Posted on 03/23/2008 3:58:01 PM PDT by lowbridge
A 114-year-old woman, considered the oldest person in Texas, has died at a Dallas retirement home.
Arbella Perkins Ewings celebrated her birthday March 13 with a proclamation from Mayor Tom Leppert and speeches by friends and family. She blew out all 114 candles on her birthday cake.
Ewings was born March 13, 1894, the fourth oldest of 12 children whose great-grandparents had been slaves in Mississippi. She married Frank Ewings in 1915, and they moved to South Dallas in 1936, where she worked as a housekeeper until the 1960s.
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Her only surviving sibling, Annie Lee Perkins, is 103.
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If I can still be posting on FR at 114 then living that long could be a very cool thing.
Helluva run. RIP.
What a witness to history!
Yes. She has seen three centuries in her lifetime. That’s quite a feat.
Where’s the barf alert.
“She told me once that the secret to a long life is she spent six months minding her own business and six months leaving other people alone,” said Ruby Perkins Williams, a great-grandniece.
Sounds like good advice to me
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