{"id":123436,"date":"2023-10-06T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123436"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:08:20","slug":"northampton-countys-annual-centenarian-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123436","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County\u2019s Annual Centenarian Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 5th, the Area Agency on Aging Advisory Board held its Centenarian Luncheon at the Green Pond Country Club. Thirty-one Northampton County residents, ages 100 to 110, attended with their family and friends and enjoyed lunch and entertainment by the\u00a0<em>Lehigh Valley Sweet Adelines<\/em>. County Executive Lamont G. McClure joined the celebration and presented proclamations to all Centenarians in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The Centenarian Luncheon is an annual event to honor Northampton County residents who are 100 years of age or older. The Centenarians who celebrated this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Aubrey Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Eleanor Burke<\/li>\n<li>Dorothea Butler<\/li>\n<li>William Diehl<\/li>\n<li>Shirley Eberhardt<\/li>\n<li>Pearl Eberts<\/li>\n<li>Theresa Esposito<\/li>\n<li>Elsie Frey<\/li>\n<li>Alois Groegler<\/li>\n<li>Mary Harris<\/li>\n<li>Rita Higgins-Cramer<\/li>\n<li>Marie Houle<\/li>\n<li>Mary Hontz<\/li>\n<li>Rita Huttie<\/li>\n<li>Orphia Jelinek<\/li>\n<li>Donald Mansfield Jones<\/li>\n<li>Rose Knesz<\/li>\n<li>Dorothea Kromer<\/li>\n<li>Ollie Lawson<\/li>\n<li>Gene Luff<\/li>\n<li>Grace Miles<\/li>\n<li>Alice Moll<\/li>\n<li>Meryl Reiss<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Saff<\/li>\n<li>Edna Scott<\/li>\n<li>Edna Spevak<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Tresslar<\/li>\n<li>Charles Volpe<\/li>\n<li>Robert Wasser<\/li>\n<li>Betty Younkin<\/li>\n<li>Myra Zoccola<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123437 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/70q.ab7.mytemp.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBrittney Waylen<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration &amp; Public Information Officer<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 5th, the Area Agency on Aging Advisory Board held its Centenarian Luncheon at the Green Pond Country Club. Thirty-one Northampton County residents, ages 100 to 110, attended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County\u2019s Annual Centenarian Celebration<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Centenarian-lunch.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}