Who Lives Here
Getting involved, staying engaged, giving back. Asbury residents care about making a difference in their community, in the world and with their neighbors. Every resident is different but they are all committed to making life better in their own way. Here are their stories.
Focusing on LGBTQ+ Inclusivity
Asbury Methodist Village was the first Maryland retirement community to earn SAGECare Platinum certification. Resident Alice Wong, a long-time member of PFLAG, has been an activist for inclusivity at Asbury’s Gaithersburg campus and more broadly. Read More »
Unpacking a 100-Year History
As a second-generation resident of Asbury Methodist Village, Hal Gaut’s quest to create a digital archive of the community’s rich past has been the work and passion of many years. Read More »
Riding to Remember
Riding to RememberHugh Valentine, founding member of the Buffalo Soldiers Maryland motorcycle club and retired D.C. police officer, rides to bring attention to the contributions that troops of color have made both at war and in their communities. Read More »
Space Race Career Launches Active Retirement
Barbara Harbison swears this will be the year she retires — again. A resident of Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, MD, since 2014, Barbara’s definition of retirement isn’t quite textbook. Read More »
A Globetrotter Finds a Home
Recently retired from a public health career, Sharon Rudy has traveled to more than 70 countries over the course of her life. Now, she’s happily consulting and seeing what adventures this stage has in store. Read More »
Couple Logs 400 Miles in England
Meet Ron Stevenson and Pam Parmer. Outdoor enthusiasts who have taken three 100-mile walks across England and Scotland, Ron and Pam most recently celebrated Ron’s 81st birthday hiking at Glacier National Park. Read More »
Paying It Forward
He’s never been a teacher, yet Fred Brown has helped shape the future of thousands of students across the United States. Read More »
Carlee & Howard Hallman
By Rev. Carlee Hallman
Even knowing the value and benefits of moving to a retirement community, the journey a person must travel in order to get there is emotionally challenging. Read More »
William Fox
What do you do when you’re just weeks away from flying out for your annual teaching gig with students of the Transnational School of Law at Peking University and a global pandemic upends everything? Dismantle a flight simulator, get busy on YouTube, and create a virtual classroom! Read More »
The Building Blocks of Healthy Aging: Edith Isacke
At 90 years old, Edith Isacke is a veritable poster child for the rewards of a life well”ness” lived. Read More »
Ruth Anne Thran: A Glimpse of Cuba
When Villas resident Ruth Anne Thran saw an advertisement posted by a choral group at Asbury Methodist Village for a People to People Cultural Exchange to Cuba, she was the first one to sign up. Read More »
A Writer’s Life: Phyllis Naylor
It’s the rare octogenarian who has higher name recognition among today’s youth than she does among her peers, but that just might be the case with Phyllis Naylor. Read More »
A Friendship for the Ages
When Barbara Fletcher, Nancy Fassett and Margaret Sugg first teamed up as roommates in Washington, D.C., during the 1960s, they never would have predicted they would be moving to a retirement community together four decades later. Read More »
George Stosur
Many of you have enjoyed lectures by our celebrated Courtyard Homes resident George Stosur, now retired from government service. He is a thrice-appointed Distinguished Lecturer by an international engineering society and, counting other lectures including cruise ships, he has delivered nearly 300 lectures around the world. Read More »
Donna Schramm
She grew up in a family that moved from one American Indian reservation to another in Montana following her father’s career in the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Her father‘s transfer to a post in the Interior Department’s Washington office brought even more abrupt change. Read More »
