Conversations, friendships and a bit of indulging in an alcoholic drink may be secrets to living a long life if Delores “Dee” Armstrong is an example.
“When the world has people in it who can actually describe history from 100 years ago, I believe they should be honored.” — Shirley DiRado.
“You know, friends are so important. I still have three, who are over 100. Up until we were in our late 90s, we’d meet the last Friday of the month to play Tripoley and Double Pinochle, then go to Islands in Porter Ranch and have dinner and a margarita. I still send them a box of See’s candy on their birthday every year.
She remembers as a little girl standing in the doorway of her parent’s Nebraska farmhouse by her father’s side as a group of local Indians rode up on horseback. “It was a hard life on the farm, but a good, honest one. My mother lived to be 101, my father wasn’t so lucky. He died at 50.”