"Granny" Likes To Stay Busy

(Charleston)  . What else is a woman of 94 to do?  "Sometimes it's 4 o'clock in the morning and I'm up sewing," Grovetta Roberts said from her home in Charleston's Orchard Manor housing complex. "It gives me something to do."  Roberts, known to many in the West Side complex as "Granny," moved to Orchard Manor from Ohio about a year ago. In Ohio, she made and decorated ceramics to keep busy.  Once in West Virginia, friends and staff at Orchard Manor wanted to find something she could do to help occupy her time. Through the United Way, they found a program for seniors to make fabric trauma dolls for use in local hospitals.  Children can use the dolls to explain to doctors where something hurts, or the dolls can be used if people suspect a child has been sexually abused. Doctors and nurses also can draw stitches or bandages on the dolls to help explain how they plan to treat a child, and kids can draw their own faces and other features on the plain white fabric dolls.