Keyser native has witnessed history
KEYSER Mineral County native Norma Hesse has seen a lot of changes in her life.
The year she was born, Warren G. Harding was inaugurated as the 29th president of the United States and Adolf Hitler later became the fuhrer of the Nazi Party in Germany.
Since then, she has lived through the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor and World War II, as well as the Korean War, Vietnam War, and Iraqi War.
She witnessed the birth of the Super Bowl, the cell phone, CDs and DVDs and streaming television.
Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon in Norma’s lifetime, and we all survived Y2K.