Face Time with Patricia Delp

St. Charles resident Patricia Delp, 75, was at her store, Designers Desk Needlepoint Shop in Geneva, when she answered 11 questions for the Kane County Chronicle’s Brenda Schory.

Where did you grow up? Des Plaines and Park Ridge

Pets? A German shepherd named Copper and a Yorkie named Tickie

Who would play you in the movie of your life? Doris Day

As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A teacher. I taught third grade in Park Ridge. Then I went into business 30 years ago with Designers Desk Needlepoint Shop, 22 years in Bloomingdale and eight years here.

A book you'd recommend? "The Big Wave" by Pearl S. Buck

Favorite charity? The Kissing Pillow Project. We stitch pillows with a heart and give them to soldiers who are deployed and their families. It's a needlework charity.

Do you have children? Four

Do you speak another language? Spanish

Words of wisdom? Honesty is the best policy.

Favorite local restaurant? All of them

What is an interesting factoid about yourself? We have a ghost here, Miss Vere Cory, who was a piano teacher who played for presidents at the White House. I have not heard her playing piano, nor have I seen her ghost. The building is listed in Donna Latham's book, "Ghosts of the Fox River Valley." The building used to be the Kris Kringle Haus facing Third Street. I had it turned to face James Street.