Gone but not forgotten

Barbara Serage around the time she went to live at The Fairfax. Courtesy Photo Seventeen years ago, Barbara Serage moved into The Fairfax, a continuing care retirement community near Fort Belvoir. Serage, who will celebrate her 100th birthday the day after Christmas, was impressed by the people she met there. “They have this newsletter that comes out, I guess, every week. And they always had the bios of the people who had passed away. My mom is one who would read it. She was struck by how the lives of these people were so important,” said Barbara Langridge, Serage’s daughter. “She said, ‘I thought people at the Fairfax, people living there, had information that the people of the United States should hear.’” Serage decided to take action. Reinvention was nothing new to her.

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