On Sunday, July 26, a day before she turned 109 years old, Mary Rose Leonardi was celebrated with a line of well-wishers that motored past her current residence, the senior community Seacrest Village in Little Egg Harbor. Leonardi, formerly a resident of Barnegat Light and, later, Brant Beach, was joined outside the facility’s West Pavilion entrance by her daughter Rosemary Hirsekorn, who had decorated the area with a birthday banner and balloons.
“It was just wonderful,” said Hirsekorn, who now works as an activities assistant at Seacrest, to be with her mom.
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