One of Palm Beach’s most sporting and loveliest dames is Jane Will Teagle Boggs Smith a genuine beacon of charm and well-earned wisdom. Not surprisingly for this indomitable whippet of a woman, Jane has survived not one, but TWO pandemics, having been born in 1918 as the Spanish influenza was taking a deadly hold on the world stage. Tragically, her mother Catherine Will had contracted influenza and died at the tender age of 25, less than six months after Jane’s birth. Although symptomatic as a toddler, she and her sister Katherine survived the 1918 pandemic. Moreover, Jane has lived robustly for the 102 years since then. Said Smith: “In those days there was nothing to give you. My grandmother worried that they were burying people alive, just to get them out of the hospitals. I was lucky to survive it and I’ve had a strong immune system ever since.” She’s also been blessed with stamina and will power that’s uncommon in most 30-year-olds.
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Only residents 65 and older are eligible for vaccinations under an executive order issued last month by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which restricts COVID-19 vaccinations in the first phase to nursing home residents and staff, people 65 and older, medical workers and anyone they deem extremely vulnerable” to COVID-19.
Smith was born in a time when there was no influenza vaccine, and no hope for one.
Recalling what she had been told of her childhood, Smith said her father, Harold Will, was stationed in France during World War I when the flu hit, so her grandmother practically kidnapped her and her mother, taking them out of Syracuse and into Watertown, New York, when the pandemic started getting worse. Smith’s sister, Katherine, was already living outside Syracuse with an aunt.