During her 25 years of baby-sitting, Edie Rokus, 88, has been referred to as Loudoun County's Baby Sitter or The Hamilton Baby Sitter.

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Edie Rokus, 88, has been referred to as Loudoun County's Baby Sitter or The Hamilton Baby Sitter, a name given to her after baby-sitting for 25 years in the Hamilton area. Today, three years after having a small stroke that curtailed her labor of love, she lives in Purcellville and keeps in touch with many of her former "children" and their families.

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Edie Rokus, 88, reminices over photographs of many of her "children," former clients during her 25 years of baby-sitting in Loudoun County.

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Edie Rokus, 88, of Purcellville sifts through photographs of many of her "children" she cared for during her 25-year career as a baby sitter in Loudoun County. Rokus, known as the Hamilton Baby Sitter, cared for many of the children in the photographs for most of their adolescent life.

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During her 25 years of baby-sitting, Edie Rokus, 88, has been referred to as Loudoun County's Baby Sitter or The Hamilton Baby Sitter. Today, three years after having a small stroke that curtailed her labor of love, she lives in Purcellville.

Photo: Bill Snead, LoudounExtra.com

Edie Rokus looks at photographs of her "children" she cared for as Hamilton's Baby Sitter during the 25 years she watched children in the Loudoun area.

Photo: Bill Snead, LoudounExtra.com

During her 25 years of baby-sitting, Edie Rokus, 88, has been referred to as Loudoun County's Baby Sitter or The Hamilton Baby Sitter. That's because she touched the lives of so many children, parents and grandparents during the years she cared for children.

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A photograph among those in Edie Rokus' collection of children she used to baby-sit for.

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A photograph among those in Edie Rokus' collection of children she used to baby-sit for. Rokus was taken on vacations with families to care for the children.

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A photograph among those in Edie Rokus' collection of children she used to baby-sit for. Here, some of Rokus's "children" pose at Halloween in their costumes.

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Edie in the red sweater, became part of many of the families she would baby-sit for.

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Kara and Garrett Swankowski on a toy tractor when their baby sitter was Edie Rokus. Today, Kara is 17.

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A photograph among those in Edie Rokus' collection of children she used to baby-sit for. Edie is at the far left at a birthday celebration for one of her "children" she cared for during her 25 year career as a baby sitter.

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A photograph among those in Edie Rokus' collection of children she used to baby-sit for.

Photo: Bill Snead, LoudounExtra.com

A photograph among those in Edie Rokus' collection of children she used to baby-sit for.

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A photograph among those in Edie Rokus' collection of children she used to baby-sit for.

Photo: Bill Snead, LoudounExtra.com

Lou Ritchie, left, was the first child Edie baby-sat for when her family lived in Round Hill. They now live in Harrisonburg. "I cried for a month after they left," Edie remembered.

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Edie with Ryan Foster, who is now 20 years old and in college. She began caring for Ryan when he was six weeks old. Today they're best friends.

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A photograph among those in Edie Rokus' collection of children she used to baby-sit for. Rokus was asked by many of the families she baby-sat for to join them for holiday celebrations and birthdays.

Photo: Bill Snead, LoudounExtra.com

A photograph among those in Edie Rokus' collection of children she used to baby-sit for.

Photo: Bill Snead, LoudounExtra.com