Former senior center director Graham continues to serve Aurora

Well known Auroran reflects on many changes under her leadership

  • Now living at East Park Villa, former senior center director Barbara Graham now helps the Aurora Police Department by sewing on police patches and repairing uniforms.
    Now living at East Park Villa, former senior center director Barbara Graham now helps the Aurora Police Department by sewing on police patches and repairing uniforms.
    For the past six years, 75-year-old Barbara (Friesen) Graham has been playing quite a sentimental role for the Aurora Police Department. Not only is she the mother of Police Chief Paul Graham, but she also serves as the department’s  seamstress, fixing police uniforms and sewing on departmental patches.“One day Paul came and said, ‘Hey, the lady who has been sewing our patches an...

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