After an absence of nearly 30 years, Norma Hoehler is returning home to Bowling Green and spent Saturday celebrating the fact with parts of three other generations of her family.
Hoehler was at The Medical Center Women’s Center Mother-Daughter Tea with family, as were many of the other women and young ladies. More than 90 turned out for the annual event, which has been going on for about two decades.
“I just received the most wonderful Mother’s Day present,” Hoehler exclaimed. “I’m moving back to Bowling Green and they landscaped my patio for me.”
Hoehler is moving to Bowling Green Retirement Village, where her daughter, Vickie Jennett, is executive director.
“I’ve got a lot of catching up to do,” Hoehler said.
So Saturday’s event was a good time to start, at least with her daughter, her daughter’s daughter, Angie Wilk, and her daughter’s granddaughter, Morgan Wilk, all from Portland, Tenn.
The event turned out to be multigenerational for many families.
Guyla Wilson of Bowling Green was there with three other generations of her family from Bowling Green, 12 in all.
Wilson said she’s been coming so many times to the tea that she has lost track.
Her daughter, Carolyn Lindsey, said they missed the last few years and are happy to be back.
Lindsey’s granddaughter, Stephanie Riley, shares her love of tea, so the two were eager to drink the sweet concoction poured from one of the teapots on the table.
The pots were part of the collection of Linda Rush, director of community wellness for The Medical Center.
“I think I have 20 or 25 teapots,” she said. “You know once someone finds out you collect something, they tend to give that to you.”
But that doesn’t bother Rush.
“I love them,” she said.
While she no longer adds to her own collection, to satisfy her teapot craving, Rush buys them for others as gifts.
Three-year-old Emma Trinh eagerly ate one of the cupcakes prepared by Sweet Treats.
Hoehler and her daughter purchased the two books for sale by author Virginia Davis of Hart County.
Davis gave a brief talk about how her imagination as a child and voracious appetite for reading got her interested in writing. She now has two children’s books for sale, “The Flowers on Apple Hill” and “Irises’ Secret,” at virginiadavisbooks.com.
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