Maybee woman marking 100th birthday this weekend – Monroe News
Bernice Langton has done much in her lifetime — competed in synchronized swimming, milked cows, made rosaries, ran a floral design business, traveled abroad and taken pottery classes in college.
Bernice Langton has done much in her lifetime — competed in synchronized swimming, milked cows, made rosaries, ran a floral design business, traveled abroad and taken pottery classes in college.
And she’s still going strong. On Thursday, the Maybee resident marked her 100th birthday and will celebrate with family and friends with cake and ice cream outdoors at her home Sunday. Joining them will be members of her parish and garden club.
“She is still pretty active,” her daughter, Roberta (Rich) Resovsky of Sun Lakes, Ariz., said Thursday. “She’s an amazing woman. She lives in her own house and is a little hard of hearing, but she still does her own cooking and dresses herself. She also drove until four years ago.”
The former Bernice Brancheau was born June 22, 1917, on a Trombley Rd. farm in Newport, where she lived with her two sisters and a brother until she was nine. The family moved to Swan Creek Rd. and she attended St. Charles Catholic Grade School through ninth grade. She was a 1936 graduate of Monroe High School, where she swam on the synchronized swim team.
“She always loved the water,” Resovsky said.
After marrying Irving Langton in 1940, she
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