Posted on 10/19/2024 5:41:27 AM PDT by DFG
These five nonagenarian’s greatest gift are good genes.
Five well-seasoned siblings — all older than 90 years — are making the years count as they gathered to celebrate their oldest brother’s 98th birthday last weekend in Iowa, according to KCCI.
Harold Hoyle, 98, was surrounded by his four younger brothers and sisters, who all sported a pink or blue t-shirt indicating their respective ages in the middle of a playing card to pay homage to a popular book series that shares their namesake.
“We always joke about their last name by saying ‘According to Hoyle,’ the book of rules for card games, thus the playing card on the shirts with each having one with their age on it,” Harold’s daughter Pam Anderson told the outlet.
The “According to Hoyle” series offers players a guide on how to play — and win — any game from poker to chess and backgammon.
In a picture taken together in Ankeny, Gayle Brietske, 92, and Genevieve Sherman, 97, both wore pink shirts with the playing card with their ages in the center, as Lowell Hoyle, 93, Lyle Hoyle, 95, and Harold wore matching blue shirts.
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Cool. I hope they all make it past 100.
Well their hair color is about the same. I need a few years
to catch their current age. But I don’t have the hair.
Wow, talk about the rarest of rare events!
Good DMA
Good DNA
fixed
Man, they all look great! What a fun story.
My mother, at 93, looks better than any of them, with only a touch of gray in her hair. And she sets a pace like a Special Forces drill instructor when we take her shopping and on errands.
That is great! A blessing, indeed.
Does she have FOUR living siblings, also in their 90s?
Amazing!!
Thanks for posting.
I'm not sure. My Mom was 102 when she passed in 2019. Her younger sister was 96 when she passed, a brother was 95 when he died from a farm accident. Their mother (born in 1888) passed at 94 and their father (born in 1877) passed at 97.
Maybe it is rare, I dunno.
Good genes in your family, too!
So sad to die at 95 in a farm accident. Good for him, though, never retiring!
My Mom was still driving her car at 93. She made it to 98.5
My mom passed at 101.5 (she always stressed the half year to 102 part). She had been a health food person for most of her years from middle age on, but then I guess she decided as she reached her late nineties that she could give that a rest. Processed food, particularly donuts, became her go-tos. She deteriorated pretty quickly from an active senior to someone who could barely move, see, walk, sleep or anything else. I felt so very bad for her in her last days because she was still a youngster at heart. I am a fitness trainer and begged her to let me help her get some strength back with diet and nutrition but she said, “nah.”
Sorry, not decided in late nineties, but late eighties.
My mother has three siblings still with us, the youngest in his late 80s.
VERY blessed, all!!
My mother had to give up her car due to absurdly high insurance rates but is otherwise fully capable if driving.
My former employer’s grandmother and siblings lived to be 102, 104, 108, and 110. An incredible life span in one generation. I think they were Pennsylvanians.
Mom made it to 93, her sister 97 and Grandmother 89. I’m a guy, but I hope I’m in touch with my feminine side. 🤣👍
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