Surrounded by friends and family members, Newark resident Barbara J. Wideman celebrated her 100th birthday last week.
“She swore to me she wasn’t going to make it, but she did,” daughter Joyce Hoopes told those gathered. “She’s here, and we’re having the party.”
Born in Maine and raised in Massachusetts, Wideman first came to Delaware when her husband David, who was a tank and pipeline worker, got a job building the Delaware City refinery…