The two met in the 1980s while playing in a golf tournament at the country club they belonged to near San Francisco. During the round, they discovered a mutual appreciation for music. Barb grew up playing the piano and singing solos. Jackie was raised in a family of harmonizers. “We began getting together to sing songs we grew up on, and would cry to favorites like, ‘Let There Be Peace on Earth,’” said Jackie.

In their 30s, the friends would joke about who was going to push whose wheelchair around. “We never really thought that would happen,” Jackie laughed.

Nearly 30 years later, the women and their husbands live on opposite corners of the same floor at Vi at Silverstone, in north Scottsdale, Arizona.

Growing Friendships
As the ladies’ friendship blossomed, they decided to introduce their partners. Jackie’s husband, Fred Badger, was a naval academy graduate. Barb’s male friend at the time (and future husband), Ed Faber, had been in the U.S. Marine Corps. The two men easily bonded over their years in the service.

Over the years, each couple built lives and careers that moved them apart from one another to various places around the country – but the two couples always managed to stay in touch. In 1990, the Faber’s decided to move to Arizona. Jackie and Fred soon followed, staying with the Faber’s while they built a house in the mountains.

Moving to Vi