OCEAN SPRINGS -- May 15 was a day of celebration for residents at Ocean Springs Nursing Home, who helped family and friends honor centenarian Lottie Lynd.
One of 10 children, Lynd was born 1910 to Newton Broadnax and Clara Cheshire Broadnax in Bastrop, La. She is the last surviving sibling.
Lynd has lived at the nursing home for three years, among the years she has lived in South Mississippi after relocating here at age 14. She married Earnest Lynd in 1926 and lived in Biloxi until 1941 when the family moved to Ocean Springs. The couple was married 69 years when Earnest Lynd passed away.
Known as Mrs. Lottie, she has a daughter and son, Louise Murphy and Jerry Lynd, five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, one great-great grandchild, and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Lynd was born the same year that the Boy Scouts on Feb. 8 and Camp Fire Girls on Nov. 10 were founded, the year Mark Twain died on April 21, Mother Theresa was born Aug. 26 as well as Bonnie Parker on Oct. 1.
As well, Great Fire of 1910 that started near Elk City, Idaho. The fire killed 85 people, burned an estimated 1.2 million acres, destroyed several small towns and about half of Wallace, Idaho, leaving thousands without homes and businesses. The raging blaze burn Aug. 20 and Aug. 21.
Ocean Springs Nursing Home is part of the Gulf Coast Health Care.
Information for this article was obtained from www.gulflive.com/themississippipress on May 20, 2010, and other sources.
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