Mary Chesney of Moberly, Missouri has turned 110 on 3 Aug 2022

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MOBERLY - If you walk the halls of Meadow Ridge Senior Living in Moberly, everyone knows Mary Chesney.

"I wish many people could meet her and love her like we do," Gina Mulnix, an employee at the senior living facility said. 

Chesney has met many people in her life as she's lived over a century. And this Wednesday, she celebrated another milestone - her 110th birthday.

"I think it's amazing, I'm just so proud of her," Chesney's niece, Mary Sharabaika, who was named after her aunt said. "She's always been fun, she's always happy."

Chesney was born in 1912 and grew up on a farm in Clifton Hill, Missouri. She moved to Kansas City for many years before moving to Moberly with her husband in the 1970's

Her secret to making it to 110 years old?

"I don't have a secret! It just happened," she said. 

Her relatives have different theories about her longevity. 

"She's had very little stress in her life, she's had no children," Sharabaika said.

"That is one things about her, she doesn't worry about things, she never has," one of Chesney's other nieces, Shirley Smith, said.

Over the years, Chesney has loved to sew, play cards and ride horses including to school.

"I rode a horse to school every day," she said as she explained how there were no buses to take her to school many years ago.