Dec. 19, 2016 – Barton, WI – Clara Moll is a pip! On Sunday, Dec. 18 the life-long Barton gal turned 106 years old.
She celebrated with family and friends. Pizza, her favorite, was the supper of choice.
We prayed and passed a plate. 
Clara reminisced. She was prompted by her daughter Mary. “Remember in 1976 when you took advantage of the Greyhound Bus offer… 99 days for $99?”
Clara remembered. She traveled the U.S. and saw all her relatives. “Don’t get married,” she advised. “Travel.”
Meantime the group at the party tried to recollect where the Greyhound stops were in West Bend; the consensus was on S. Main Street in front of the Centrum building and outside George Webbs in the West Bend Plaza.
Clara touted “exercise” as the secret to longevity. She wore out roller skates and proclaimed she would “rather dance than eat.”
“Wiggle your feet when you’re sitting in a chair,” she said.
At 106 she said she feels fine. “I can read without glasses if it has to be,” she said. “But my hearing is going.”
A single-layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting is placed on the table.
Three separate candles that count out 1 – 0 – 6 stand mighty on top of the chocolate frosting. “Believe it or not that number 6 was a 5 last year,” said Mary.
A little wax melting helped morph it.
A rendition of Happy Birthday …. “and many more” filled the warm kitchen of the old farmhouse on Salisbury Road in Barton.
Black and white photo courtesy Fuzzy Dunkel.
What an inspiration my Aunt Clara has been. She lives each day to the fullest, has been kind to all she has meet, and has faith in the Lord! She continues to impart wisdom even to this day when she turned 106!!