A few weeks ago, my husband, Jeff, our neighbor, Margaret Welch, my granddaughter Nora, and I were walking to the new playground at Greg Freeman Park around 7:30 a.m., on a random Wednesday morning, when we heard a man shouting.
Margaret Welch
The Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood, the city of St. Louis and this newspaper lost a champion with the death of Jo Ann Vatcha, a longtime resident of the 6100 Westminster Place block.
“That is a tetanus shot waiting to happen,” is how one toddler’s parent described the Four-Corners Playground before renovations this past spring.
Who walks or drives almost daily the 6000 and 6100 blocks of Waterman, McPherson, Kingsbury and Westminster wearing a blue uniform, carrying a large satchel and sporting a wide grin and a bushy beard?
Remembered for her irreverent humor, wit and her must-see Blueberry Hill windows adorning the Delmar Loop for 40 years, Linda Edwards died February 15.
Editor’s Note: Meetings are held the second Monday every month at 7:00 p.m. at the Community Council office at 6008 Kingsbury Avenue.
