Draft:Western Home

Review waiting, please be patient. This may take 3 months or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 2,721 pending submissions waiting for review. If the submission is accepted, then this page will be moved into the article space. If the submission is declined, then the reason will be posted here. In the meantime, you can continue to improve this submission by editing normally. Where to get help If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews. If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed. How to improve a draft Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia. Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article. Improving your odds of a speedy review To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags. Add tags to your draft Editor resources Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs Reviewer tools Instructions · What links here · Western Home (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Bing, Wikipedia) · Submitted 32 days ago by Orangecosmos (talk: D · +) · Last edited 0 seconds ago

• Comment: Error: There was no comment detected! Please follow the instructions at Template:AfC comment.

The Western Old People's Home had their groundbreaking on August 21, 1911,^[1] in Cedar Falls, Iowa. They opened with the help of the Evangelical Association, in partnership with the Pfeiffer family^[2] of Cedar Falls. However, they officially opened June 18, 1912, accepting 2 members^[3] with the dedication ceremony taking place on September 20, 1912.^[1] Since 1903, the Evangelical Association attempted to find a Home for church members in the denomination's western states. Board members looked and rejected 9 different states including places in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois until the Pfeiffer Family helped.[1] The name was changed to Western Home in August/September of 1955.^[4] Then, the continued to have another name change of Western Home Communities in 2001.^[1]

In the Summer of 1937, the Kendal Christian Women's Home from Nashua, Iowa had proposed a merging with Western Old People's Home through their attorney as they had too few members that they couldn't successfully continue. After some meetings with their Attorney, the Executive Committee voted for the merger, resulting in two women from the Kendal Home coming to Western Home along with assets being turned over. These assets included approximately $40,000.^[5] A Kendall Trust was also made.^[6]