Post by M. Hawbaker on Apr 20, 2021 17:07:34 GMT
After living through "real life experience" of two pandemics; both world wars; and raising 12 children, 48 grandchildren, 108 great-grandchildren and approximately 120 great-great-grandchildren, the longest living American, Hester McCardell Ford, died Saturday in her home, surrounded by loved ones.
In sharing her secret to longevity, Ford credited her faith in the Lord: "I'm living for the Lord, hun," she said after celebrating her 116th birthday in August 2020.
Ford was born August 15, 1904, in Lancaster, South Carolina, during Theodore Roosevelt's second term as president, worked in the cotton fields and then as a nanny for 20 years, and was a longstanding member of Macedonia Baptist Church.
