Jim Dailey

Happy Birthday Aunt Marguerite … Happy 107                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

I must say, it’s hard to fathom living to one hundred but to live past the Century mark is unimaginable. Well, it did happen and 107 years ago yesterday Marguerite Alford was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. An earlier post related my wife, Patti, shown above with her sister, Suzanne, taking her aunt to her birth home on 12th Street in our Capitol City.

While thinking about this remarkable lady and this true chronological miracle, my mind began to reel as I considered the happenings during her lifetime … she almost made it for the Wright Brothers flight in 1903, she was there for the start of WWl in 1914, was a young adult during the Great Depression, the stock market crash of 1929, the early days of automobiles, the Right to Vote for Women, the Pearl Harbor Attack, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a man walking on the moon and the assassination of JFK.

Meanwhile, Back to 2013 and the Birthday Party

In spite of her age, this amazing lady, still sharp as a tack, with a present and past memory better than most twenty somethings, was fully alert, completely aware and thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of the celebration. She had loved ones, friends and family members from other states, from various ages … but all present to celebrate a beautiful life of a beautiful lady.  May God continue to bless us with Birthday 108