Irene LaFrance lives a simple life that may have contributed to her longevity.
LaFrance celebrated her 105th birthday at the Delta Conference Centre on Saturday.
91裸聊视频淲hen you say simple life now a lot of people don91裸聊视频檛 know what it means,91裸聊视频� she chuckled. 91裸聊视频淚 raised a big family and I was doing all the work, the baking91裸聊视频t was a very simple life on the farm, milking cows and taking care of the family.91裸聊视频�
Lafrance grew up on her father91裸聊视频檚 farm in northern Alberta and was the oldest of 12 children.
Times were different then, she cooked, cleaned and helped her family do chores, baking bread once or twice a week on the farm in LaFond. Gardening was a pastime she continued until she was 97.
91裸聊视频淪he always made her food from scratch,91裸聊视频� said daughter Michelle LaFrance, adding Irene was living by herself at 97.
Irene married her husband, Charles LaFrance on Oct. 28, 1937, and had 10 children. They left the farm in 1956, which she said was a change for her afterward.
91裸聊视频淣ow you know, the farms are not the same. Of course, my parents were farmers and that91裸聊视频檚 what it was,91裸聊视频� said Irene.
In her lifetime, she has lived through two world wars, and vast changes in technology. But she91裸聊视频檚 always been someone who takes life as it comes.
91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檓 kind of a person who goes with the times I91裸聊视频檓 a simple person so I was always taking life as it came91裸聊视频� I91裸聊视频檓 not one to judge life.91裸聊视频�
She remembers listening to the household91裸聊视频檚 first radio. Her favourites were the French stations.
91裸聊视频淚 was French when all that was happening. Eventually, I had to learn English and I had the hardest time.91裸聊视频� Irene learned English in her 50s, as her father was from Quebec.
91裸聊视频淭hat91裸聊视频檚 when we started mixing with the English people, my husband knew English,91裸聊视频� she said. 91裸聊视频淏ut me, it took me a while to catch on.91裸聊视频�
With the times of television, she took no interest, as there was 91裸聊视频渨ork to do in the house,91裸聊视频� she said.
Irene said moving from place to place was difficult. Her husband wanted to leave Alberta so they gave up the farm and spent time on Vancouver Island before moving to Kelowna in the 1970s.
91裸聊视频淚 remember the first time we moved to Kelowna and there were orchards everywhere,91裸聊视频� said daughter Michelle. 91裸聊视频淲e used to come here for holidays from Alberta when we were young. Dad thought it91裸聊视频檇 be nice and warm.91裸聊视频�
Irene admits her memory isn91裸聊视频檛 as good as it used to be, sitting with a quiet demeanor. She never drove a car, taking her scooter out for coffee, and spent her time knitting and crocheting until recently.
Michelle said she was always quite humble.
91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檓 not a person for big parties,91裸聊视频� said Irene.
Her birthday party had guests from across B.C. and a few relatives from the U.S. to make up 120 attendees. Irene sat and greeted each one by the door.
91裸聊视频�(I get to) see the families live far away and I don91裸聊视频檛 see them that often, a lot of them I might not recognize.91裸聊视频�
Irene was born on April 13, 1912, a day before the sinking of the Titanic.
Irene has been living in the Missionwood Retirement Resort for the past six years, spending her time reading and completing crosswords.
