Do you ever wonder how people live to be 100, still in relatively good physical and mental health? I’ve always been fascinated by this.
So, imagine how I felt when I was first told about Margaret Sutton, 100. She’s active. She drives to the grocery store and church. She spends time giving back to others. She had a heart procedure at 99. The Summit County mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother, wanted to be in good shape for her 100th birthday party.
“I couldn’t breathe when I walk,” she told me. “When I breathed, the next breath, I was reaching out for it.”
Heart and History
She was once a heart surgery nurse. She retired in 1976 as a charge nurse. Things have definitely changed since then…