She has lived through 21 presidents, two World Wars, and two Chicago Cubs World Series Championships!
LAKE CITY, Iowa – An Iowa woman celebrated her 115th birthday Monday, making her now the oldest person in the United States.
Bessie Hendricks has lived through 21 presidents, two World Wars, a depression, the sinking of the Titanic and two Chicago Cubs World Series Championships. Besides being the oldest living American, according to the Gerontology Research Group, Henricks is the 10th oldest person living in the world.Schaffer just celebrated her 90th birthday a day earlier.All of the kids have the same description of their mother: hard-working and with a lot that was asked of her from a young age.
“Her mother died when she was about 13, I think mom was about 13 years old,” Schaffer said. “And she raised her siblings after that. And when she taught school, she lived right across the road from where she taught school, so she had no reason not to go, not to make it to school.”Henricks’ children all sang her favorite song to her, “You Are My Sunshine.”“We used to wheel her around her in Shady Oaks, and every room we’d stop at she’d still sing ‘You Are My Sunshine,’” he said. “And ...
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