Resident of the Month

Assisted Living

Charles Motes

Charles Motes was born and raised in Anderson County. He was the youngest of three with two older sisters. As a farm boy he fell in love with the outdoors. His sisters always said if you were looking for Charlie start looking for him up in the trees. He married Patricia Alewine in 1967, and they had two children a boy and a girl. They were together until her death in 2017, just months shy of their 50th anniversary.

His mechanical ability to fix anything broken came in handy with his favorite job, a civilian aircraft mechanic on military aircraft, specifically 101 Voodoos and 102 Delta Wings. He later joined AnMed on the air conditioning engineering team. It was with Anmed that he retired and began remodeling the farm house where he was born.

Charles was an avid hiker, joining the Anderson Hiking Club on their monthly hikes throughout the mountains of North and South Carolina and Georgia . He was also an assistant scout master and a free mason.

“ We like living at Legacy Reserve because there is never a dull moment! ”

Independent Living

Geri Kowalski

I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised on Long Island, New York. I met mywonderful husband Ralph at a Polish dance in 1969. He had just returned from servingtwo years in Vietnam.

A year later we married. We were married for 51 amazingyears and had 2 boys Bill born in 1972 and Matt in 1974. Ralph worked for UTC on Long Island for over 30 years. I worked for Flair Mfg. as anaccount manager and moved up to operations manager, working there for 25 years. We moved to Simpsonville, South Carolina in 1995.

Here we started our new life,Ralph worked for Graphic Printing Until he retired in 2010. I worked for a companycalled CSI (no it wasn’t Crime Scene Investigations) a plastic mfg. company whoprimarily manufactured dumpster lids. I worked there for 10 years.

Ralph retired in 2010 and I retired in 2014. On June 1, 2022 I moved to LegacyReserve. I am blessed, have 2 great sons, a wonderful daughter-in-law Sonya, 3beautiful granddaughters one of them is actually a great granddaughter.

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