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Irma Morrison will tell you she has lived a wonderful life.
The Kent woman celebrates her 107th birthday with family and friends at
2 p.m. Saturday at the Aegis Inn, an assisted senior living and memory care facility on Kent’s East Hill.
“I don’t know how I got this old. … I just know to work hard. I know that life is worth living,” Irma said.
Irma is the oldest living resident in the Aegis’ 30 communities in Washington, California and Nevada, according to the company.
A third-generation Washingtonian, Irma was one of nine children born in Elberton, which is now a ghost town on the north fork of the Palouse River. The family lived there and later in Reardan.
Irma was married to Harold Morrison for 63 years. They raised two children, Twyla and Wayne. Harold did janitorial work when the family wasn’t tending to their farm in the Spokane area.
Irma helped raise 37 foster kids, mostly in the 1940s. She also worked as a nurse’s aid at a hospital in the 1950s and ’60s.
Irma has stayed strong in her later year, despite losing her eyesight.
She enjoys art, a passion reflected in her many oil paintings.
“I think I’ve done quite well with age,” she said. “I’ve had a good life. I would like to live my life all over again.”
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