Susie Gaffney guides her 2016 Toyota Avalon through the subdivision’s twisting streets. Memories come flooding back to her and to the man next to her, Jim, her husband of 47 years.
It is a cold, damp February morning, and the Gaffneys are on a car tour of Florissant’s Wedgewood subdivision, an enclave of tidy yards and one-story ranch houses. Wedgewood is where Jim grew up. It’s also where, early in their marriage, the Gaffneys bought a house so he could be close to his parents. This is where they began raising their family.
Coldwater Creek snakes through Wedgewood, hugging the subdivision’s contours on its meandering 14-mile journey northeast from St. Louis Lambert International Airport to the Missouri River…