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Archive for February 4th, 2010

Pictured: Mary Lou Fife with Maddie Schultzman, Mary Catherine Huffines, Judy Fife Mead, and Lou Ann Raetz

To reach the age of one hundred years is an amazing achievement.  We ate lunch with ten of these friends. That was pretty great!

Not only was our time entertaining, we learned some interesting things as well. One woman, who is one hundred and four, came to Texas in a covered wagon. She said it was a more reliable form of transportation back then and was easier to drive than a car.  She was driving her own car until she was ninety-nine and was traveling to Brazil and the Philippines four times in that same decade.

We enjoyed visiting with two men who were both from Ohio, both had graduated from University of Illinois, Urbana and graduated from there just two months apart, one in 1928 and one in 1930. Although they didn’t know each other previously, they made plans to get together again for dinner before the luncheon had ended. Those of us privileged to share this day with them knew that we were very blessed. Keep your eyes open in Dallas for more information and some wonderful photos in the Park Cities News.

I thought about what one hundred years of age means and I realized that most importantly, I am only half-way through my journey. From some of the discussions I overheard, the next half has a lot of surprises and a lot of love, too.

Thank you for reading these notes

From,

Nancy