Nebraska nursing home resident forms Taylor Swift fan club, hopes to meet pop superstar
Sep 24, 2025
A Nebraska nursing home just became one of the newest Taylor Swift fan clubs, led by a 95-year-old shaking off the challenges of growing old.
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You have to remember I'm 95. I've met a lot of people. They're all good people
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But he still would like to meet one more. To say 95-year-old Frank Urias is a character
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is an understatement. More like he's the life of the party at Remington Heights Retirement
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Community in Omaha, Nebraska. My goal is to make sure that we are bound together
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and love each other because we have such a short time ahead of us
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About a month ago, he and Remington Heights occupational therapist Sarah Zyke were chatting about music
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Sarah, a devoted Taylor Swift fan or Swifty, told Frank about her love of Swift songs and attending her concerts
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It all started with the conversation. I was just excited about the new album
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And so I was having him memorize when the album was gonna come out so we could have a listening party
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Then he started bringing me little articles and Anytime Taylor was in the newspaper and then one day he surprised me with these buttons and Every in the community wanted the buttons and then it just kind of taken off from there Now it a movement Frank started listening to Taylor Swift music
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reading about her history and rise to fame, and comparing notes with Sarah
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They decided to write a card to the pop star, and it did not stop there
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It's no longer just the two of you, now you have a whole fan club
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Yes, we have a fan club and we have tried to keep it to a limited amount of people, but that's very hard to do
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And this is what it has become. On a Friday morning, Frank shares a meeting of the Taylor Swift Fan Club
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At least two dozen senior residents, most dressed in orange in anticipation of Swift's new album, The Life of a Showgirl, with buttons that say, I heart Taylor
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chat about the number one item on their agenda, inviting the pop superstar to the nursing home
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and what it's going to take to get her here. The bingo offer is an open invitation
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Come play bingo Taylor The Taylor Swift theme is everywhere at Remington Heights including a makeshift tour bus near the front desk Frank is at the center of it all His wife of 70 years died six years ago
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The loss still hurts, but all the hoopla surrounding Taylor Swift has helped fill the void
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It's hard to explain the feelings you have for people because each one of us is different and we love each other and we're constantly doing things for
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each other. Activities director Becky Schindler has been here for nearly two decades. There's just
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so much positivity, the energy that everybody has lots of energy when they come to the dining room
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come to our activities. Anytime in the building, it's just hopping around here and we see all of
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the Taylor Swift buttons and a lot of orange in our building
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Seeing that Taylor Swift is engaged to Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelsey
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you might think Frank is just a little bit envious. The truth is he not In fact he a diehard Kansas City Chiefs fan and he got a story behind that too Maybe a year maybe a little longer Travis was running with the ball
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I'm sitting in my chair, and he's trying to get into the end zone
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So I give him a shove. I end up on the floor
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My therapist is still working on my shoulder. Oh, my gosh. You could say Frank had to shake it off when it came to that injury
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And if Taylor Swift ever did walk through these doors at this retirement home in eastern Nebraska
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What would you say to Taylor Swift if she walked through that door and came to the Remington Heights to meet you
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What would you say? Have you thought about it? No, I haven't. Okay. But, I would..
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You never know. If it didn't bother Kelsey, I'd give her a hug
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We love you, Taylor. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Craig DeGrelli
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