While the youth of today have unanimously declared 2020 to be the worst year, with 2021 threatening to follow suit, it might behoove them to talk perspective with Lucia P. DeClerck, who will celebrate her 105th birthday on Jan. 25.
“The Lord has been kind to me,” said the lifelong Catholic, with one hand around the rosary on her chest. “My granddaughter brought it from the holy land for me,” she said, smiling.
How has she made it this far? “I’ve tried to live a good life, one foot in front of the other.”
DeClerck lived through both World Wars, the Great Pandemic (also known as the Spanish Flu), Prohibition and the civil…
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