Anna Danforth prepares to celebrate her 101st birthday on January 4th, 1939 at the nursing home of Mr. and Mrs. Alf Rodahl at 1624 So. 9th St. Ms. Danforth, Tacoma's oldest woman, wears an apron and shawl and sits next to a Zenith floor model radio. She was born in Kentington Michigan on Jan. 4th, 1838. She married 20 years later in Grand Rapids. Her husband, who operated a sawmill, died 21 years ago in Chehalis. The mother of five sons, she is active and the possessor of a rollicking, albeit dry, sense of humor. (T. Times, 1/4/1939, p. 3)

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