Lake Forest Place Neighbors Reunited for 3rd Time

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In a smaller village or town, it’s not uncommon to run into your former neighbor later in life. But how often can someone refer to someone as a neighbor more than once, let alone three times?

That’s the story behind longtime North Shore residents Shirley Flood Crandall, 89 and Pat Galitz Kramer, 88 as told by the Lake Forester.

The two are both current residents at Lake Forest Place, but their neighborly story goes back a bit further than most who reside at the independent senior living facility.

The two began their friendship living in the same dormitory (Lois Hall) at Lake Forest College in World War II. They became neighbors a second time in the 1960s in Riverwoods before reuniting at Lake Forest Place.

Both recall stories about how during World War II there were only 12 men on campus as war was breaking out on two fronts and how they reformed their friendship in Riverwoods when they first realized the two had adjoining back yards.

“That Riverwoods property line became a symbolic bridge for the two, who regularly played bridge and had coffee on Saturday mornings,” the Lake Forester writes.

Now, at Lake Forest Place, “both can see each other’s windows and know when the other person is up at night because her light is on.”

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