100th birthday  

Gladys Snyder, a resident of Masonic Village, Elizabethtown, observed her 100th birthday April 20 at the village with more than 45 guests and well wishers, including many of her friends from Columbia's St. John's Lutheran Church, Columbia Masonic Lodge 286 and Columbia Chapter of Eastern Star.
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Aldine Stewart is a woman of deep and abiding faith, who believes there's a reason God has kept her on this earth all this time.
She turns 100 today, Easter Sunday, which seems to be an extra blessing, in a lifetime of blessings, for this church mother, this mother of a pastor, this woman ...

When Paula Perez talks about her favorite television show, her face brightens and she smiles.

"I love to watch those people; they are so nice and have beautiful voices," Perez said.

Perez, who turned 102 on Tuesday, said her hearing is slightly diminished, but she still loves music.

The fei...

When Frances MacMinn was asked to recall some of the highlights and memories of her life, she paused and reflected for a moment.

"I never took things too easily growing up. Maybe I was a troublemaker, but no one ever told me," she joked.

MacMinn has a keen sense of humor and a good attitude &m...

Optimism and effort can carry you far.

Mix in a little good health and you'll have a life something like Geraldine Priddey, who today enjoys a clear mind and fond memories at the age of 100.

"You have to persevere," Priddey explained in the sunshine outside her Luthercare home. "You have to ke...

While birthdays are occasions to celebrate, Violet Stamp said she shies away from the spotlight when it comes to hers.

"As you age, your strength goes. You kind of go backwards," Stamp said, making fun of her age.

Then she added: "Do things while you can, and do what you want."

Stamp reache...

Plenty of salt on her food, fresh fruits and vegetables, and reading have helped Erika Elizabete Zeltins live a long and happy life.

Born in Latvia on March 4, 1912, to Janis and Alicae Akermanis, her life has spanned two world wars, the Great Depression and the Space Age.

She will mark the oc...

Pablo Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

For Mary Fichtner, who today turns 100, the spirit never failed.

"I always fell in love with artwork," Fichtner, of Lancaster, said. "Anything at all."

Fichtner's path to oil paintin...

A fox trot a day keeps the reaper away.

At least that's the case for Miriam Moore of Columbia, who today turns 105 after a lifetime of dancing and general high energy.

She was born in 1907 to Mathias and Ellen Teufel, the second-to-youngest of five children.

She's been active since the begi...

Anne Kensinger sat quietly in a comfortable chair in her apartment at Landis Homes in Lititz. She spoke softly but clearly, as she described her life.

"I had all the diseases a child could have," she said.

But that was long ago, and a lot has changed.

Kensinger turns 105 today, but to her t...