{"id":11417,"date":"2014-12-30T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/tillie-turns-103\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:15:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:15:37","slug":"tillie-turns-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/tillie-turns-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillie turns 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Family and friends \u2013 with a special appearance from Mayor Suzette Cooke \u2013 celebrated Tillie Koch&#8217;s 103rd birthday at Titus Court on Dec. 23.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A 10-year resident, Tillie is the oldest tenant at the Kent senior housing community. She officially turned 103 on Dec. 18.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;I feel fine,&#8221; Tillie said. &#8220;I am healthy and living at a place I enjoy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Born and raised on a small farm in North Dakota, Tillie was one of 11 children. Her father was a carpenter, welder and jack-of-all-trades.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t have a big farm, but we had what we needed,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We had a big garden to maintain. I had a beautiful mother and father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Tillie and her late husband, Michael, were married for 42 years. They raised two daughters, who live nearby.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family and friends \u2013 with a special appearance from Mayor Suzette Cooke \u2013 celebrated Tillie Koch&#8217;s 103rd birthday at Titus Court on Dec. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":11418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11417"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}