BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — About 6 months ago, Millie Beach moved into a Beaverton retirement home and decided right then she wanted to do something special to give veterans who live there a warm feeling, inside and out.
Millie, who’s 83, has been sewing since she was 3. “I’ve always sewed and I said I’d never quilt. That was the last thing I wanted to do was quilt.”
Clothing was her passion, not quilting.
A Quilt of Valor made by Millie Beach and a team of volunteers to give to the veterans at Holiday Retirement’s Edgewood Downs in Beaverton, November 9, 2017 (KOIN)
“Well, when I was young it was just doing it by hand and putting all these little squares together,” she told KOIN 6 News. “I didn’t want to do that.”
But that all changed after a visit to Montavilla Sewing Center.
“And one of the gals that was doing one of the classes was doing the Quilts of Valor. ‘Millie, I want you to get involved with this,’” she said. “So I did and it’s just been the best thing I’ve ever done.”
A Wall of Honor for the veterans at Holiday Retirement’s Edgewood Downs in Beaverton, November 9, 2017 (KOIN)
The Quilts of Valor Foundation is a national non-profit with volunteers across the country. Their mission is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing quilts.
Millie got choked up talking about how much these Quilts of Valor mean to her. “I can
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