Lifelong horse lover Opal Hagerty of Escondido didn't want to die without a final trail ride
When 95-year-old Opal Hagerty showed up last week for her horse-drawn carriage ride in Temecula, she was nattily dressed in a fringed suede jacket and a cowboy hat.
Hagerty is the latest recipient of the Dreams Do Come True program at Cypress Court Retirement Center in Escondido, where she has lived since 2011. Over the past five years, Cypress Court wellness director Judy Lucous has granted more than half a dozen residents’ wishes. Recipients, many of them in hospice care or disabled, have gone for bike rides, a hot-air balloon ride, a motorcycle ride, a boat trip and a shopping excursion.
Hagerty was born and raised in Long Beach, where she discovered her love of horses in junior high school when she took lessons in English saddle riding. Around the same time, she met her future husband, Don, a junior high classmate, but it would be some years before they were able to marry.After Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, he enlisted in the Navy and served in the submarine corps.
Mark Matson said he was touched by Hagerty’s story so he and his wife, Marika, wanted to make her wish come true.
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