He was 91.Ībel, 94, is grateful they had a chance to reminisce again about how Farrens had to sneak to take that photo. 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.
