
that she is over 65 years old, "What's important is
was born in Poland, but as a what they serve in the
young girl moved to pre-state kitchen." D
Israel with her family. When
her parents returned to Poland
to sell their property, they were
snared by the Na7is and killed.
She remained in Israel, where she Met
her husband Yaakov, and eventually fol-
lowed him to France. They came to De-
troit via Switzerland in 1950.
The normal dead-
Ms. Zomberg's daughter, Ma.riette
line for local news
Goldberg, is a French teacher in the area
and publicity items
who has three sons, one of whom recently
entered Harvard as an undergraduate.
is noon Thursday,
Another is in medical school in Califor-
eight days prior to
nia. Another "manages cars" in the area,
issue date. The
Ms. Zomberg says, beaming.
deadline for out-
Just as quickly as her face lights up,
of-town obituaries
her
eyes.
She
is
pondering
tears leap to
the end of an era. She and Prentis grew
is 10 a.m. Tuesday,
up together.
three days prior to
"I can't believe they're selling it. rm
issue date.
sad for the old people. They know us al-
ready. When they transfer you to another
All material must
place, they don't 'mow you," Ms. Zomberg
be typewritten,
says.
double-spaced, on
On Monday, as the staff readied 10
Predis residents for transfer to the Dan-
8 1 /2x 11 paper and
to facility, she briskly tended to her
include the name
charges as if nothing was about to
and daytime tele-
change.
phone
number of
All the while, stubborn tears clung
sender.
to her cheeks. D

near the Torah ark on Monday
morning.
Ms. Partrite, who came to the
United States from Ukraine in
1934, said she'll be sharing a
room at Danto with another
Prentis resident who doesn't talk.
But her good friend Margaret
Miller is also going to Danto, she
pointed out.
"What have I got to lose [by go-
ing]?" she wondered aloud. "I
hope the food should be better."
Clara Reynolds, the director
of nursing at Prentis for the past
two years, scurried around the
lobby Monday helping residents
gather up their things. She took
a break and watched the scene
in the lobby from a chair in her
office. Ida, a resident, took an-
other constitutional around the
lobby with her walker, her hair
rolled up tightly in curlers.

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