Rose Cordasco was wondering what all the fuss was about.

On the afternoon of Feb. 27, a parade of automobiles led by a Barnegat Township police car were tooting their horns down her cul-de-sac street in the Pheasant Run community. When told they were doing it in honor of Cordasco’s 100th birthday, she was dumbfounded.

“Why are they doing this for me? I’m not a special person” was what the centenarian first said, according to her daughter, Janet Andricsak. Cordasco lives with her and son-in-law Stephen Andricsak at the Barnegat residence.

Her daughter said the secret to a long life is “good living and good eating.”