‘She’s not going to just sit down and rust out’

Cloteal Felder, 91, with her “favorite” child, Gloria Criswell.

“She worked for many years taking care of children and cleaning house. Now she sits on the porch and sneaks out back to cut her grass with scissors because the lawnmower didn’t do a good enough job.

“She doesn’t want you to wash her clothes for her. If you make her bed, she makes it over. When we’re not looking, she jumps up and tries to do stuff and hide it. We’ll come back and see that all the trash is picked up and she’ll say, ‘I didn’t do that.’ We’ll say, ‘There’s nobody else here, who did it then?’ And she’ll say, ‘I don’t know.’

“She says she’s not going to just sit down and rust out, so we need to let her do her thing.”

— Gloria Criswell