Marketing Director Sarah Marr is one of the first faces you see when considering Ardenwoods Retirement Community. Sometimes she gives presentations to large groups.
Kari Schrader: Community Life Services Director
Meet Kari Schrader, Ardenwoods Community Life Services Director. That’s a particularly fancy way of saying Fairy Godmother. Look closely and you may get to see her magic.
She’s modest, calls herself a farm girl at heart from a long tradition of midwestern caretakers. Where in the world is Abingdon, IL? It’s a long way from Asheville, but Kari fell in love with the south while backpacking as a teenager. She chose Toccoa Falls College, a small college in northeast Georgia where she received her BA in Interpersonal and Organizational Communications. Has there EVER been a major so suited to an individual?!
Felicia Kimzey – Ardenwoods Wellness Navigator
She was only 16 when she came to Ardenwoods to wait tables for a summer. That was 13 years ago! Today residents and families know Felicia as the Wellness Navigator on Speed Dial.
Felicia moved to Mills River from Hickory when she was 13. We can definitely call her a local. She loved that job she took as a 16 year-old so much that she decided to work weekends until she went off to college. Then, she decided to come back from college on the weekends.