Bluegrass Terrace Senior Living

Bluegrass Terrace Senior Living Explore the comfort of our family-owned facility, with spacious living areas and tailored care at a more affordable price.

Abundant life living to nurture your body and soul - contact us today! Bluegrass Terrace provides our clietns with care-free living. Each client has a private
room with a bath and walk-in closet, 3 home cooked meals, cleaning and laundry services. We
adminster thier medication, provide dishnetwork in each room and activities. We
have a wonderful staff that is onsite 24 hours. Our facility is protected with security
alarms and a sprinkler system.

12/15/2025

Ham and beans, and hot cornbread on the menu for this evening! What's your favorite beans?

Be sure to attend and participate in the town's festivities this evening.
12/12/2025

Be sure to attend and participate in the town's festivities this evening.

Our family-owned facility currently offers private rooms, providing a home-like environment with 24/7 care from our comp...
12/12/2025

Our family-owned facility currently offers private rooms, providing a home-like environment with 24/7 care from our compassionate staff. Contact us today to schedule a tour.

We're joyfully commemorating Betty Mae's 100th birthday in a month, and her radiant spirit is truly ageless!
12/12/2025

We're joyfully commemorating Betty Mae's 100th birthday in a month, and her radiant spirit is truly ageless!

In Memory of Louise Dusenbery6/26/24, doesn't seem that long ago until you realize it's 1924, not 2024, that you're spea...
12/02/2025

In Memory of Louise Dusenbery

6/26/24, doesn't seem that long ago until you realize it's 1924, not 2024, that you're speaking of. The year 1924 was when Macy's Department Store began the now-famous annual Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. But halfway across the country in Van Buren, Missouri, Roy and Edna Dusenbery and their two young sons were most likely adjusting to life with the new baby girl of the family, who would have been just six months old. That baby was Louise Dusenbery!

The Dusenbery family would eventually make their way to Jefferson City for Roy's work, and then, years later, when Louise was a young lady, they moved to Washington State to pursue the dream of being strawberry farmers. After a short time in Washington state with her parents and two brothers, Louise made her way back to Missouri alone, claiming the rain, cold, and lack of sunshine were not for her.

In her early years, Louise worked as a school teacher and then a telephone operator. She would build her own home with her own hands just off Westbrook Drive in Hartsburg, Missouri. Louise loved the outdoors and enjoyed the warmth of the sun shining onto her face.

In 2006, she moved to her home in Ashland on Amanda Drive. She remained active well into her late 90s. She served as president of the Ashland Garden Club and, I'm told, was a hoot to play pool with at the Ashland Seniors Center.

Full of wit and humor, having never married, Louise was a friend to many. She loved Pepsi and Oreo cookies, along with basically anything sweet. For the last several years, she made her home at Bluegrass Terrace Senior Living, where she was always the center of attention.

Having lived life to its fullest, our friend Louise passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, November 30th, 2025, at the age of 101 years, 5 months, and 4 days.

We're sad to learn of the passing of our friend Norma, who called Bluegrass Terrace home for several years. Our thoughts...
11/29/2025

We're sad to learn of the passing of our friend Norma, who called Bluegrass Terrace home for several years. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family in their time of grief. The following is copied from her daughter, Vickys Facebook post.

“My mom, Norma Crow, 86, passed away - appropriately, and perhaps poetically - on Black Friday, November 28, 2025. A woman who never met a sale she didn’t like, she chose the biggest shopping day of the year to make her graceful exit.

Born to Clyde and Alice in a tiny town in southern Illinois, Norma figured out early that small-town life was just too small for her big spirit. After surviving childhood tuberculosis, the loss of her father at 14, and ovarian tumors as a teenager, she set her sights on adventure. In her twenties, Norma skied, scuba-dived, lived it up in Florida and California, and danced to folk music and Ray Charles. She was extremely stylish, never short on invitations to date, but always fiercely independent.

She built an impressive career as an executive secretary at Cape Canaveral in Cocoa Beach, Florida, and later at Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California, spending her days amid rockets, engineers, and the early days of space history, all while looking like a star.

In 1964, Norma married George Crow, a widowed sailor with four small children (Michael, David, Marke, and Ruth). Not everyone would take on that kind of challenge, but Norma embraced mothering with grace, grit, and a sense of humor. It was a miracle when they welcomed their daughter, Vicki, considering George’s previous injuries and Norma’s fraction of a remaining o***y. Norma wasn’t a woman who accepted “no” from life.

She later found her professional calling in public relations, working tirelessly at St. Therese Hospital in Waukegan, Illinois, and St. Elizabeth’s in Belleville, Illinois, as a single mother, earning respect and admiration despite never having a college degree. She was living proof that competence, charm, and work ethic beat credentials any day.

Norma was an accomplished watercolor artist (with her work displayed at Columbia Art League), a DIY crafter before Pinterest made it cool, and a champion shopper who always found the best deals. Her homemade Halloween costumes were legendary. She adored her 13 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren (three great-great-grandchildren not yet born) and loved nothing more than baking, painting, and making glorious messes with them.

In retirement, Norma enjoyed life in Columbia, Missouri, where her beloved daughter Ruth and family cared for her with devotion as dementia quietly pulled her away from the world she had embraced so fiercely. Even as her memory faded, her sweetness remained.

Norma survived more medical crises than most people accumulate in three lifetimes - Type 1 diabetes as a young adult, countless complications, and a quadruple bypass at age 80. After that surgery, she wondered how she survived the heart attack that led to it. The answer is simple: so we could have more time with her, learn from her resilience, and give back a fraction of the love she poured into the world.

Hers was a life well and fully lived - brave, creative, generous, stubborn in all the right ways, and rich with love. She was a fighter, a survivor, an artist, a mother, and a friend to everyone she met.

And if there’s shopping and art or painting classes available in heaven, we’re sure she’s already teaching watercolor technique to her fellow angels and has found the best and most stylish bargains available.”

Our candy crew - not sure if they're eating the candy or giving it!
10/31/2025

Our candy crew - not sure if they're eating the candy or giving it!

Ralph the scarecrow has dressed up a few of our residents this evening! 🤗
10/31/2025

Ralph the scarecrow has dressed up a few of our residents this evening! 🤗

Happy Halloween!We enjoyed a group of morning visitors. This evening, stop by our main living area from 5:30-6:30 for ca...
10/31/2025

Happy Halloween!

We enjoyed a group of morning visitors. This evening, stop by our main living area from 5:30-6:30 for candy and say hello to Ralph, the scarecrow!

Embracing life's journey, one milestone at a time! At Bluegrass Terrace Senior Living, we're inspired by our residents' ...
10/03/2025

Embracing life's journey, one milestone at a time! At Bluegrass Terrace Senior Living, we're inspired by our residents' passion for living. Our friend Betty is on the countdown to a remarkable achievement: becoming our community's next centenarian in January.


Happy Fall ya’ll! Our buddy Ralph the scarecrow just rolled in this morning. Some folks are stoked and others are all li...
09/27/2025

Happy Fall ya’ll! Our buddy Ralph the scarecrow just rolled in this morning. Some folks are stoked and others are all like, meh! 🤣

We are seeking applicants for part-time evening positions and rotating day/evening weekend shifts at our family-owned se...
09/01/2025

We are seeking applicants for part-time evening positions and rotating day/evening weekend shifts at our family-owned senior living facility. A Level 1 Medication Certification is mandatory, although onsite training is provided. Key responsibilities include meal preparation, housekeeping, and medication distribution, among others.

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102 Redtail Drive
Ashland, MO
65010

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