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KENDALLVILLE â Mary Kathryn Schlotterback, a resident at Chandler Place, celebrates her 104th birthday Friday. Her family shares this information about her:
Kay, as her family calls her, was born May 7, 1917, one of four children of Ruth (1893-1988) and Henry Peterson (1887-1922). She has lived her entire life in Noble County, and is the last survivor of her generation on both sides of the family.
Kayâs siblings were Ellsworth Peterson (1914-2006), Helen Ream (1915-1993) and Ray Peterson (1919-2004).
Kay married Art Stockton in 1939 and he died in 1952. Ten years later, she married Frank Schlotterback, who died in 2007.
Her family said some of her fondest memories are being on the farm with her sister and brothers, and being with her mother, whom she idealized. She milked cows by hand and describes being friends with the cows so they wouldnât kick her.