Grandma Doris Celebrates 90 Years

She couldn’t stand up, but she enjoyed the opportunity to dress up for her 90^th birthday party on September 20, 2013.  Doris Mae Bradford Henion, born September 20, 1923, was the guest-of-honor at a gathering of some of her square dance friends, Yolanda (a volunteer at Crown Pointe), Claudia (Yolanda’s young friend), Ed, Larry and I.  We had the traditional cake and ice cream, balloons and a slide show (Larry has spent a great deal of time digitizing our family photographs) of her from birth through her good years.  She looked at the pictures of her childhood and loudly declared “I never had black hair.  Someone must have colored those pictures wrong!”  We partied until about 9:30 p.m., then when everyone else had left, we went back to her apartment to help her get ready for bed.  She seems to have enjoyed and appreciated our efforts to celebrate her life … although she was very unhappy to have people know her age.  “Don’t tell everyone I’m 90 … they all think I’m only 60!!!”