A Talk with MOM in her 101st year July 2006

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A Talk with Mom on Mother's Day 2005

This is a audio recording that I made with my Mom on Mother's Day in the year she became 100.
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The Newly Weds

  

The Wedding party

  

Peter &lucy

  

Instructions for staff about Mom

  
They should also add she must get her hair and nails done at least once a month,she also likes to play bingo,and talk.

Grandchild Joanne With Mom

  

No train to Brooklyn today

 
My Dad kept asking when the train to brooklyn was coming. 

The Mulieri's

 Dad,Mom,Jim,Pete,Phylis 

Mom and Dad at Mom's 101st Birthday at Robinson terace

  

My visit with Mom at Robinson Terrace Nursing Home in her 101 year July 2006 #2

He turned out to be 100 years old.

The Joplin Globe - Online Editions: "t found one man who not only had subscribed for 50 years but he had just taken out a new two-year subscription. He turned out to be 100 years old.
“Since I hope to be alive in two years,” he said, he was taking advantage of the lower annual subscription rate for two-year subscribers.
Sometimes when our hopes are too long deferred it is because we need a new set of hopes.
A wise old lady in my parish in Boston had a saying, “When everything is against you, just quit.” She didn’t mean we are to give up. She meant we are to go on to something else — something that offers more hope of success.
When one set of hopes fails, we can remember the line of Signor Pococurante in Voltaire’s “Candide”: “I shall have another garden laid out tomorrow upon a nobler plan. Another garden of hopes.”
But mostly, I think, hope is a matter of carrying on with the simple, familiar acts of our daily life while leaving ourselves open for the happy surprises which life so often brings to those who don’t lose hope.
The essayist E.B. White once wrote a letter to a friend who was in the throes of despair. He said:
“As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate.
"

With Sister Dolly

With Sister Dolly 

Open the Gifts

Open the Gifts 

Birthday baloon

Birthday baloon 

Birthday baloon

Birthday baloon 

Reading Cards

Reading Cards 

The Gifts Cat

 

Great grandchildren

Great grandchildren 

The Mulieri Clan

The Mulieri Clan 

Aug 9,2005 100 Birthday

Aug 9,2005 100 Birthday 

100th Birthday Invitation

Hi
I'm planning a party for my Mom for 100th birthday at her house on 884 Bowling Green Drive,in Westbury,NY,where they have lived for the last 55 years, on Sat Aug.6, 2005 at 2:00 PM. Everyone is invited who wants to celebrate my Mom's Century of Living.There will be food,refreshments,a cake,and possibly entertainment. I want this to be a truly memorable occasion. If you have additional ways to celebrate this occasion ,please let me know. I need to know how many people are coming to properly prepare for it. I will be going on vacation from July 1, to July 25, so email my brother James Mulieri at jmulieri@tampabay.rr.com with the number of people coming and he in turn he will relay the messages to me. This will also be the time we will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. My dad is 97 and they still live together. They were married at the end of August 1930. I think this is a record. If you know of anyone married longer than 75 years in the United States and still living let me know. If you know of anyone who might want to come. forward them this message.
Peter Mulieri
631-675-6013
pmulieri@gmail.com
pmulieri@optonline.net
pmulieri@spamarrest.com
Website Blog: http://fanniemulieri-100-years.blogspot.com

Centenarians cite faith as key to long life

Centenarians cite faith as key to long life: "
Monday, June 20, 2005
BY MARY KLAUS
Of The Patriot-News
Ida Betty Orstein dances around the issue of her age as easily as she waltzes, fox-trots or twists around the dance floor at the Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg.
'I can't just sit around,' she said shortly after she and five other residents of the Lower Paxton Twp. nursing home were welcomed into the Century Club, comprised of residents who have celebrated 100 years of life. 'I like dancing, especially the Hava Nagilah [an energetic Jewish dance whose title translates into 'let's celebrate']. Dancing is fun.' At 101, the petite, elegant Orstein is the senior member of the home's Century Club. 'It's not unusual for us to have one or two residents 100 years old,' said Nancy Vandevender, Jewish Home director of therapeutic recreation. 'But we've never had six people 100 years old or older. That's unique.' "

Mom's Press release for birthday celebration

[ClickPress, Mon Jun 20 2005] Fannie Mulieri of Westbury, NY, of immigrant parents will have lived a century on Aug 9, 2005. She is still living with her husband Anthony, who is 97. They were married in Brooklyn ,where they were both born,in Aug 1930. Its a toss up as to the greater accomplishment, living to 100 or being married for 75 years.

They have 3 children,6 grandchildren,and 11 great grandchildren. They have lived at 884 Bowling Green Drive for the last 55 years. She never drove a car,but she knows what email,cable TV,and the internet is.

She flew in a plane as far as Kansas and Florida. They don't worry about cholesterol or fat content of what they eat. They drink beer, wine,and soda with their meals. Anthony takes no prescription drugs. They both laugh a lot.

For more information,pictures,musings and audio interviews,see the blog http://fanniemulieri-100-years.blogspot.com

Contact Name: Peter Mulieri
Contact Email: pmulieri@optonline.net
Contact Phone: (631) 675-6013

1930 Census page Marchetti Family

1930 Census page Marchetti Family

Mom's parents monument,St John's cemetary. Queens,NY

Mom's parents monument

M is for sister Maime

Mom's tenth-2 audio post

Mom's tenth-1 audio post

Members honor 99-year-old retired teacher

Charleston Daily Mail: "Members honor
99-year-old retired teacher
Tuesday May 03, 2005

A retired teacher who will be 100 years old later this month has been honored with a special citation passed by Putnam County school board."

World War II and moving to the suburbs talk with MOM

Mom's ninth-1 audio post

Dad's 97th birthday With Mom 99 -April 8,2005,married 75 years and still smiling

Dad's 97th birthday With Mom 99 -April 8,2005 

Helen May to celebrate 100th

Rolla Daily News: "
Many of us can't image living to be 100 years old, but for Helen May of Rolla,MO it's just a few days away. May will celebrate her 100th birthday on March 30.
What has May been doing all these years? A lot of hard work and keeping busy.
Originally from Galesburg, Ill., she was the oldest of three children. She graduated magna cum laude from Knox College in Illinois with a bachelor's degree in English in 1925. 'This was quite an accomplishment, especially because not many women were attending college at the time,' Janet Brown, May's daughter who lives in Rolla, said. 'She was also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.'"

At 100 years old, she has ride of her life

The Brunswick News: "
Sat, Mar 26, 2005
By BJ CORBITT
Pearl Hodge had one wish for her 100th birthday, and no gray skies were going to stand in her way.
So Friday morning, she met up with her friends at the Cuttin' Up beauty shop at St. Mark's Towers, the same place she has gone every Friday for the past eight years.
But instead of settling into the stylist's chair, she climbed onto the back of a two-seater motorcycle, behind driver Lou Card, and took a spin around the parking lot during a steady drizzle.
It was her first-ever motorcycle ride � at 100 years and one day young. "

Mom and Sandra's twins

Mom and Sandra's twins 

Mom's Eigth-3 audio post

Mom's Eigth-2 audio post

Mom's Eigth-1 audio post

Mom's Seventh-2 audio post

Mom's Seventh-1 audio post

Mom's Sixth-2 audio post

Mom's Sixth-1 audio post

Old Moore turned 100 years old on Saturday-Sheffield,UK

Sheffield Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More: "Reds give old Frank birthday to rememberA SHAFT of light, a bit of a defrost ... and it wasn't just the candles on Frank Moore's birthday cake.
Old Moore turned 100 years old on Saturday. It's been a long life, probably seemed longer thanks to Oakwell season-ticket stubs dating back to World War One."

'Ozzie' celebrates 100 years among friends - 02/28/2005 -

The Taunton Gazette - News and Sports - 02/28/2005 - 'Ozzie' celebrates 100 years among friends: "Osman Crotty celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday, but he doesn't feel any different. DIGHTON,MA

'I feel the same as I did yesterday,' Crotty said among nearly 100 of his friends and relatives, who surprised him with a big birthday cake and balloons at Lincoln Village. "

Mom's fifth(1) audio post

Mom's fifth audio post

Mom and Letting Go

By Peter Mulieri
Up until I was 7 or eight years old I was always in my moms or brothers sight. I went with my mother shopping,to the dentist , etc.. She also entrusted me to my grandfather who lived in the middle floor of a three family house. My aunt,uncle and cousins lived on the first floor and we lived on the top floor. There were four grandkids all within three years of each other. My grandfather used to make us lunch many times. He baked a chicken usually. We each had a little glass of wine. After lunch we would play card games he taught us,such as brisk,casino,and Seth a mezz(7-1/2)which is the Italian version of black jack. Also jacks were higher than queens in his games. I used to go to his apartment for breakfast. He would put a whole raw egg in coffee and give it to me. It usually broke when you swallowed it,but one day it didn't and I had a stomach ache all day. My mom wouldn't let me go there for breakfast anymore. In the summer he would take all four kids to Coney Island. Could you imagine that today. I would have a hard time with two kids let alone four. He didn't say hold my hand, or don't get lost or ,don't do this or don't do that. We knew instinctively that we better know where grandpa is. We did what we want. He would give us food and a towel. He also brought a leather sac of wine,with a spigot on it. When we came out of the water he would give us a gulp. No one watched us when we went near the water. My mom never knew any of this.One of my cousins ,Goo-Goo,was always getting lost. Think my grandpa worried, never. He knew there was a lost kids area under the boardwalk and that's where we always found her crying. He loved the cyclone loop de loop as he called it. With all this freedom I thought I could go to the movies by my self, I would always have to go with my brother. So one Saturday afternoon while I was tagging along with my Mom shopping I asked her if I could go to the movies. She said your brother is not here,so I pleaded with her and she looks at me and says I guess your old enough. She opens her handbag gives me a dime, and says come right home after the movie. I felt really big, my mom was letting me go to the movies by myself. I went to the Decatur movie house, they always had three features and gave you candy and a comic book for the price of admission,how things have changed. I remember the movie it was Beau Gueste with Gary cooper. and two westerns plus a serial. That was the beginning of my expanding world. Next it would be traveling to the ends of the city on the subway. We would go to the last stop of all the branches of the subway. One was 207 St in Manhattan,a world away. Its these milestones in your life that you remember and it starts with your mom having confidence in you.

Mom and the Parakeet

By Peter Mulieri
One day when I was about 18 I decided to get a parakeet and train it to talk. I went to the local pet store and bought the whole package to raise a parakeet. I told the pet store owner I wanted to teach it to talk. He said pick one out of one of the cages over there there's young ones in there,and said if you want to teach it to talk it first must be tame enough to get on your finger and stay on your shoulder, then you can teach it to talk. So with that advice I eagerly I picked out a blue, white and black parakeet and hurried home to train my parakeet. I named him after me "Pete the parakeet.It rhymes. After about a month I put my hand in the cage and he went on my finger. I'm assuming he's a male but I didn't know. I put him on my shoulder and I walked around the house with him. When we were eating one day I had him on my shoulder and he flew up and rested on a vine my mom had growing around the dining room window. He stayed there until we finished eating. I would put my finger near him and he would hop on it. Sometimes I would let him fly around the house ,but he flew into mirrors. I was always talking to him but he never answered. Then one day he says "Peter Its time to get up". My Mom called me every morning to get up in a loud voice. because I slept upstairs and she yelled up to me. She said it many times because I didn't get up so fast. After that I knew he could talk and I taught him a few more words,but it was my Mom who started it.

She turned 100 years old on Feb. 6.

The Herald-Mail ONLINE: "'Rhea Grove, formerly of Halfway, now resides at Fahrney-Keedy Memorial Home and is doing just fine. She turned 100 years old on Feb. 6.'
- Hagerstown ,MD"