{"id":2059,"date":"2015-09-02T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/irma-still-going-strong-at-107\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T17:05:36","slug":"irma-still-going-strong-at-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/irma-still-going-strong-at-107\/","title":{"rendered":"Irma still going strong at 107"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reporter staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Irma Morrison will tell you she has lived a wonderful life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Kent woman celebrates her 107th birthday with family and friends at<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2 p.m. Saturday at the Aegis Inn, an assisted senior living and memory care facility on Kent\u2019s East Hill.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how I got this old. \u2026 I just know to work hard. I know that life is worth living,\u201d Irma said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Irma is the oldest living resident in the Aegis\u2019 30 communities in Washington, California and Nevada, according to the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Irma was married to Harold Morrison for 63 years. They raised two children, Twyla and Wayne. Harold did janitorial work when the family wasn\u2019t tending to their farm in the Spokane area.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Irma helped raise 37 foster kids, mostly in the 1940s. She also worked as a nurse\u2019s aid at a hospital in the 1950s and \u201960s.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Irma has stayed strong in her later year, despite losing her eyesight.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

She enjoys art, a passion reflected in her many oil paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve done quite well with age,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve had a good life. I would like to live my life all over again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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