August 2024

a wooden bridge over a stream with a house in the background

From 1950s Staff to Future Residents: The Early Pioneers of CKV

The fathers of both Esther and Opal encouraged their daughters to consider working at the new Brethren Home in Cross Keys. “I was here for about a week before any of the patients came,” Esther said. Her father, Rev. Henry Miller, had been appointed by the Church of the Brethren district to supervise the hotel’s conversion into a nursing home. “I didn’t know whether I was going to stay,” she recalls, “but in the end I did.” ... Read More