CELEBRATING HIS 104th birthday today is Resthaven Lodge

resident Edmund Beauchamp. He has lived at the Sidney

lodge since September 1988.

Centennial plus four is
marked by local resident

by Valorie Lennox
The Review

There is celebration in reaching
104 years — but there is also
sadness.

“Nobody will miss me,” says
Edmund Beauchamp, who cele-
brates his 104th birthday today in
Resthaven Lodge.

“All my people, I’ve lost all my
people. I’m just left alone.”

In addition to the staff at the
care home, he relies on Zelda
Yousen of Sooke, who began visit-
ing Beauchamp 14 years ago.

At the time, Beauchamp lived in
his own home in Langford, near
the bank where Yousen worked.

She began helping him under-
stand some financial papers and
then started helping him with
shopping and dropping by for
visits.

Since Beauchamp has moved
into the Resthaven Lodge, Yousen

has continued to visit three times a -

week.

“He doesn’t really have anyone
else,” she says, noting that Beau-
champ has outlived two wives.

Although Beauchamp’s hearing
is poor, he still sees without
glasses and is generally very lucid,
Yousen said.

“He does so well for someone
that age.”

Beauchamp lived in his own
home until he was almost 101
years old, when a fall resulted in a
cracked bone in his hip.

It was the third time Beauchamp
had broken bones after falling,
Yousen explained. Beauchamp
complained of dizziness which led
to the falls.

At that point, Beauchamp’s doc-

tor said the man could no longer
live alone.

A Seventh Day Adventist and
vegetarian, Beauchamp moved
into the Adventist operated
Resthaven Lodge in September
1988.

But he still maintains as much
independence as possible.

“He keeps saying, as soon as
I’m not dizzy any mote, I’m going
home,” Yousen said.

“He’s just phenomenal.”

Beauchamp is still able to walk
with the aid of a walker and often
tries to move around his room
without the walker.

“He hates to think he’s depen-
dent on anything,” Yousen said.

Beauchamp also refuses extra
help from the lodge staff and often
helps less able residents.

Born Nov. 27, 1887 in Montreal,
he recalls having a happy child-
hood. “My mother and father, they
were good people.”

He left home at 15 and he
apprenticed as a barber, a career he
followed most of his working life.

He has lived throughout Can-
ada, in the United States and in
Bermuda, almost always support-
ing himself and his wife through
barber shops.

“T was a hobo barber,” he jokes.
“T never had children. I was mov-
ing too much.”

However he likes children and
especially enjoys visits by children
to the Lodge.

A strong believer in God, he
feels God has a reason for keeping
him alive over the past 104 years.

However, he admits at times it is
difficult to have lived so long.

“There’s lots of things I do that
nobody else can do. I’m separ-
ated.”

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