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Today's Poll!Faith inspires woman to learn to read
Luvenia Washington reads a passage from her Bible at home. With the help of ABLE in Jefferson City, Luvenia learned to read so she could read religious writings. Photo by Julie Smith.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Words of Psalms 23 drifted through a living room on Knipp Drive. Ninety-three-year-old Luvenia Washington sat on a blue couch, a Bible open on her lap.
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,” Washington read aloud. When she finished, Marcia Ramatowski, sitting on a couch across the room, wiped tears from her eyes.
“Thank you for giving me back a little bit of my momma today,” Ramatowski said to Washington.
Washington learned to read in her 80s for the sole purpose of reading The Bible. She was a student at the Adult Basic Literacy Education Learning Center, ABLE, which Ramatowski’s mother, Amie Morrow, founded in 1985.
Morrow passed away in June 2010, but her legacy lives on through ABLE.
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Comments
spelchek 7 months ago
The left leaning posters ain't gonna like this.
eileen10 7 months ago
This is great! How happy and proud Ms. Washington must have felt as she started to put letters together to form words. Her joy is visible on her face. It does a heart good to read something like this.
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