Three local centenarians living at Seashore Highlands Retirement Home - WXXV News 25

They came from antithetic walks of life, a homemaker, a concern owner, and a bookkeeper, but 3 women surviving astatine Seashore Highlands Retirement Community are bonded by 100 years of surviving and sassy senses of humor.

“I ne'er deliberation astir being 100. I ne'er deliberation astir being 100 until idiosyncratic mentions it. They request to discontinue harping connected our age, don’t you think?”

The saying ‘you’re lone arsenic aged arsenic you feel’ could not beryllium much close to picture these 3 charming centenarians.

A period ago, galore radical didn’t person cars, World War II laic years successful the future, and it wasn’t communal for radical to person energy successful their homes.

Technology has genuinely developed implicit the past 100 years, but Ms. Cleo has kept up with the hep caller trends and adjacent enjoys spending clip connected her laptop. “Sometimes I propulsion my hairsbreadth erstwhile I’m trying to usage it. I bask it. I privation that these method things had travel on earlier and I could’ve learned them easier. Now the small kids conscionable play connected them and archer you however to tally them.”

Developing immoderate caller skills, but besides keeping the aforesaid ones, Ms. Lois was the CEO of Maybelle Dress Manufacturing Company and present she uses her talents to marque bibs for residents who unrecorded with her astatine the Seashore Highlands Retirement Community. “You tin marque a bully bib successful 20 minutes. Because you know, there’s thing to it.”

Of course, immoderate struggles travel arsenic you deed the 100-year mark, but that doesn’t halt them, particularly erstwhile Ms. Bobbie, who has mislaid the bulk of her sight, tries to play bingo. “I’ve memorized my card, and I cognize wherever they are nether the B’S.. I-N-G-O. I don’t ever cognize erstwhile I person bingo, but Lois volition archer me.”

When asked astir beingness advice, they went connected astir eating healthy, exercising, and not worrying astir the small things. Ms. Lois adjacent went into item connected however she managed a agelong life. “I’ve ne'er said a cuss word, and I’ve ne'er been nasty. I’ve ne'er drank alcohol. I’ve had 1 small swallow 1 clip and I passed out, and that was my opening and ending of alcohol. Tell everybody that’s the opening and ending!”

All jokes aside, these 3 confederate belles are surviving beingness to the fullest and could not accidental capable large things astir the Seashore assemblage and the feelings are communal with the staff. Seashore Highlands Executive Director Jennifer Persechino said, “They’re fabulous. They marque each time fun. They’re precise sassy, and they marque beingness enjoyable for everybody astir them. They invited each the caller elders that we person that travel successful and unrecorded here.”