Oldest man -- 112 years -- Dies in Japan

TOKYO (AP) (AOL.COM) — The world's oldest man, a retired educator from Japan, has died at the age of 112.

An official from the city of Saitama said Tuesday that Sakari Momoi died from kidney failure Sunday at a nursing home in Tokyo.

Momoi was born Feb. 5, 1903, in Fukushima prefecture, where he became a teacher. He later moved to Saitama, north of Tokyo, and served as a high school principal until retirement

Emily Post Would Have Turned 142 This Year

Emily Post, the author of etiquette standards used across the U.S. today, would have turned 142 years old on Oct. 27. While some are outdated, most of her rules of behavior are still regarded as the gold standard of  decorum.

She was born in 1872, and died Sept. 25, 1960, at age 87. She published her first book on etiquette in 1922.

Light Candle, Say Prayer to Remember Alzheimer's Patients and Families

This weekend marks the Alzheimer's Foundation of America's 11th annual National Commemorative Candle Lighting Weekend of Prayer, held each November during National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month.

 

The foundation is asking Americans to light a candle, or create virtual quilt to add a panel at the agency's website, or add a victim's name to the Book of Remembrance.

 

Contact Alzheimer's Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001.

 

Mississippi residents also may contact:

 

Melora Jackson, MS, CMHT

Division of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementia

Mississippi Dept. of Mental Health

1170 W. Railroad Street

Long Beach, MS 39560

(228) 214-5556 Wk

(228) 865-9364 Fax

(228) 806-6330 Cell

www.dmh.state.ms.us/alzheimers.htm

 

Oreo Turns 102 This Year

OREO COOKIES turned 102 years old this month, having received its tradmark March 14, 1912.

The first cookie was sold in Hoboken, NJ, under the name Oreo Biscuit, according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo).
Today, Oreos are sold in more than 100 countries, earning Kraft Foods about $1.5 billion in revenue each year, according to CNN.
Visit Oreo.com for more information

Dorothy Height's Birthday Marks 102 Years

Today marks the 102nd birthday of Dorothy Irene Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years. She was the fourth president of the organization, serving from 1957 to 1997.

Height, born March 24, 1912, died April 20, 2010. She was an administrator, educator, and civil rights and women's rights activist specifically focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. She also served as national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority from 1946 to 1957.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Height)                                                                                                                                                                                          
http://www.heavy.com/news/2014/03/dorothy-irene-height-bio-google-doodle/

100-Year-Old, Others in 90's Pass Away During February

PAULINE BROWN SMITH, who was 100, died Feb. 21, 2014, in Gulfport.

 

Arrangements are at Riemann Family Funeral Home on Three Rivers Road in Gulfport. (See www.riemannfamily.com)

 

 

Honor is given to several others in their 90's who died recently, including:

 

Mary Hall-Kimball, 93, on Feb. 18, in Maywood, N.J. She was a former resident of Ocean Springs. View her obituary at www.bradfordokeefe.com.

 

Hazel R. Ainsworth, 96, on Feb. 21, in Saucier. View her information at www.riemannfamily.com

 

Peter Moreale of Pass Christian, 91, on Feb. 20, in Gulfport. See www.riemannfamily.com

 

John Roberts of Gulfport, 90, on Feb. 22. View arrangements at www.riemannfamily.com

 

Robert Render White of Gulfport, 98, on Feb. 18, at the Veterans Administration Community Living Center in Biloxi. Hs born Dec. 4, 1915.

     According to White's obituary at www.bradfordokeefe.com, he had served during WWII in the Army Air Corps as a second lieutenant and was a bombardier on the first B-29 accepted by the Air Corps. On a B-24 crew in Europe, he flew 50 missions with the most decorated unit in the history of the Armed Forces, the 376th Bomb Group (H) 514th Squadron, based in Italy.

    During his 24-year Air Force career, he served in Okinawa, Vietnam, and various assignments in the U.S. His awards include two Distinquished Unit Badges, European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Medal with seven Battle Stars; Korean and Vietnam Theater Medals with a Battle Star each and World War II Victory Medal.

Virginia McElhaney Stringer of Hattiesburg, 93, on Feb. 19. She was born June 20, 1920, in Ellisville, Miss. She spent 30 years in the Hattiesburg school system as a teacher of grade school, junior and senior high students.
     Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home in Hattiesburg in charge of arrangements.

Crossword Puzzle Turns 100 Years Old in 2013

HALL OF FAME -- 100 YEARS AND COUNTING IN 2013

CROSSWORD PUZZLE -- This year marks the 100th year for the crossword puzzle.
On Dec. 21, 1913, the first puzzle was published in the New York World, created by Arthur Wynne, who called his puzzle a word-cross. It's known today as a crossword because of a typesetter's error.

SLAVERY END -- On Dec. 18, 1865, the slavery officially ended in the United States, as the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified eight months after the Civil War ended. Secretary of State William Seward issued a statement verifying ratification of the amendment.

Check for updates

Grand Central Station Turns 100

NEW YORK -- Grand Central Station turned 100 years old today.

Grand Central Terminal (GCT)—colloquially called Grand Central Station, or shortened to simply Grand Central—is a commuter rail terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms:^[3] 44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100. The terminal covers an area of 48 acres (19 ha).

1963

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal

Dear Abby's Pauline Friedman Phillips Dies at 94

Pauline Friedman Phillips, 94, died Jan. 16 in Memphis, Tenn.

Phillips started her "Dear Abby" column during the 1950's at the San Francisco Chronicle using the name Abigail Van Buren.

Born July 4, 1918, she was the twin sister of columnist Esther Pauline Friedman, known as Ann Landers, who died June 22, 2002.

It Was A Good Year

 

 

 

BLESS THE LORD AT ALL TIMES.

 

 

 

IT WAS A GOOD YEAR BECAUSE TIME IS PRECIOUS.

12 * 12 * 12

 

 

12 * 12 * 12

This was the progress of street work  in Pascagoula on May 2.

Burtons Named Oldest Married Couple at Old Settler's Day at Jackson County Fair

PASCAGOULA -- Elma and C.D. Burton were named the oldest married couple during Old Settler's Day on Thursday at the Jackson County Fair.

She said they received a number of gift cards and discounts as prizes.

Sandra Burton accompanied her parents to the annual program for senior citizens, which is held each Thursday of fair week, this year from Oct. 21-28.

Memorial Birthday Celebrates Polk's Life

MOSS POINT -- The descendants of Gladys Mildred Cox Polk will celebrate her birth during a three-day memorial observance, Nov. 23-25.

Polk would have marked her 100th birthday Nov. 24 this year. She passed away Monday, May 2, 2011.

A welcome reception will be held Friday, Nov. 23, at 4 p.m. at the home of Ralph and Callie Marshall, 4425 Griffin St.
 

"We are asking that you come and greet your friends and relatives. Refreshments will be served," said Callie Marshall, daughter of Gladys Polk.

A banquet will be held Saturday, Nov. 24, at Pelican Landing Conference Center on Mississippi 613, just north of Downtown Moss Point. The event will begin at 4 p.m., and a very entertaining program will be presented and a formal dinner served. Attire is casual to formal, and is the choice of attendants.

At 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 25, the family will attend worship services in Polk's honor at First Missionary Baptist Church.

Tickets for the banquet are $20 for adults, $10 for children ages 12 years and under, and free for infants and toddlers.

Family and friends are encouraged to confirm your attendance by sending banquet fee (cash, check or money order) to Callie Marshall, P.O. Box 8661, Moss Point, MS 39563 on or before Nov. 16.

Questions may be directed to calliet@cableone.net, or call 228-327-4787.

Reagan Falls, Hurts Ribs, Recovering

Nancy Reagan, one of the most beloved figures of the Republican Party, is recovering from a fall that resulted in several broken ribs.

The former first lady is now 90 but still attends some public events. The fall, which occurred in March, was disclosed only after Reagan was unable to attend a speech by Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, chairman o fthe House Budget Committee, at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.

Nancy Reagan is wife of President Ronald Reagan, who served from 1981 t0 1989, and 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. He died in June 2004.

Nancy Reagan Still Recovering From Fall

CNN News/Wednesday, May 23, 2012

AARP Offers Driving Courses

GAUTIER -- The American Association for Retired Persons regularly offers a driving class at branches of the Jackson-George Regional Libary System.

The one-day workshop, which is for residents 55-years and older, lasts about four and a half hours, and includes refreshments provided by Friends of the Library.

This week's course is from noon to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 17, in the meeting room Kathleen McIlwain Gautier Library.

www.aarp.org

http://www.jgrls.org/

St. Luke Outreach Center Opens

Friends, family and local businesses gathered to celebrate the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting at St. Luke Outreach
Center in Moss Point.

(Pictured from left to right) Dennis Willis, Sharinda Williams, Mary M. Murray, Dionne Sherrod, Rev. Joe E. Applewhite and his wife Delores Applewhite, Ellen Cole, Bert Hinton, Kevin Miller, Moss Point Mayor Aneice Liddell, Rex Foster, Moss Point Aldermen Robert Byrd and Sherwood Bradford.

104-year-old Reclaims Parasailing Record

EUROPE -- At 104 years old, Peggy Alpine of Cyprus set out to reclaim her Guiness Book record of being the oldest person in the world to parasail, which she set five years ago and had lost in September 2011 to Mary Allen Hardison, 101, of Utah. Alpine regained the record April 29.

Watch this video of Alpine parasailing.


This 104-year-old is something else, besides all smiles.

Titanic Disaster Turns 100 Years Old

Photos from wikipedia.com and picturescollection.com

PASCAGOULA -- The Pascagoula Public Library this week will join the national commemoration of the sinking of the RMS Titanic a century ago on April 15, 1912.

The oceanliner, on its maiden voyage, was traveling from South Hampton, United Kingdom, to New York City when it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic south of Newfoundland. The ship sank just over two hours later, leaving about 1,517 people dead and some 706 survivors, mostly women and children.

The library's program, "Remembering the Titanic," will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 17.

Renee Hauge with the library's Genealogy and History Department will make a PowerPoint presentation, which she said would be an interactive musical storytelling of the ship, its passengers, and the disaster. The program is a memorial to the people lost aboard Titanic, she said.

"These people that died, we need to remember them always because of their sacrifice," she said.

"The stories are so beautiful because of the bravery. Most of the people faced their death so beautifully."

She said so many mistakes led up to the accident, which took the lives of so many people. However, she said new safety regulations were added to commercial ship operation that now saves the lives of both rich and poor.

Hauge said residents will be able to participate in the program as passengers boarding the library's Titanic. Those attending will be given boarding passes that have the names of actual passengers who were aboard the Titanic on April 15, 1912, when the luxury liner sank in the frigid waters of the USA's North Atlantic coast.

"We will pass out a boarding pass and tell them to don't open it until we tell them to open it," she said. "They will open the pass. They will find out who they were on the ship and they will find out if they lived or died."

Dr. Robert Ballard found the Titantic in 1985 in 13,000 feet of water.

HISTORY OF THE TITANIC (wikipedia online)

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. One of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, she was built between 1909–11 by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. She carried 2,223 people.

Her passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as over a thousand emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere seeking a new life in North America. The ship was designed to be the last word in comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. She also had a powerful wireless telegraph provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for operational use. Though she had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, she lacked enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard. Due to outdated maritime safety regulations, she carried only enough lifeboats for 1,178 people – slightly more than half of the number travelling on the maiden voyage and one-third her total passenger and crew capacity.After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading westwards towards New York.[2] On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm (ship's time; GMT−3). The glancing collision caused Titanic's hull plates to buckle inwards in a number of locations on her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea. Over the next two and a half hours, the ship gradually filled with water and sank. Passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly filled. A disproportionate number of men – over 90% of those in Second Class – were left aboard due to a "women and children first" protocol followed by the officers loading the lifeboats. Just before 2:20 am Titanic broke up and sank bow-first with over a thousand people still on board. Those in the water died within minutes from hypothermia caused by immersion in the freezing ocean. The 710 survivors were taken aboard from the lifeboats by RMS Carpathia a few hours later.

Reference for Dr. Robert Ballard: http://www.titanic-titanic.com/discovery_of_titanic.shtml

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