Sunbury mayor recognizes centenarian

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

One hun­dred years ago air­planes were a bit of cloth stretched over wood, held together with wires, and kept aloft by what today would be lit­tle more than go-cart engines; but accord­ing to Coun­try View Nurs­ing Home res­i­dent Jean Gaboric things haven’t changed all that much in the past century.

Gaboric should know. Sep­tem­ber 14 was her 100th Birthday.

For Gaboric, it was just another day, just another birth­day; she was play­ing Bingo in the main lounge with other res­i­dents. What she didn’t know was that her fam­ily mem­bers were wait­ing in the wings with a sur­prise birth­day party, com­plete with cake and, best of all, her great-grandchildren.

When Sun­bury Mayor Tommy Hat­field heard about Gaboric earn­ing her cen­tury wings, he showed up with a may­oral procla­ma­tion rec­og­niz­ing the cen­te­nar­ian, and brought a bou­quet of flow­ers as a per­sonal gift.

“These are the kind of events I like to attend as mayor,” Hat­field said. “Jean is a delight­ful lady and it’s my honor as the mayor of Sun­bury to for­mally rec­og­nize her 100th birthday.”

Attend­ing the party were Gaboric’s sons Allan and Richard and their wives Patri­cia and Julie, respec­tively, and Allen and Patricia’s daugh­ter, Emily Ingram. Gaboric’s daugh­ter Noreen lives in South Dakota and was unable to attend. Also there with Happy Birth­day hugs for their great-grandmother were Ade­laide and Colette Ingram and Mor­gan Gaboric.

Coun­try View Activ­ity Direc­tor Con­nie Jack­son said Jean Gaboric is very active.

“She attends almost every activ­ity, and goes on bus out­ings,” Jack­son said. “She’s a very sweet and delight­ful lady, very car­ing about the other res­i­dents, and very fam­ily ori­ented – she loves her grandchildren.”

Jean Gaboric was born and raised in Penn­syl­va­nia, has lived in the Cleve­land area, and came to Cen­tral Ohio in 1989.

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