Happy 105th
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| Andrew Keller |
| 9/28/2009 |
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| She was born four years after the turn of the 20th century in Minnesota and 105 years later she`s celebrating her latest birthday in Bismarck. In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt was president and Amanda Klinger was born. She says she felt great in 2008, and in 2009, she feels just fine. Even the residents at Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center are "Wow`d" by the age of Klinger. Monday marked 105 years from 1904 when she was born, but don`t let her age fool you. It`s just another year of her great life. "I was born in Minnesota, my parents moved to North Dakota to the homestead in 1906 I believe it was, and I`ve lived here ever since," Klinger says. The second born to an immigrant family from Norway, she remembers when she only knew how to speak Norwegian and was forced to learn English in school. She remembers growing up on the family farm in Voltaire and later Turtle Lake, and realizing the farm life wasn`t for her. "I`ll never marry a farmer because I didn`t want to live on a farm," she says. A she lived by that statement, and ended up marrying a man who owned a shop. In the 1940s she moved to Mandan and in 1960 moved to Bismarck where she`s spent the past 59 years and says she`s seen quite the changes. If you ask she`s got it all going for her, she feels great, her memory is good, and she gets to enjoy some of the best brownies in Bismarck on her Birthday. She says everybody can live to one-oh-five, but she does offer this age-defying advice. "Live from day to day, I guess, that`s about it," she says. Klinger has one daughter, five grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren, and 14 great great grandchildren. |
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