Thursday, July 19, 2018

Sorority grants dying man's wish

Paul Sonnier, 92, served in WWII and was in the attack at Pearl Harbor. Recently he's lived at SouthernCare Hospice Services in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. That's where he met a social work intern named Jessica Moreau. He always told her that someday he'd teach her to jitterbug. Then, during one of her visits, he said he wished he could have "one last dance with a beautiful woman" before he died.


Moreau and her Phi Mu sorority sisters at the University of Souther Mississippi made his wish come true. "We had such a great time dancing, singing and eating lemon cookies with him," said a Phi Mu Facebook post. Sonnier could not actually get up and dance, but he was delighted to hold the students' hands as they boogied. His granddaughter said, "All these pretty women get to come around him. He gets to hand out flowers and just be himself. He hasn't been himself for a while. Now he's super happy."

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