MSW News: Daughter puts face to name for Heritage Springs Memory Care resident

Lynn Fiedler held up a framed photograph of her mother: A woman named Alice Longenberger surrounded by four young girls.

The photograph in a gray border shows a seated Alice on her 90th birthday with her great-granddaughters, all wearing matching dresses with black butterfly patterns. One girl is holding the ribbons of a balloon floating out of frame. Only Alice and the oldest girl are looking at the camera. Alice — with her short white hair — is smiling.

“It’s very important to put a face to a name,” said Fiedler, of Selinsgrove. “In this situation especially, I think it’s important for people to know who my mother is and who these other victims are.”

Alice, a 94-year-old patient with dementia at Heritage Springs Memory Care in Lewisburg, is one of 17 residents who are victims of extensive elder abuse from two teen employees at the assisted living facility at 327 Farley Circle, Lewisburg, according to court documents filed by Buffalo Valley Regional Police.

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