Pioneers From the Home’s Early Days
The fathers of both Esther and Opal encouraged their daughters to consider working at the new Brethren Home in Cross Keys. “I was here for about a week before any of the patients came,” Esther said. Her father, Rev. Henry Miller, had been appointed by the Church of the Brethren district to supervise the hotel’s conversion into a nursing home. “I didn’t know whether I was going to stay,” she recalls, “but in the end I did.” ... Read More