Resident’s restoration of Passavant gate brings flood of memories
Randy Hart, city planner and Zelienople Historical Society member, stands at the entrance of the renovated Lutheran SeniorLife Passavant Community sign. Hart oversaw renovations of the site from Sept. 20 through 22. Submitted photo
Gateway to Memory
Randy Hart’s whole family shares some kind of connection with the stone gate outside Lutheran SeniorLife’s Passavant Community, which stands on the grounds of an elder care home initially built in 1905.
His father spent the last years of his life at that site. His wife, Cynthia Hart, now a retired nurse, worked there as a teenager, and his mother volunteered there. His grandson works in the cafeteria there.
Randy Hart himself used to play as a child in fields now occupied by the present-day community’s buildings, having grown up across the street.
But it was the Harts who bought the plaque on the gateway’s entrance at a personal cost of $850.
