Longtime Bay Area resident Andres Rivera Marquez’s brother lived to be 98 and his sister made it to 99, and this week, he celebrated his 102nd birthday.
“He’s the last of the Mohicans,” joked his daughter Sofia Gonzalez Rivera, who helped mark the occasion Saturday with a gathering at a senior center in San Francisco’s Mission District featuring several of the centenarian’s friends and family members from around the U.S. and his native Mexico.
Rivera Marquez remains mentally sharp and physically active, with good vision and only slight hearing loss that doesn’t require an aid, his daughter said. He divides his time living in the family’s longtime home in Vallejo, where his youngest daughter is his caregiver, and with Gonzalez Rivera in her San Francisco home.
“Love of music and dancing has kept him active,” Gonzalez Rivera said. “He carries a conversation in English and Spanish.”…