Man nearing 100 still as handy as ever
With a red ribbon in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other, a 97-year-old man on Sunday cut the ribbon attached to a brand new ramp he built for his wife at their home.
Harold Larrick labored over the ramp during the past two weeks. His wife, Janice, 96, had recent health problems requiring EMT assistance. Both agreed the process of getting her out of the home was troublesome.
“We needed some way of getting her out of here in a wheelchair,” Harold said.
He said he first looked into buying a ramp. However, as he browsed designs, he realized that his lifelong personal experiences as well as his professional history were helping him generate ideas of his own for a project. He pulled out his well-used tools and moved forward on his own.
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