News Photo by Darby Hinkley
Ruth DeWyre will turn 100 on March 4.
ALPENA – This 99-year-old never thought she’d live to see 100, but she will become a centenarian on Thursday, March 4.
“I had no idea,” she said of making it this far. “I have days when I feel pretty good, and then there’s other days … I have Parkinson’s disease and heart trouble.”
You wouldn’t know it by looking at her, though. Poised in a lovely purple paisley dress and wearing lipstick, you can tell this lady is classy. She lives in her own apartment at a senior living facility in Alpena.