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A Journey of Love and Resilience (January 2024)
South Hill Neighbors Magazine Cover Feature (March 2024)
On a seemingly ordinary morning in May 2006, Kimberly Anne Frechette, a celebrated sales champion in Spokane’s furniture industry, awoke to a perplexing ringing in her ears. What seemed like a minor annoyance on her 52nd birthday was, in fact, a harbinger of a life-altering storm brewing on the horizon
By Laura Smith-Johnson, January 1, 2024
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South Hill Neighbors Magazine Cover Feature (March 2024)
Kimberly & Leon Frechette Battle Against Frontotemporal Dementia
How can two individuals be running on parallel courses, being so close to each other, yet so far apart? Such is the case with Leon
and Kimberly, both born in 1954 — Leon in Springfield, MA, and Kimberly in Pittsburgh, PA.
By Laura Smith-Johnson with Leon A Frechette | Photos by Shay Carey Photography
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South Hill Neighbors Magazine Feature Follow Up (June 2024)
Kimberly’s Corner Website
Leon and Kimberly Frechette were featured in our March edition. Leon has been working to create a website to educate our community and provide resources to people caring for loved ones with dementia, as well as offering a place for donations to be made for Kimberly. We are so excited that their amazing website is now up and running and would love for you to check it out.
By Emmi Render | Photos by Shay Carey Photography
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Kimberly’s CaringBridge (March 2025)
Kimberly’s CaringBridge platform to share her disease
My wife Kimberly and I have been together for 40 years this August (2025), and sadly, she was diagnosed on 10/25/2022 with Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (BvFTD) and is now in Stage 2. Her life expectancy will be short as the disease runs its course. As I run the business as I have for the last 48 years, I care for my customers like you and my wife as a full-time unpaid spouse caregiver. So, my weeks are extended to 85 to 90 hours a week with very little sleep or support from family, friends, or the government!