Wearing pink terry cloth slippers instead of shoes

Tag : Men's Slippers

Rancher, judge, teacher, and mother: When Hallie Stillwell diedthis summer in her hundredth year, Texas lost its last link to theOld West.
by Helen Thorpe
HALLIE STILLWELL WAS WEARING a Western-style plaid blouse and adenim skirt when I went to see her last July, the kind of clothesshe had worn for years, and that made it easy to imagine she wasabout to get up and walk around. She was wearing pink terry cloth slippers instead of shoes, though, and she was sitting back withher legs up on a wheeled bed, and it had been a long time since shehad walked on her own. I was visiting her at the nursing home whereshe lived out the last ten months of her life, a brick building ona hill in Alpine. Stillwell was 99 when she died, on August 18. Inthe weeks before my visit she had retreated into an interior world.She rarely spoke anymore, even to family members, and she hadnothing at all to say to me.