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| The lovely Ms. Hester Ford of Charlotte, North Carolina is turning a year older. |
Ms. Hester Ford is from Charlotte, North Carolina. She got to celebrate another milestone this month with her family. The mother of 12 has 48 grandchildren and 200 great grandchildren in total.
A rare feat is being a supercentenarian. There are about 100 or so people in the world who live past 110 years old. Those who live past those lives were born between 1900 to 1910.
Ms. Hester is born on August 15, 190X which makes her 115 or 116 years old but its disputed because documents found said that she was born a year earlier. But nonetheless, Ms. Hester had been through a lot.
She survived segregation in the South. She survived World War I, World II, Korean War, Vietnam War, both Iraqi Wars and the Afghanistan War. She was born when Theodore Roosevelt was the president. She survived 20 presidents. She lived to see the first African American president named Barack Obama. She lived to see two presidents get assassinated.
She lived through some of the best and worst times in the United States. Most notable tragedies of the 20th and 21st Century were the Hindenburg tragedy, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, the first man on the moon, Martin Luther King's Assassination, Michael Jackson's death, Prince's death, Whitney Houston's death, Challenger, 9/11, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the COVID-19 pandemic. the Spanish Flu pandemic, white flight and every iconic entertainer in the 20th and 21st Century passing away.
Before her birthday on Saturday, the mayor of Charlotte, Vi Lyles had declared August 15th "Mother Hester Ford Day.'
Ms. Hester married her husband John Ford when she was 14 in 1918. John was a steel worker. He died in 1963 at the age of 57. She has survived him for 57 years and lived twice as long.
We want to wish Ms. Hester a great birthday. Hope she continues to live a good life.
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