BERKELEY, N.J. – Last week, Tallwoods Care Center in New Jersey received a special delivery: 110 roses.
One for each year Hilda Brown has been alive.
Brown turned 110 on Jan. 20, and she has beaten the odds in more ways than one.
Brown has joined the supercentenarian club – people age 110 or older. There are as many as 76 in the United States right now, according to the website Gerontology Wiki. And she reached that milestone right after surviving COVID-19, which she contracted in November.
“We are absolutely amazed,” great-niece Kristen Howe said. “My entire family is amazed.”
Surviving COVID-19
Howe said the family was notified in mid-November that someone in close contact with Brown had tested positive for COVID-19. Then the family was notified that her roommate had tested positive. Shortly thereafter, Brown herself tested positive and was moved to a quarantine floor, Howe said.