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CELEBRATING A
CENTURY
Happy
100,
Ann Thomas!
by Marilyn Dixon
Claude and Ann with Linda, Gayle, and Marilyn
Ann Thomas is a woman who beats live to 100; she had two aunts who but on the 15th day and no virus
the odds! She has just become a also lived to be over the age of 100. symptoms, she decided it was safe to
centenarian, an accomplishment that go back to the hair salon. After her
less than 1% of the population ever Her most recent triumph has been stylist finished, Ann got up from the
achieve. She is 100 years old and beating the Covid-19 virus. For chair and immediately melted to the
looks no more than 80. In fact, she Covid patients over the age of floor. The stylist called 911; Ann’s
is the third woman in her family to 80, approximately less than 15% blood pressure had plummeted.
survive the She was taken to the hospital and,
virus. After after several tests, was told that she
months of had Covid, among several other
being very problems. She was quickly admitted
careful, to the hospital and isolated from
staying at everyone, including her family. In
home, only fact, the doctors told her she only
getting out had a 50/50 chance of survival. The
to go to her family was devastated but knew
hair salon, that if anyone could beat Covid, it
she was would be Ann! She was determined
accidentally to recuperate, and after only a week
exposed to in the hospital, she was dismissed
the virus. and is at home now, getting stronger
She was each day.
immediately
quarantined Ann was born in 1920 in Vernon,
Ann’s 100th Birthday Drive-by Celebration
again, Texas and lived on the family farm
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