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Happy 105th birthday to Hazel Weeks! Photo courtesy of Betty Stantliff
Hazel Weeks, the oldest resident at Countryside Village Retirement Community in Stokesdale, celebrated her 105th birthday on Aug. 28.
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taking place in Europe. During her lifetime, Weeks has experienced enormous change in the world. She recalls living with no electricity or phone service, cooking on a wood stove and the use of horse-drawn wagons as the primary mode of transportation. She’s lived through both world wars and all the wars that have Hazel Weeks has lived followed, the Great Depression and through both world the Great Recession. She’s also seen wars and all the wars 18 United States presidents in office. that have followed, Weeks was a young teenager when 18 presidents, huge the Great Depression hit in 1929. “We lived on a farm and had chickupturns and downturns ens and cows and a garden. We had in the nation’s economy plenty of food,” she said. “People who – and two pandemics lived in the towns and cities nearly starved to death.” STOKESDALE – “My mother spent her To supplement what the family life caring8004 for others,” said SummerLinville Road, Suite E-3,onOak Ridge raised the farm, Weeks’ father was field resident Betty Stantliff, daughter able to find work with the Work Progof Hazel Weeks, who turned 105 on ress Administration (WPA), a work-relief barbourwilliams.com Aug. 28. “She worked hard supporting program created by President Franklin her family, caring for her dad, and later, D. Roosevelt during the Depression; the her grandchildren. Her determination program was responsible for building and faith have served her well and have many of the bridges, public parks and supported her through these last more parkways that still stand today. difficult years. She is 105 years loved.” For his work, Weeks’ father would When we interviewed her five years be “paid a dollar or two a week,” which ago for her 100th birthday, we asked was enough to “get a little coffee and Weeks about her secret to such a long life. Her answer was simple: “The Lord.” sugar,” she said. Having made it through the DepresStantliff added a little more to her sion, the United States was poised to mother’s response. jump into World War II. “Clean living. No cussing, no drinkOn Oct. 27, 1942, Weeks found ing, no smoking,” said Stantliff, which Tracy Williams, attorney herself personally impacted by that war elicited a chuckle from her mom. when she and her husband, Alton, were The third of seven children, Weeks married in Abilene, Texas. Within the was born outside southeast Greensweek, Alton, who was a master sergeant boro on Aug. 28, 1916. At the time, in the United States Army, was sent World War I was underway and most
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