10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JANUARY 11, 2017
Local resident celebrates 100th birthday
BY CAITLYN MAY
cmay@cgsentinel.com
Maxine Aldridge
plans to ring in
her 100th year at
the Village Green
Resort
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M
axine
Aldridge
stands 4’9”. She
takes two pills a
day; one for her thyroid and
another for her blood pressure
which, isn’t troublesome per
say, but it does fl uctuate. She
goes out to eat several nights a
week and ends every night with
a cocktail. On the morning of
Jan. 6 she ventured out into the
aftermath of a notable winter
storm to get her hair done. It
was her 100th birthday.
“Am I 100 today?” she asked
over her third cup of coffee.
Early onset dementia has set
in but like her daughter Nancy
said, “What doesn’t start to go
at 100?”
Nancy, 80, lives with Al-
dridge in a house they share
with Nancy’s sister, Susie, 69.
They’ve been residents of Cot-
tage Grove for 14 years and be-
fore the threat of a new snow-
storm was announced, they
planned a birthday party for
Aldridge at her favorite local
haunt: Village Green.
“She likes to sit in front of
the fi re place and people know
here there, they come and talk
to her and she really likes that,”
Nancy said.
The party has since been
postponed a week but Al-
dridge’s daughters still planned
to celebrate the milestone day
that was fi rst marked 100 years
ago in Doons, IA.
Aldridge was born to a paint-
er and housewife in 1917 just
after the new year. While two
cousins have made it to 101 and
104 years of age, Aldridge’s
mother died early.
“She had a leaky heart
valve,” Nancy explained. “To-
day it’s a trip to the doctor but
not in 1921. Mom’s birthday is
Jan. 6. Her brother’s was Jan. 8
so my grandmother celebrated
on Jan. 7.” But on that day in
1921, Mrs. Josephine McK-
inney went to lay down and
didn’t wake up. She was 35.
Aldridge remembers being
shuttled around after her moth-
er’s death, eventually settling
with an aunt and experiencing
a harsh childhood. At the age
of 18, she met Ernest Aldridge.
They were married 10 days
later and over the course of 20
years, had four children togeth-
er.
“They were married for 54
years until dad passed in 1988
at 81,” Nancy said.
Aldridge would see a son,
Douglas, pass in 2007 and
shepherd her daughters through
their own losses. Both women
lost their husbands and Nancy
buried both of her children.
“She’s been our rock of the
family,” Nancy said.
Without her hearing aid,
most conversations with Al-
dridge require a bit of shouting
but according to her daughters,
she enjoys the company of oth-
ers and likes to have long con-
versations. They say she’s still
gregarious and happy to tell a
joke. And while she’s forgotten
how to play her favorite card
game, it doesn’t stop her from
winning a round of solitaire on
the computer. A technology she
used regularly until the age of
90.
“My sister had a business in
Seattle and mom did all the in-
voicing for it on the computer,”
Nancy said.
Aside from her two daily
pills, Nancy said Aldridge is in
perfect health. Her secret?
“She
does
everything
wrong,” Nancy said. Aldridge
doesn’t take vitamins, drinks
light cocktails and eats as she
pleases.
The remainder of Aldridge's
family is scattered through the
country but plans are already in
the works for a family reunion
this summer. It will be a chance
for Aldridge to see her 13
great-grandchildren and great-
great grandchildren. As for her
future, Nancy said,
“Women tend to live long in
our family. She’s had a good,
full life.”
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Maxine Aldridge,100, married at 18, had four children over 20
years and takes just two pills a day as well as a nightly cocktail.
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