Mom is 97 just getting by each day now. Still walking with a walker by herself.

My wife's grandma died at 101, her daughter my mother-in-law is 98. Lots of longevity on my wife's side of the family. On my side not nearly as much, especially the men. Two members of our local retired educators association were given a party at our event as one is a 100 and the other was 101 and just passed away a month ago.

Bryce

Clarence Blakney, 103 when he passed...WW1 Vet, got gassed, shot, and came home a walking skeleton....Must have just made him tougher.

I've know a few people that made it to 100 plus. I just had an on old teacher from HS that passed away the 24th and she was 3 days short of being 100. A great lady and know her and stayed in touch with her through the years. My folks were good friends with them.

One of my grandfathers lived to be 94. Both of my grandmothers were 99 when they passed

A farmer from my church mom passed away last year at 104 I believe

My grandmother died two years ago at 105. She always enjoyed talking about seeing and touching the first airplane that came to town when she was a young child.

A lady at our church is 103 and still drives.

Had a grandfather that was born 2-8-82 he always said, that is 1882 feb 8th. One of my mom statements that I will never forget is that she would race car up the hill by her house and she was very depressed one day when a car finally went up faster than she did, she said she thinks she was about 9 years old then. and don't forget Queenie of England, she must be 95ish I think,, she weathered through WW II. When I was a kid in the late 40's two old ladies lived in the civil war museum building, a very small place. They said that they were my age in the civil war so they were up there too. I would love to have known the age of some of those old folks overseas in southeast Asia that I saw.....jk

My maternal side - My grandfather died at 89, he welded (what we now call brazing, it was welding with a blow torch then) steel slabs together in a steel mill with no thought of resportority repercussions. Smoked filterless Kool cigarettes (how many of you remember them?) till he was 85. My grandmother lived to 105 & kept her very sharp mind to about 104 1/2. My paternal side - grandfather died at 31, grandmother at 62. I smoke, drink & chase woman ( ok, only my wife of 44 years but she's really fast) and am betting I'll live to be ...... tomorrow. If I lose the bet, sue my estate.

As a child, I knew a couple of guys who were WW1 veterans but I didn't get to know them well.
I got to know quite a number of WW2 veterans through the VFW. I used to wash dishes at our VFW with a Navy diver who was at Pearl Harbor. Among the oldest that I now see regularly are a couple of other old Navy men. One was on the Pennsylvania where he got to know Johnny Carson before he was famous and another who was on the Enterprise in the last few months of the war.
My Grandmother Hester Schwartz had many interesting stories to tell. She drove her dad's wagon from Nebraska to Wisconsin when she was about 14 right after the turn of the century. She later taught at the first integrated school in Wisconsin (although it was after the time of integration) .

My grandmother was 100 when she passed and my only living aunt is now 100 as well.

Growing up in the '50s I knew lots of folks born in the 1800s All four grandparents born between 1865-1886, although Mom's dad died a month before I was born, all four of Mom's siblings born in the 1800s and all my great uncles and aunts over 15 of them with out counting, some died when I was young and memories blend with stories, lots of neighbors fit the 1800s thing too. Mom & Dad born in the 1910s. Many of those folks lived into their 90s I can't recall all of them exactly, one was 102, but I can't recall who right now. Mom died at 94 and was still living on her own.

There was a lady from the little company town I grew up in . Her and her husband owned the little general store. He past away at 88 about 25 years ago she still lived in the house til she was 100 when she fell and broke her hip and had to go to a home. She healed and lived there til she died 2 years ago at 107. The Docs. use to tell her that she didn't need the flu shot cause as a little girl she contracted the Spanish Flu and survived so she had immunity from the flu.

My grandmother was born on the dirt in western Minnesota in 1888. In the early eighties I would sit and talk with her in her home and listen to her stories. She was sharp as a tick mentally. Some nights the news would be on the tv showing shuttle launches. She went from a time when automobiles were unknown to watching people walk on the moon and go to space and back on the shuttle.
The beautiful Mohican who chases me around every now and again had a grandmother who went to 104. Again to the day she passed she was incredibly smart.

Osky

My grandfather (dads dad) was 100 yrs and 2 days old when he died.
My mom's mom died at 96. Her sisters all lived to be between 94-98.
Had a little lady at the home my MIL is in come up and tell me it was her birthday 2 years ago. She was 103. Every time I go out there she comes wheeling over and calls me her lover. She's now 105 and still going. She's a naughty little lady. She tells me all the time she wished she was 50 years younger. Says she'd teach me what a real woman was like between the sheets.
She's a scream though. She'll come over grab my hand and won't let go until I give her a kiss on the cheek. Then she giggles and falls asleep..... Story of my life.

My mother 101

my great grand mother was 102 , we believe , she die in the 60's , she was married 5 times put them all in the grave , what that woman must have seen in her time

Got an old friend I dove with is in nursing home now is 93..


Mac

Had an aunt that was 100, my mother made it to 91.