Thank you Nuvolari! I stand corrected. This is an excellent article too. Mrs. Dermond's friends spoke very highly of her and gave a little insight to what Mrs. Dermond was like.
"Dermond had been playing bridge locally since she and her husband built a retirement home at the Great Waters development a dozen or so miles northeast of town in 1999.
O'Neill spoke fondly of Dermond's needlepoint work, one with an angel in particular. "It had pearls and crystals. Just gorgeous."
Dermond sometimes took homemade chocolate cakes to the Tuesday and Thursday bridge games.
She and other members on occasion traded books. More often, though, they talked about their families and enjoyed one another's company.
"She had a great laugh," member Carole Stickline said, "a great sense of humor."
One friend said
Dermond, who'd had knee-replacement surgery, enjoyed dancing.
*******, another member, described the Dermonds as "the perfect retired couple. ... So sweet."
*******,
who lives in a lakefront home near the Dermonds, carpooled to bridge meetings with Shirley Dermond.
Since Dermond vanished, she said, "A lot of people have fear. But we've never had anything on the lake. Ever. And we've been here 22 years. ... It is hard to believe that something like this could happen. Especially to Shirley and Russell Dermond, who were cream-of-the-crop people."
*** met Dermond about a decade and a half ago when they were part of another bridge club.
Dermond, she said, has a grandson at the University of North Carolina, which ***** granddaughter attends.
***** said Dermond's family meant the most to Dermond.
"She talked a lot about her daughter and her daughter's horses."
Russell Dermond, she said, was as kindhearted as his wife.
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