When she was a little girl, 81-year-old Peggy McCallie had baby dolls with molded plastic hair. Today’s dolls, by comparison, have synthetic mops of locks.
“I always got a new doll for Christmas,” said McCallie, a retired Birchwood School secretary. “I kept most of them until I wore them out.
Peggy McCallie, 81, a resident of Morning Point Assisted Living Residence in Ooltewah, grooms a doll for resale at the Samaritan Center. “My hands are crippled up with arthritis now, so this really helps me keep them loose,” she said, trying to coax the blonde hair on a Barbie-style doll to stay in place.
Try as she might, though, the hair seemed to have a life of its own, popping back up and arraying at odd angles. Bad hair day, one supposes.
McCallie, a resident of Morning Pointe Greenbriar Cove Assisted Living Residence in Ooltewah, is part of the “Doll Squad,” a loyal circle of seniors there who refurbish dolls for the Samaritan Center.