Mrs Pauline Cook of Roanoke, Virginia, USA has celebrated her 111th birthday. She was born in the state of Illinois, USA on 30 March 1913.

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Roanoke woman celebrates 111th birthday Saturday

By Joe Dashiell

Published: Mar. 30, 2024 at 12:24 AM CET

 

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Pauline Cook enjoyed a birthday serenade Friday morning, with her neighbors at Harmony Assisted Living singing along.

Saturday, Cook celebrates her 111th birthday.

Cook moved to the Roanoke Valley two years ago with her daughter and son-in-law, but she’s spent most of her life in California. Growing up in Whittier, she was a high-school and college classmate of Richard Nixon.

“Never really went out with him, never dated him, but I liked him,” Cook told us Friday morning. “Everybody liked him. He was president of everything, president of the student body, president of the high school, you know, just a leader.”

 

Speaking with Cook and her daughter Nancy Shelley, we asked about the keys to her long life. Cook joked that she did all of the things she was not supposed to do.

“Well, I’m not a very great worrier,” Cook said. “I can worry and then I can quit worrying. I’m through with that.”

“Like she said., she doesn’t worry about anything,” added Shelley. “Everything just flows over her shoulders, and she goes on. And if I have even half of that in my genes I think I’m lucky.”

Today, Cook enjoys reading and visiting with family and her friends at Harmony Assisted Living.

Before we left, we asked if she had any advice for the rest of us.

“No, I don’t, because I think you all are just great,” she said. “I don’t know that you need to change a thing. Just continue living.”

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