…Susannah Jones of Brooklyn, New York, who turns 116 in July.
Talley bowled until she was 104 and still likes to catch fish. A daughter, Thelma Holloway, that her mother still has a sharp mind.
She was born in Montrose, Georgia, in 1899 and moved to Michigan in the 1930s. Talley’s husband died in 1988 at age 95.
So what’s this elderly woman’s secret to a long life? She says she thanks God for her life and says that it doesn’t really hurt that she doesn’t put any cream into her coffee or eat any butter.
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“Her No. 1 rule is to treat people how you want to be treated,” said godson Tyler Kinloch, 21, who fishes with her. “I definitely carry that with me every single day.”
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