Photo by Keith Stewart
Courtyard Estates’ resident Eloise Heidbreeder (left) dances with her daughter Carol while the Melvin Reynolds Jr. band performs Saturday during the five year celebration of the facility.

Area bands, family and friends make for special day

by Barry Featheringill
Sullivan Reporter

Five years ago this October, Mary Jane Harshbarger made the transition into assisted living, a move that can often times be difficult to make given many older individuals’ long-held love of independence. But it was upon her niece’s kind coercion and in light of Harshbarger’s difficulty taking medication on time, that Mary Jane became the first resident of Courtyard Estates in Sullivan.

On Saturday, she along with her fellow residents, family members, and friends celebrated five years of assisted living at the Sullivan facility.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.