Brownsville retirement home catches eye of Ford CEO
Aeolian Chapman (left) and her late husband used to ride around Haywood County in a classic white-top Ford convertible. (Courtesy Sugar Creek Senior Living/Brooke Evans)
Sugar Creek Senior Living dedicated their annual calendar to Ford Co. in honor of the new Blue Oval City site. (Courtesy Sugar Creek Senior Living/Brooke Evans)
Ford CEO Jim Farley took to Twitter to praise the facility’s creativit, saying, “Love it! Glad that Ford’s Blue Oval City will be a part of the West Tennessee community.” (Courtesy Sugar Creek Senior Living/Brooke Evans)
“They know that Ford will change our town,” said Diane Hooper, executive director of Sugar Creek. “But I think they’re very excited for future generations and what this is going to mean for our county.”
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Rob Moore covers North Mississippi for The Daily Memphian. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from The University of Memphis.
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