Senior voters at Juliette Fowler Communities recall their first time voting

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“That was just yesterday it seems,” Beth Winterbauer said looking at a collection of photos, many of them black and white. “I’m 94. I’ll be 95 the day after Christmas.”

Winterbauer voted for the first time in 1952 when Democrat Adlai Stevenson and Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower were on the ballot.

“My father always encouraged us to vote,” Winterbauer said. “He didn’t tell us how, but we were to be intelligent enough to find out what was said, and then make a decision based on that.”…

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